Crazy Daisy π
Crazy Daisy, 2017
BIRGIT DIEKER
"Crazy Daisy" is a work by the artist Birgit Dieker. The 5.5 meter-high rocket is fitted closely with fragmented mannequins and a metal hood with an antenna tip.
Outstretched legs support the base. Dieker used figures from various decades.
They represent different ideals of beauty and attractiveness. Disassembled and rearranged, they encircle the explosive body of this rocket.
Technology and machines are often advertised or linked with pornographic images. "Crazy Daisy" can be understood as an ironic reference to the fact that soldiers often give combat aircraft and missiles female names. Especially US fighter pilots have decorated the tops of their aircrafts with pinup girls since theSecond World War. Since then, men have described female bodies with terms like Second World War. Since then, men have described female bodies with terms like sex bomb, or the German terms meaning grenade or calibre.
The "legs" of the "Crazy Daisy" have an assistive function, but at the same time they replicate mannequin poses. Can the consumerism of the western world be understood in a metaphorical sense as an explosive device, where the destructive power lies within? The rocket and mannequins represent a picture of perfection with destructive power.
The shape of "Crazy Daisy" is reminiscent of the British aerial bomb "Tallboy".
When Dieker researched for her work at the MHM, she was also interested in the bombs and rockets from the collection, such as the first functional large liquid propellant rocket "V2". It was undergoing development in the German Reich since 1939. The so-called "retaliatory weapon 2" or "V2" flew with a top speed of 550 kilometres per hour. Within minutes, it could reach faraway targets. More than 8,000 people died as a result of V2 attacks, most of them in London and Antwerp.
Concentration camp prisoners and forced labourers were forced to produce the V2 under inhumane conditions. Presumably more than 16,000 of them died.
The V2 was co-developed in Dresden and is a central exhibit of the permanent exhibition of the MHM, where Dieker researched for her work.
Crazy Daisy π
Crazy Daisy, 2017
BIRGIT DIEKER
"Crazy Daisy" is a work by the artist Birgit Dieker. The 5.5 meter-high rocket is fitted closely with fragmented mannequins and a metal hood with an antenna tip.
Outstretched legs support the base. Dieker used figures from various decades.
They represent different ideals of beauty and attractiveness. Disassembled and rearranged, they encircle the explosive body of this rocket.
Technology and machines are often advertised or linked with pornographic images. "Crazy Daisy" can be understood as an ironic reference to the fact that soldiers often give combat aircraft and missiles female names. Especially US fighter pilots have decorated the tops of their aircrafts with pinup girls since theSecond World War. Since then, men have described female bodies with terms like Second World War. Since then, men have described female bodies with terms like sex bomb, or the German terms meaning grenade or calibre.
The "legs" of the "Crazy Daisy" have an assistive function, but at the same time they replicate mannequin poses. Can the consumerism of the western world be understood in a metaphorical sense as an explosive device, where the destructive power lies within? The rocket and mannequins represent a picture of perfection with destructive power.
The shape of "Crazy Daisy" is reminiscent of the British aerial bomb "Tallboy".
When Dieker researched for her work at the MHM, she was also interested in the bombs and rockets from the collection, such as the first functional large liquid propellant rocket "V2". It was undergoing development in the German Reich since 1939. The so-called "retaliatory weapon 2" or "V2" flew with a top speed of 550 kilometres per hour. Within minutes, it could reach faraway targets. More than 8,000 people died as a result of V2 attacks, most of them in London and Antwerp.
Concentration camp prisoners and forced labourers were forced to produce the V2 under inhumane conditions. Presumably more than 16,000 of them died.
The V2 was co-developed in Dresden and is a central exhibit of the permanent exhibition of the MHM, where Dieker researched for her work.