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'Atalanta fugiens'
Materials: marble/lead<.font>
Height: 90cm
Price: €26.000,-
The foundations
for the period '88-'92, in which alchemy was his main source of
inspiration, Rietmeijer found in a book written by Michael Maier.
He had taken that book with him on a trip to Terschelling and,
as he read, the inspiration and manner of working of the old alchemists
gripped him. Alchemy's ideal, the predecessor of our modern, scientific
chemistry, was - alongside the search for the secret of eternal
youth - the transmutation of base metals into precious metals....
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