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So there is an anachronism in the use of these redundant industrial objects that constitute German sculptor Meuser's oeuvre. To use the word “nostalgic” would be a misnomer but these crushed and twisted relics that have lost their function originate in a period when heat was generated in great furnaces rather than by thousands of processors in server bunkers.

In the presence of his work it is perhaps surprising that Meuser was a student of Joseph Beuys at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He developed his abstract constructivist vocabulary particularly in the context of the work of older …