The painting "Metropolis" consists of three parts (triptych) and depicts the excessive way of life in the 1920ies. In the right part of the triptych the woman's clothings are transformed into the female genitalia. The coat symbolizes the inner labia, the fox fur assumes the shape of the vaginal labia. The woman's right hand touches her coat in the form of vaginal labia intensifying thus the tension of the visualized scene. Does the vagina devour everything? Are women pure objects of desire? Products in a consumer's world? Are men addicted to women because of their sexual drive?[1] There is no generally valid interpretation. For hundreds of years the woman's vulva has been a taboo, hidden in secrecy and now, in the age of modern art, the vulva emerges from obscurity and is artistically presented in a quite natural way.

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(Translation: K. Seifter)