... As in his "Sublime Paintings", in the "Crater" the banality of industrially prefabricated materials serves to make certain the imagined notion of the sublime contains that rupture without which any Romantic construct of sublime landscape painting would inevitably disintegrate into kitsch. At the same time, it is this aggressive statement in favor of superficiality, of an aesthetic of the beautiful appearance, such as Nietzsche also once called for, that gives Rappenecker's reflections the depth and quality that enable them to indeed be viewed as a contemporary formulation of the sublime. ...