Literature: Cordula Güdemann. Maskland. Maskland, Galerie der Kreissparkasse Esslingen-Nürtingen (ed.), Berlin 2011, ill. p. 11

Anyone reading the title of Cordula Güdemann's small-format gouache is tempted to think of Samuel Beckett's absurd play "Waiting for Godot" - especially since the scene, which borders on the grotesque, could well function as a stage set for it. The painter alienates the reference, however, through the "Song for Godot", for which five protagonists - as well as an oversized shadow - are called onto the scene. Whether the sung-about is dematerialized in the central little cloud or can be seen in the shadow figure at the bottom left (which could also come from the viewer) remains to be seen. The actual theme is anyway rather an ironic-critical bow to the possible cult with star tenors, who in the staged competition - each on its own clod - give their song to the best, for whom ever: Godot?