Dr. Mueller's Sex Shop oder So Stel'ich Mir die Liebe Vor (portfolio)

"In 'Dr. Mõller's Sex-Shop oder So stell ich mir die Liebe vor' (Dr. Mõller's Sex Shop or That's what I think love should be) and 'Grõße vom Vatikan' (Regards from the Vatican), Klauke does not just dramatise his own roles and sexual fantasies but also those of other people. For these works, he bought a supply of the kind of porno shop stimulants which are intended to revive the defunct eroticism of their owners; in Klauke's dramatisation, however, this artificial theatre of surrogates becomes transformed into an absurd fantasy of rubber penises and plastic dolls which appear to take control of the human figure instead of serving him. Klauke highlights these spare parts of an empty life, these 'venus in fragments' both in order to lay bear the lie of pornography and to reveal in his work the broad spectrum of eroticism in general." (H. Dickel, 'Masquerades of Identity. Jõrgen Klauke's 'Male Fantasies', in: I. Goetz (ed.), 'Jõrgen Klauke - Cindy Sherman', Munich 1994, p. 23.)