Catalog of an exhibition at Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, 1. October-14 November 2015. Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
In the 1960s, Georg Baselitz emerged as a pioneer of German Neo-Expressionist painting. His work evokes disquieting subjects rendered feverishly as a means of confronting the realities of the modern age and explores what it is to be German and a German artist in a postwar world. In the late 1970s his iconic 'upside-down' paintings, in which bodies, landscapes, and buildings are inverted within the picture plane, ignoring the realities of the physical world, make obvious the artifice of painting. Drawing upon a dynamic and myriad pool of influences, including art of the Mannerist period, African sculptures, and Soviet era illustration art, Baselitz developed a distinct painting language. The book accompanying the exhibition at CFA contains a series of new works and underlines the powerful nature of the way the artist works. Exhibition: CFA Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany (01.10. -14.11.2015).
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