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Georg Baselitz |
Written 30 January |
Saturday 24 April, 10:00Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, 75003 [map]Georg Baselitz
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac presents an exhibition of
Georg Baselitz’s recent monumental sculptures, a new series of striking paintings, as well as works on paper.
Baselitz’s first sculpture, Modell für eine Skulptur (Model for a Sculpture) dates from 1979 and was shown at the 1980 Venice Biennale. As with his paintings, his forceful sculptures reject all forms of harmony and symmetry in favor of inventiveness visible through elemental forms and jagged lines.
In conjunction with these sculptures, six new paintings of inverted nude figures, portrayed headless, painted on a black background with a contrasting palette of pink, orange, blue, green and white, will be exhibited.
Twenty new watercolours will be displayed on the first floor of the gallery.
Georg Baselitz was born Hans-Georg Kern in 1938 in Deutschbaselitz, Saxony. From the beginning, his work has been marked by a visceral reaction to human trauma and tragedy, particularly with relation to German history. Baselitz was also heavily influenced by “Art Brut,” by the writings and drawings of
Antonin Artaud and by African sculpture.
| What: | Georg Baselitz |
| When: | Saturday 24 April, 10:00 |
| Where: | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, 7 Rue Debelleyme 75003 [map] |
| Transport: | Filles Du Calvaire |
| Cost: | 0EUR |
| Phone: | 01 42 72 99 00 |
| Email: | galerie@ropac.net |
| Web: | www.ropac.net |
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