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Georg Baselitz

Georg Baselitz

Georg Baselitz

Georg Baselitz - Oberon -

Georg Baselits as a sculptor

In 2010-2011 The Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris organised an exhibition of the sculptures of Georg Baselitz. This retrospective interpretation of one facet of the German artist – initially a painter and engraver – will include almost his entire sculptural output, covering a period of more than thirty years. Few of these works have been shown in France.

Forty painted wood pieces dating from 1979 to 2010 illustrate the itinerary of an artist who has made a powerful contribution to the language of contemporary sculpture.

Given the scale of his sculptures in wood, Baselitz’s tools were the chainsaw and the axe, an approach that allowed the expression of a radicalism different from that of his canvases. Whereas the inverting of the figure in his painting gave him “the freedom to really confront painterly problems”, Baselitz saw sculpture as “the shortest path” to dealing with fundamental issues.

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Georg Baselitz (Germany b. 1938)
Falle [Trap] (1966) 
oil on canvas 162.6 x 130.2 cm

 GEORG BASELITZ, A MODERN PAINTER (REMIX), 2007,  (AFTER HIS A MODERN PAINTER 1966)