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october 06, 2021 - Centre Pompidou
Baselitz The retrospective
20 October 2021 – 7 March 2022
Gallery 1, level 6
Curated by Bernard Blistène and in association with the artist, the Centre Pompidou presents ‘Baselitz – The Retrospective’, in Gallery 1.
This is the first all-encompassing exhibition of the German artist born in 1938. Six decades of creation are presented along a chronological path highlighting the key periods in the artist’s work. From his initial paintings to the Pandemonium Manifesto of the early 1960s, the Heroes series or the Fractures series of upside-down motifs, begun in 1969, the exhibition also showcases successive ensembles of works in which Baselitz experimented with new pictorial techniques. Various forms of aesthetics unfold, fuelled by references to art history and Baselitz’s intimate knowledge of the work of many artists, such as Edvard Munch, Otto Dix and Willem de Kooning. The exhibition also features his Russian paintings and self-reflective works, Remix and Time.
Curator Bernard Blistène in collaboration with Pamela Sticht, Chief adviser on Scientific coordination at the Musée national d’art moderne Centre Pompidou 2 Unclassifiable, vacillating between figuration, abstraction and a conceptual approach, Georg Baselitz claims to paint images that have yet to exist and to unearth that which has been relegated to the past: ‘I was born amid an order destroyed, in a landscape of ruins, a people in ruins, a society in ruins. And I didn’t want to establish a new order. I had seen more than enough of so-called orders. I had to question everything, I had to become ‘naive’ again, to start over. I have neither the sensitivity nor the education or philosophy of the Italian Mannerists. But I am a mannerist in the sense that I deform things. I am brutal, naive and Gothic.’
Intimately linked to the artist’s experience and imagination, Georg Baselitz’s powerful work testifies to the complexity of life as an artist in post-war Germany and reveals his endlessly renewed questionings; on the possibilities of representing his memories, variations in technique and traditional motifs of painting, aesthetic forms developed over the course of art history, and the formalisms dictated and conveyed by the various political and aesthetic regimes of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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