72. GEORG BASELITZ Graphic Art 1965-1992,
9 September - 30 October 1994
The upper floor of the Sara Hildén Art Museum showed
graphic art made by the German painter, sculptor and graphic artist Georg
Baselitz (b. 1938 Sachsen, Germany).
The collection had been selected by director René
Block from the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (IFA) in Stuttgart.
The collection was shown for the first time in the Sara Hildén
Art Museum in Tampere.
Georg Baselitz is one of the most esteemed German contemporary artists. The public knows him perhaps best as a painter whose figures
are always depicted upside down. With this simple solution and by using
traditional techniques and familiar motifs, Baselitz has been able to
give his works exceptional power and appeal: the viewer suddenly starts
to wonder which way things should be so that they would not be upside
down. At the same time, the works offer a new perspective to the relationship
between representative and abstract art.
Baselitz started as a painter, but he has also made metal
graphic works, woodcuts and linocuts since 1963. The distinction between
his paintings and graphic works is often fuzzy. Sometimes he has added
paint to a print afterwards, making the work one of a kind.
The 81 works in the exhibition gave a comprehensive cross-section
of Baselitz's production of graphic art from 1965-92. Metal graphic
works,
woodcuts and linocuts were also displayed, both as individual works and
in series.
The aim of the selection was to provide insight into Baselitz's
art in terms of content, composition and technique. Baselitz has developed
his graphic art together with his paintings and sculptures. This reflects
the consistency of his artistic development. It also makes his strict
compositional solutions more familiar and demonstrates the interaction
between the planned and the spontaneous, which labels Baselitz's entire
production as well as the search for an absolute autonomy in his works.
Baselitz uses the same themes in his graphic works as
in his paintings, namely figures, animals, still lifes and trees.
Level A on the lower floor showed German graphic art from
the museum's own collection. Levels B and C presented some of the main
works from the collection.
Catalogue:
Georg Baselitz, Druckgrafik 1965-1992
1994, 135 pages
Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen
Not on sale
Georg Baselitz, Grafiikkaa vuosilta 1965-1992 (Text in Finnish)
1994, 20 pages
Sara Hildén Art Museum
Price FIM 10
3,416 visitors attended the exhibition.
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