GEORG BASELITZ – YEARS LATER
2020-06-15This exhibition is focused on a set of thirteen large oil paintings that Baselitz made using a “contact-printing” technique related to the one applied in his series, What if… (2019), which was exhibited at Gagosian San Francisco earlier this year. To create each new black-and-gold painting he uses a stencil to render inverted figures on blank canvas, painting just the panel’s background to generate bold negative silhouettes. Against this ground he presses a black canvas, lifting this second support to produce an image distinguished by a slightly softer look than those made more directly. The hybrid result not only stresses medium over image, but is also distinguished by an element of unpredictability that bespeaks freedom and vitality. In a single painting in pink, the figures are rendered without a stencil as positive images.
Opposite – Madame Demoisielle weit weg von der Küste, 2019
Exhibition runs through to August 8th, 2020
Gagosian
7/F Pedder Building
12 Pedder Street
Central
Hong Kong
