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160309: Museum der Moderne Salzburg Mönchsberg: Georg Baselitz - Paintings and Sculptures 1960 - 2008
Museum der Moderne Salzburg Mönchsberg: Georg Baselitz - Paintings and Sculptures 1960 - 2008
Upside down, you’re turning me
Recently declared dead, painting seems to again boom on the freely floating funfair of art, kitsch, and junk. A good example is Georg Baselitz, for whom the Museum der Moderne in Salzburg devoted the first retrospective in Austria since 1992. With his „upside down“ stratagem, which made him famous in the 60s, Baselitz, who was born 1938 as Hans-Georg Kern in the former GDR, has been following a blatant strategy (referred to as „methods“ by the artist). He founds the most indecorous as his personal branding.
The Salzburg-retrospective includes 54 paintings and five wooden sculptures. At first his works present themselves as a colorful climate of the smelly and musty German post-war reality, with occasional excursions to art and its history. With Fragonard-like „Rapidité“, shreds of his own early and scandal history surface from the basics of painting – the white canvas – to once again withdraw themselves with a new turn. Painting as a gesture. And concept. Vice versa.
Stephan Maier
Museum der Moderne Salzburg Mönchsberg
5020 Salzburg, Möchnsberg 22, until 21.06.09
www.museumdermoderne.at
Mehr Texte von translated and summarized by: Liz Wollner-Grandville
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160309
Museum der Moderne Salzburg Mönchsberg
5020 Salzburg, Mönchsberg 32
Tel: +43 / 662 / 84 22 20-403, Fax: +43 / 662 / 84 22 20-700
Email: info@mdmsalzburg.at
http://www.museumdermoderne.at
Öffnungszeiten: täglich 10-18 h, Mi 10-20 h
Museum der Moderne Salzburg Mönchsberg
5020 Salzburg, Mönchsberg 32
Tel: +43 / 662 / 84 22 20-403, Fax: +43 / 662 / 84 22 20-700
Email: info@mdmsalzburg.at
http://www.museumdermoderne.at
Öffnungszeiten: täglich 10-18 h, Mi 10-20 h
