Georg Baselitz. Heroes and New Types, Moderna Museet, Novemeber 11 – February 19, 2017
Stockholm’s Moderna Museet or modern art museum is offering an autumnal encounter with two great German artists – 78-year-old painter, sculptor and graphic artist Georg Baselitz and 62-year-old sculptor Thomas Schütte.
Baselitz has been called both a neo-expressionist and a postmodernist. He is among the most admired living contemporary artists and is known for his profound influence on the development of figurative painting. It’s impossible to confuse his work with that of any other painter, as the world that he paints is quite literally turned upside down. The exhibition at the Moderna Museet is devoted to two early series, Heroes and New Types, painted between 1965 and 1966. They reflect a revised view of the concept of heroism in the aftermath of the Second World War, as well as identity and the then 27-year-old artist’s relationship to society.
Thomas Schütte’s art also focuses on today’s tumultuous and distorted world. His works often join disturbingly gloomy images with a sense of irony, posing provocative questions but providing no answers. He experiments with scale, transforming doll figures into giants. United Enemies, the Thomas Schütte retrospective at the Moderna Museet covers the last two decades of the artist’s career. One of his gigantic sculptures, the four-metre-high Valter Staat (2010), stands at the entrance of the museum, watching over those who have come to see the exhibition. The distant and cold-blooded bronze figure is the artist’s meditation on the state, power and personality – on the weaknesses and Achilles’ heels of authority figures and their place in history. Schütte’s work consists of series; he likes to return and develop certain themes, working with different shapes and materials.
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Georg Baselitz, The New Type, 1966 © Georg Baselitz 2016. Foto: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. Donation: Franz Dahlem. Georg Baselitz, Falle, 1966 © Georg Baselitz 2016
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