Georg Baselitz's Heroes on display in Rome

by Redazione , published on 04/03/2017
Categories: Exhibitions / Disclaimer
The exhibition "Georg Baselitz. Heroes" dedicated to the eponymous cycle by German neo-expressionist Georg Baselitz, in Rome at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni.

A major exhibition dedicated to Georg Basel itz (pseudonym of Hans-Georg Rem, Kamenz, 1938), entitled Georg Baselitz. Heroes, which will run until June 18. The exhibition delves into a peculiar moment in the production of this important neo-expressionist artist (among the greatest of the contemporary German scene), namely the cycle of paintings known, precisely, as The Heroes.

This is a series of paintings made between 1965 and 1966 when the painter, in his early thirties, set himself the goal of analyzing the rhetoric of the hero in a negative light: the protagonists of his works are thus soldiers but also partisans and victims of the war that had ended 20 years earlier dying, desperate, worn down by fatigue, cloaked in an enormous sense of tragedy. “In the Heroes,” Max Hollein, curator of the exhibition with Daniela Lancioni, writes in the catalog, "reside the symbol of adolescence and the themes of pain, awareness of one’s guilt, rebellion and hope in a world conceived as foreign, wrong or mutilated. A series that is characterized, in essence, by anunderlying ambiguity that leads the viewer to question tragedy as a reason for grief but also as a hope for rebirth.

The exhibition, conceived by the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, was produced in collaboration with the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, the Modern Museet in Stockholm and the Guggenheim in Bilbao. For information: http://www.palazzoesposizioni.it/categorie/mostra-georg-baselitz-eroi

Source: press release

Image: Georg Baselitz, Rotgrüner / The Red-Green (1965; oil on canvas, 151 x 116 cm; Private collection. Copyright Georg Baselitz 2017).

Georg Baselitz's Heroes on display in Rome
Georg Baselitz's Heroes on display in Rome


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