게오르그 바젤리츠 : adler barfuß

The exhibition adler barfuß at Thaddaeus Ropac Seoul presents works from a new series of paintings and ink drawings featuring eagles, a motif that has resurfaced in Georg Baselitz’s oeuvre throughout his life. Since the 1960s, Baselitz has consistently renewed his practice through innovative formal developments, often responding to art history and his own extensive oeuvre.

After the artist’s first-ever solo exhibition in Korea at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea in 2007, Baselitz’s works were shown at Thaddaeus Ropac Seoul in 2021 for the gallery’s inaugural exhibition. This exhibition of new works is now the third solo presentation of the artist’s work in Korea.

Depicted in tactile, multicoloured impasto, the works feature eagles rendered in gestural strokes, larger than life, hovering in an undefined space. Seemingly weightless, the eagles seem to float against backgrounds of varying shades of blue, evoking the tones found in the portraits of Lucas Cranach the Elder or in Picasso’s surrealist beach paintings of the late 1920s and 1930s.

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