until Monday April 21 2014

Kirchner Museum Davos
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Platz Promenade 82
-7270 Davos
Switzerland

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The exhibition "Georg Baselitz: A Visit with Ernst Ludwig" brings together paintings, sculptures and drawings from different creative periods from 1980 to the present day.

The gesture of repetition that Baselitz executes in his remix images does not result in a copy, but is rather the portrayal of an interaction with his own past. However, the new works also arise from the rules or »handicaps« that Baselitz imposes on himself. The inner necessity that caused him to turn the motif upside down and continue to paint in reverse has recently led to a new »artistic trick«.

The painter of the remix images works the canvas on the floor – without being able to survey the large format as a whole – while holding a photograph or other model in his left hand. Colour reproductions are no longer used as such, but are previously processed into negatives on the computer. The negative is a form of visual interference, and gives the figurative painting of Georg Baselitz a new, playful autonomy.