Exhibition18 Dec 2006 – 17 Feb 2007
Sigmar Polke: Music from an Unknown Source
Music from an Unknown Source brings together a series of 40 gouaches by Sigmar Polke from 1996. RMIT Gallery presents Sigmar Polke:…
Georg Baselitz, 'Italienischer Kopf' (1985/89).
Image courtesy of Institut fur Auslandsbeziehungen
Georg Baselitz
Georg Baselitz, Printed Works 1965-1992
An artist once expelled from an East German art school for ‘socio-political immaturity’ is the focus of this exhibition.
“Reality is the picture. It is definitely not IN the picture.” – Georg Baselitz
This exhibition of 117 original prints includes over eighty works on paper, including woodcuts, engravings, linocuts and drypoint etchings. Baselitz uses colour and form to deconstruct pictorial conventions.
Isolation and fragmentation have always been key themes in Baselitz’s works, which are instantly recognizable for usually having their subjects placed upside-down. The artist adopted this technique in the late 1960s as a way of overcoming the representational nature of his work whilst not becoming abstract.
Brought by the Goethe Institute and the Institute of Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa)
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