During the COVID-19 pandemic, many galleries around the world have closed due to poor sales, but recently the international gallery Thaddaeus Ropac announced the opening of its new space in Seoul in October, welcoming the opening exhibition “Hotel garni” by the famous German artist Georg Baselitz, marking the debut of the new space!
Thaddaeus Ropac gallery represents more than 60 globally renowned artists, including Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz, Gilbert & George, Adrian Ghenie, Antony Gormley, Robert Longo, Elizabeth Peyton, Daniel Richter, and others. The gallery currently has five exhibition spaces in Europe, utilizing the unique architecture of each space to hold around 40 diverse exhibitions annually, aiming to create different viewing experiences for art enthusiasts.
And coinciding with the opening of the Seoul space, in order to mark the occasion, Georg Baselitz will showcase 12 oil paintings and 12 sketches at the opening exhibition, all of which have never been publicly displayed before. In his latest series of works, he focuses on depicting large oil paintings based on his wife Elke. As one of the most important contemporary artists of the 20th century, Baselitz has established a new image for German art in the second half of the 20th century and has had a profound impact on the international art world since 1960. This exhibition has become a hot topic in the art world.
The artist continues to explore existentialist ideas, using a variety of rich expressive techniques and subjective feelings to project the desire for self-expression through painting. In the transition of colors, it is not difficult to see the influence of German Expressionism, French Art Informel, and American abstract painting on him. In addition, Baselitz has always insisted on the inverted composition, this novel expressive technique not only empties the form of the content of the painting, but also allows the work to oscillate between abstraction and figuration.
Throughout his sixty-year artistic career, the artist has used almost every type of creative medium, and his work has proven his constant desire for innovation. The pieces specially created for the Thaddaeus Ropac gallery are truly eye-catching, so art enthusiasts should keep an eye out for the latest updates from this gallery.
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