Georg Baselitz 乔治·巴塞利兹 X-ray lila《紫色X光》, 2020

The two figures in X-ray lila (2020) form an abstracted double portrait of Georg Baselitz and his wife, Elke, who has been a constant presence in his imagery since the first upside-down portrait he painted of her in 1969. The Elke paintings constitute the largest single group of his portraits, in which the artist engages in the struggle of representation, the inescapability of subjectivity, and the representation of the self through a significant other. The two spectral figures emerge from the dark background – appearing, as the title suggests, like an X-ray image in which both bodies are reduced to their schematics.

在作品《紫色X光》（X-ray lila）（2020年）中，乔治·巴塞利兹以两个轮廓建构了自己 和妻子埃尔克（Elke）的抽象双人肖像，自1969年他为妻子画下第一幅上下颠倒的肖 像后，埃尔克就持续在他的绘画中出现。和埃尔克有关的画作系列，为乔治·巴塞利 兹肖像画中最主要的系列，艺术家从中研究如何对抗画作的再现性（representation） 、无法摆脱的主观性（subjectivity），以及透过重要他者对自身的表现。两个幽灵般 的人物从黑暗的背景中浮现 ── 正如作品标题暗示，看起来就像一张X光图像，将两 者的肉身简化成抽象的图形符号。