Film screening: Moi, Georg Baselitz Directed by Heinz Peter Schwerfel
Join us at Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Pantin on Saturday 10 May at 4pm for a screening of the documentary film Moi, Georg Baselitz, directed by Heinz Peter Schwerfel.
For more than 30 years, Heinz Peter Schwerfel has been observing Georg Baselitz through interviews and studio visits. In Moi, Georg Baselitz, the artist shares explanations of his own work, from his rejection of the abstract painting of the 1950s to his upside-down paintings and the origins of his sculpture. Official selection: Festival International du Film sur l'Art / ArtFifa - 2020.
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Georg Baselitz
Ein Bein von Manet aus Paris
Ein Bein von Manet aus Paris is on view at Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Pantin until 26 July 2025. The exhibition presents monumental paintings, intimate works on paper and a bronze sculpture created by Georg Baselitz over the course of the last year. The paintings on view represent a continuation of the now 87-year-old artist's perpetual grapple with the conventions of portraiture, returning to the two subjects who have marked his seven decades of artistic production more than any other: himself and his wife, Elke. Working on the floor, the artist used a walking frame to navigate the canvases, turning the tangle of lines made by its wheels in the paint into a central compositional element. Demonstrating this novel mark-making technique, the new paintings bear witness to Baselitz's unrelenting impulse to experiment. On Saturdays throughout May and June, screenings of documentary films on artists represented by the gallery will be held in the exhibition.
