Dimensions: image: 283 x 179 mm mount: 561 x 409 x 4 mm
Copyright: © Georg Baselitz | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: This untitled drawing by Georg Baselitz is a whirlwind of lines. It feels frantic, almost like a memory struggling to surface. What do you see in it? Curator: I see a raw, immediate expression, a kind of primal scream rendered in ink. The figures, seemingly inverted, tap into a deep well of anxiety and perhaps even a distorted reflection of societal upheaval. The inversion is not just a visual trick, but a disruption of our expected world order. Does that resonate with you? Editor: It does! It’s like the image is fighting against itself, which makes it so compelling. Thanks, that was really insightful. Curator: My pleasure. Considering cultural memory, it makes us question which memories we choose to invert or suppress.
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Baselitz’s vigorous and expressive style, influenced by the drawing and paintings of the mentally ill, often represents the body as a site of anxiety. This series of prints show a female figure crouching and twisted. The body is fragmented: in some works, the head is cropped, while others feature only isolated limbs. The hatched and scored quality adds to the sense of raw spontaneity and even violence. Many of the prints include flowers and vegetation which, with the use of greens and browns, suggest wild nature and fertility. Gallery label, July 2015