Feet on the Head, by Beatrice Brandini
Georg Baselitz: Yellow Leg
From March 25 to September 13 2027, the Museo Novecento in Florence presents BASELITZ. AVANTI!, an exhibition dedicated to Georg Baselitz, an undisputed protagonist of contemporary art, created in collaboration with the artist’s studio.
Two views of the courtyard of the Museo del Novecento with the monumental sculpture 1965 by Georg Baselitz
The exhibition, curated by Sergio Risaliti in collaboration with Daniel Blau, brings together one hundred and seventy works, including works on paper, paintings, and sculptures, and recounts more than sixty years of activity by a multifaceted and “subversive” artist who, throughout his artistic career, sought to express himself through a new language, demolishing the patterns of reassuring and comfortable figurative painting.
Images from the press conference featuring Sergio Risaliti, Georg Baselitz’s son, Daniel Blau, and the Councilor for Culture of the City of Florence, Giovanni Bettarini.
Daniel Blau
The core of the exhibition is his graphic work, often overlooked but equally interesting, with 150 works on paper distributed across the museum’s three floors.
Georg Baselitz: Orangenesser V. The Orange Eater and Orangenesser III. The Orange Eater
Baselitz has always sought a dialogue between construction and destruction, between control and impulse, a bit like human nature, made of contradictions and staging, convention and instinct. His famous inverted figures are his way of communicating and suggesting another way of seeing things, another perspective. In a society that tells us and offers us an increasingly homogenized vision, a glossy and ever more perfect ideal of beauty, Baselitz’s art bursts onto the scene like a hurricane. It doesn’t want to be decorative or reassuring; it wants to destabilize and offer a restless and critical look at life and past history.
Glimpse from the exhibition BASELITZ. AVANTI! At the Museo Novecento in Florence
Raised in war-torn Germany, an aspect that profoundly influenced his work, Baselitz emphasizes man and his body, but they are not decorative and linear figures; they are “upside down” and seek to convey to us that humanity can fall and be wounded.
Georg Baselitz: Römischer Grub. Roman Salute and Dresden Women – Elke. Women of Dresden
Georg Baselitz: Dreibeiniger Akt. Three-Legged Nude and Sitzender. Seated Man
Baselitz has never adhered to any artistic movement; his hallmark has always been to avoid conformity, creating a style of painting that expresses the inadequacy of human beings, their solitude and fragility. Perhaps his freedom has allowed him not to waste creative energy, not to be nostalgic or banal, and to tell us that even in the worst of experiences, we must move forward and overcome the tragedy of life. Probably the best cure is the beauty of art, which Baselitz certainly learned and passed on to us all.
Glimpse from the BASELITZ. AVANTI! exhibition at the Museo del Novecento in Florence.
Geor Baselitz: Der Wikinger. The Viking
The Museo del Novecento is dedicating almost all of the rooms of the former Leopoldine Gallery to a single, large-scale monographic exhibition dedicated to Baselitz. Visit it because it’s an unmissable opportunity; you’re sure to be deeply enchanted.
Enjoy your life!
Beatrice