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For this exhibition, the German filmmaker and writer Alexander Kluge will present a multi-screen video installation alongside a selection of his writings. Featuring some of Kluge鈥檚 characteristic montage films, this installation will be exhibited in dialogue with twenty drawings by Georg Baselitz, which have never been shown before, and two new paintings by Anselm Kiefer. Having shared a deep intellectual affinity with both of these artists for many years, Alexander Kluge pays them a cinematic homage which engages and further extends the intersection between their individual practices.

In both his writings and films, Alexander Kluge brings together disparate elements from the real world, filling the gaps with fiction, then cutting and pasting them together. He approaches the world as an archeologist, exhuming various fragments and then incorporating them in the open structure of his films. In his unpredictable cinematic collage he brings together paintings, photographs, and archival materials. Taking inspiration from silent film, Kluge uses intertitles as a means of commentary. By marrying various images, sounds, and texts, the artist offers a kaleidoscopic vision of the various undercurrents which have traversed our cultural history, inviting the viewer to make unexpected associations. 

Following from the French translation of Alexander Kluge鈥檚 Chronique des sentiments (2016), the French philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman wrote in Le Monde: 鈥楲ike Goethe, Alexander Kluge investigates as an archeologist, talking to people, taking samples, excavating archives with the patience of a philologist. Though he does not, like Goethe, work from a drawings notebook and an acquarella box, but with a camera: he makes an image out of everything he reads, and makes literature out of all he sees or glimpses into. Alexander Kluge, a true romantic, thinks that even his most outlandish associations of ideas can document an objective viewpoint of the world.鈥�