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Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is pleased to present the upcoming exhibition that will bring together works by contemporary artists and juxtapose them either with works by other artists or with other cultural references that have made an impact on their oeuvre. Some of the works being compared to those of the Western Contemporary artists' are of inestimable value (for example woodcuts by Kitagawa Utamaro and Katsushika Hokusai), while quite normal everyday objects have also been included; a pair of boots (with Not Vital), or a computer printout from the Internet selected by Jonathan Meese. Georg Baselitz uses his own internationally renowned African collection as an important reference, particularly evident in his work of the 1980s. Baselitz's experiences also flow into more recent works, which through their colour, form, and semiotics paraphrase the topoi of African sculptures. Stephan Balkenhol also collects works of African and other non-European origin. He is known for his archaic, roughly carved wooden sculptures and will be showing a new work embodying the spirit of a 3000-year-old object found in an Egyptian grave, which he places next to his sculpture. Heinz Frank's work, H枚rst du die Stille deiner Hand (Do you hear the silence of your hand) shows quite a different source of inspiration. Although he is also interested in the materiality and formal aesthetics of Egyptian art, he is primarily influenced by texts on Egypt. A variety of European and non-European cultures are important inspiration for Not Vital. He alternates between living in the Swiss Engadin, New York, Lucca (Italy), Agadez (West Africa), and China. Since the 1980s, Vital's work has been heavily influenced by the different cultures of these places as well as by that of South-East Asia, where he has stayed for a number of prolonged periods. The materiality of his work specifically draws on the originals from Africa and Asia. Works by Wolfgang Laib 鈥� who lives partly in his home region Baden-W眉rttemberg and partly in India 鈥� are compared with miniature paintings from India; here the colour canon from milky rice white to saffron red is arranged in archaic simplicity. The arrangement of cylindrical heaps in a row suffices to evoke associations with Indian models.