Portraits
Skarstedt is pleased to announce Portraits, an exhibition of paintings, photographs, and sculptures by Georg Baselitz, George Condo, John Currin, Eric Fischl, Martin Kippenberger, Robert Mapplethorpe, Richard Prince, David Salle, Cindy Sherman, and Andy Warhol. Spanning over five decades, the works in this exhibition demonstrate the versatility of portraiture and the way in which contemporary artists have utilized the traditional genre to speak on identity, self-expression, transformation, and the human psyche.
The mythic figure of the hunter in Georg Baselitz鈥檚 1966 painting stands proudly atop a doglike creature 鈥� his heroic stance is fragmented, speaking on the forever destabilized post-war German culture. The hardened and stoic gaze is intensified through the artist鈥檚 heavy brushwork and subverted picture plane.
With a highly conceptual and painterly vision, Martin Kippenberger鈥檚 1984 suite of nine portraits gathers an unlikely cast of characters. John Lennon鈥檚 son dressed as a woman, Joseph Beuy鈥檚 mother, John Holmes, and a policeman create a spectrum of celebrity, pornography, music, politics, and fine art. Kippenberger taps into the elements of self-expression and entangles autobiographical, cultural, and historic references. It is a compendium which reflects Kippenberger鈥檚 own artistic ego and self-image.
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Skarstedt is pleased to announce Portraits, an exhibition of paintings, photographs, and sculptures by Georg Baselitz, George Condo, John Currin, Eric Fischl, Martin Kippenberger, Robert Mapplethorpe, Richard Prince, David Salle, Cindy Sherman, and Andy Warhol. Spanning over five decades, the works in this exhibition demonstrate the versatility of portraiture and the way in which contemporary artists have utilized the traditional genre to speak on identity, self-expression, transformation, and the human psyche.
The mythic figure of the hunter in Georg Baselitz鈥檚 1966 painting stands proudly atop a doglike creature 鈥� his heroic stance is fragmented, speaking on the forever destabilized post-war German culture. The hardened and stoic gaze is intensified through the artist鈥檚 heavy brushwork and subverted picture plane.
With a highly conceptual and painterly vision, Martin Kippenberger鈥檚 1984 suite of nine portraits gathers an unlikely cast of characters. John Lennon鈥檚 son dressed as a woman, Joseph Beuy鈥檚 mother, John Holmes, and a policeman create a spectrum of celebrity, pornography, music, politics, and fine art. Kippenberger taps into the elements of self-expression and entangles autobiographical, cultural, and historic references. It is a compendium which reflects Kippenberger鈥檚 own artistic ego and self-image.
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