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German expressionist at VAG

A MAJOR exhibition of paintings by one of Ger-
many’s leading contemporary expressionist artists,
Georg Baselitz, opened last week at the Vancouver

Art Gallery.

Twenty-nine figurative
works, their dimensions
averaging eight feet square
have been assembled by Van-
couver Art Gallery exhibttion
curator Jo-Anne Birme Dan-
zker, for Baselitz’s first solo
exhibition in Canada The
paintings have been borrow.
ed from private collections in
Germany, the tl S. and that
of the artist

Baselitz’s paintings,
graphics and sculptures have
been exhibited an mayor

museums throughout western
Europe, in Britain and in
leading art centre of the
United States The work of
this 46-year-old native of
East Germany, who moved
to West Germany in 1957,
was first seen at the Van-
couver Art Gallery in £980 in
a group exhibition, “Forms
of Realisin Today", organiz-
ed and circulated by the
Federal Republic of
Germany

In his toreword to the ex

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hibition
deirector,

catalogue,

Luke Rombout,
identifies ‘‘an urgency of
manner and meaning in
Baselitz, which makes if quite
clear that the work relates to
something more than the ex-
ploration of a new direction
IN painting per se.”’

He situates Baselitz
alongside such Post War Ger-

retiring

man artists as Guenther
Grass and the late R.W.
Fassbinder who have. ad-
dressed complex national

issues through metaphor and
symbolism in descfibing the
consciousness of ther nation.

In her curator’s statement
and catalogue essay Birme

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Danzker considers the debate
on the history and future ot
art currently taking place on
both sides of the Atlantic.
The controversy centres on
the revitalization ot
figurative painting, which
some critics see as
anachronistic, reflecting a
nostalgia for the past, ex
pressing powerlessness and
despair and embodying
unsettling nationalistic over:
tones.

In this) eahibition
Danzker has

Birnie
focused ex

clusively on Baselitz’s work,
methodology and contert as
a pivotal point in this ongo-
ing dialogue.
The  Baselitz
follows the
work by the Czechoslovakian
artist Jiri Kolar, also organiz-
ed by the Vancouver Art
Gialtery, and 1s one of a series
of exhibitions planned by the
Gallery to introduce to Van-
couver the new dynamics of
contemporary European art
An exhibition of recent
French, !tahan, and German

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open in May of 1985 running
concurrently with an exhibs-
tion of contemporary
sculpture from Europe and
the United States.

A 60 page catalogue with
color reproductions accom.
pames the exhibition and will
be on sale in the Gallery
Shop.

This exhibition, which con-
tinues through to January 2,
is financially assisted by the
Canada Council

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