Gerhard Richter (Dresden, Germany, 1932)
Seascape (Seestück), 1998
Oil on canvas
290 x 290 cm
Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa
Selections from the Guggenheim Bilbao Collection II The second in a series of exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, this show examines the artistic debate in Europe in the 1970s and 80s through the works of artists like Gerhard Richter, Anselm Kiefer or Georg Baselitz.
From November 15, 2011, until August 28, 2012.
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Source: Guggenheim Bilbao / theartwolf.com
The exhibition begins with a suite of sixteen large-format paintings by Georg Baselitz (born 1938), forming the work entitled “Mrs. Lenin and the Nightingale” (2008), recently acquired by the Museum. Each of the sixteen canvases show Lenin and Stalin depicted upside down and sitting next to each other. According to the Museum, this work was inspired by Otto Dix’s “The Artist’s Parents II” (Die Eltern des Künstlers II , 1924).
In addition to Baselitz, Gerhard Richter (born 1932) and Anselm Kiefer (born 1945) are the main representatives of German art of the latter half of the 20th century. In his beautiful “Seascape” (Seestück , 1998) Richter “blurs the boundary between photography and painting”, as the Museum explains in a press release.
Other artists represented in the exhibition are Richard Long (born 1945) with his “Bilbao Circle” (2000), Francesc Torres (born 1948) with his multimedia installation “Too Late for Goya” (1993) and Christian Boltanski (born 1944).
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