Georg Baselitz. Archinto / Mary Weatherford. The Flaying of Marsyas

Georg Baselitz. Archinto / Mary Weatherford. The Flaying of Marsyas : Georg Baselitz Surrealismus die Filzlüge (Surrealism The Felt Lie), 2020, huile sur toile, 300 × 400 cm    Georg Baselitz. Archinto / Mary Weatherford. The Flaying of Marsyas : Georg Baselitz Archinto, 2021, installation view    Georg Baselitz. Archinto / Mary Weatherford. The Flaying of Marsyas : Georg Baselitz Archinto, 2021, installation view   


The exhibition


Baselitz in torment

Inspired by a strange portrait of Filippo Archinto by Titian, in which the cardinal's face disappears behind a veil, the German artist, like a new Dürer dazzled in turn by a city deemed "too much," scars with garish colors and shapeless brushstrokes illegible skulls painted upside down, themselves inserted into the baroque stucco frames of the Sala del Portego. "I've never painted canvases as colorful as these - so what? Although derived from Titian's Supplication of Marsyas, another painting between horror and beauty, Mary Weatheford's dark gray, purple, and silver canvases slit with white neon, exhibited on the second floor, cannot quite compete with the smell of sulfur and death in Venice delivered by Baselitz.

Excerpt from the article by Emmanuel Daydé published in the issue 102 of the magazine Art Absolument, published on July 12, 2022.

When


30/06/2022 - 13/11/2022
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