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