GEORG BASELITZ- AVANTI!
The exhibition is the first major retrospective in Italy dedicated to Georg Baselitz, one of the leading figures in international contemporary art, and focuses on a central yet often less explored dimension of his practice: printmaking.
Organized in collaboration with the artist’s studio, the exhibition spreads across the three floors of the Museo Novecento and brings together approximately 170 works — including prints, paintings and sculptures — offering a comprehensive view of the complexity and radical nature of a body of work spanning more than sixty years and highlighting both the coherence and the radical nature of a visual language that has traversed different periods and contexts.
The selected works on display reflect the wide range of themes addressed by Baselitz and reaffirm his conception of art as process and transformation, grounded in a gesture that rejects any reassuring harmony.
Born in Germany in 1938 and raised among the ruins of the Second World War, Baselitz made destruction a founding matrix of his work. A pioneering and nonconformist figure of the postwar period, he has driven a radical renewal of artistic language challenging academic conventions and rejecting any predefined models. The most emblematic expression of his nonconformism is his inversion of images, which compels the viewer to begin anew.
The exhibition also highlights the deep connection between the artist and Florence, a city that profoundly shaped his education. Baselitz lived in Florence for approximately six months in 1965, after winning the Villa Romana Prize, during which time he engaged with the anti-classical and expressionist art of the Italian sixteenth century, particularly the work of Rosso Fiorentino, Domenico Beccafumi, and Jacopo da Pontormo. Between 1976 and 1981, he returned to the city several times, culminating in his solo exhibition in 1988 in the Sala d’Arme at the Palazzo Vecchio.
The exhibition offers an opportunity to engage with one of the greatest artists of our time, who has dismantled figurative tradition only to regenerate it from its own ashes.
Visit it with Firenzecard!
Organized in collaboration with the artist’s studio, the exhibition spreads across the three floors of the Museo Novecento and brings together approximately 170 works — including prints, paintings and sculptures — offering a comprehensive view of the complexity and radical nature of a body of work spanning more than sixty years and highlighting both the coherence and the radical nature of a visual language that has traversed different periods and contexts.
The selected works on display reflect the wide range of themes addressed by Baselitz and reaffirm his conception of art as process and transformation, grounded in a gesture that rejects any reassuring harmony.
Born in Germany in 1938 and raised among the ruins of the Second World War, Baselitz made destruction a founding matrix of his work. A pioneering and nonconformist figure of the postwar period, he has driven a radical renewal of artistic language challenging academic conventions and rejecting any predefined models. The most emblematic expression of his nonconformism is his inversion of images, which compels the viewer to begin anew.
The exhibition also highlights the deep connection between the artist and Florence, a city that profoundly shaped his education. Baselitz lived in Florence for approximately six months in 1965, after winning the Villa Romana Prize, during which time he engaged with the anti-classical and expressionist art of the Italian sixteenth century, particularly the work of Rosso Fiorentino, Domenico Beccafumi, and Jacopo da Pontormo. Between 1976 and 1981, he returned to the city several times, culminating in his solo exhibition in 1988 in the Sala d’Arme at the Palazzo Vecchio.
The exhibition offers an opportunity to engage with one of the greatest artists of our time, who has dismantled figurative tradition only to regenerate it from its own ashes.
Visit it with Firenzecard!
Access notes:
Direct access from the ticket office and entry into the first available visit slot.
Last admission one hour before closing.
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