Can basle it is being portrayed in forty five minutes and honored but he doesnt want to take part himself a really. It is a studio is a workshop im hard at work here i cant put up with disturbances in the workshop i cant have an audience in there even if its just a camera no way. In two thousand and eleven a sensation that something is in london the collection of count do economy is going under the hammer masterworks of the Twentieth Century including nine by the. Young boss or their. Boss and its his paintings also sinister and aggressive at this auction they fetched priceless. One by a paid three point two Million Pounds for spectrum not a man with a giant phallus dating from one thousand nine hundred sixty five the highest price ever paid for a boston its. Called gail because lives in exhaustible creator of pictures stagnation is a foreign word time and again he comes up with real interpretations of well known motifs dongs hang light and airy in the gallery of his gila to dales little patch in south book because it is a shy basel its a certainly one of the very great painters of our age its not just in germany but internationally here certainly appreciated by the art market we see a Continuous Development of this appreciation its all for me one of the most important artists of the centuries and those commission was its a bit crass a figure because you feel in two thousand and seven so Norman Rosenthal devoted the ball academys biggest ever retrospective to georg bassinets that saakashvili started us as i dont mean hes as important as picasso but you can talk about him in the same breath as because of this and think of him on this level this could go on and knock him every day as if you dont wish to minister i dont regard myself as the bearer of any message or as a magician who turns everything he touches to art but as. And yet hes a star of the art world his works hand in the leading museums worldwide even so hes been a skinned when it comes to criticism. Has been levied off the bathroom and doesnt affect ive always noticed with basil it that hes a. Incredibly sensitive to statements he sees as negative almost like a seismograph. Only i get to. Call it shows hoffman recently retired curator at munichs modern art museum that pina could take them all down the exhibited thousand hits as early as the one nine hundred seventy is she devoted a whole room to him presenting a crosssection of his different periods to many as it may feel like pain is on crazy theyre very sensible very deliberate very controlled people know if they do something they know precisely why theyre doing it the you on basel its not just a paying ten graphic artist and sculptor hes also a passionate collector of africa not and mannerism drawings his friends say he absorbs everything like a sponge one of those who infused about very early on with the collector and. Too often they became friends. Puzzle is if you can peer over there at it dr oziel its is a family man with a nice wife and well brought up children who had sold a can down under stress from the outside he could be a senior Civil Servant and it was often. In two thousand and six balls and its moved from northern germany to that area setting up his consulate den a book unless saxony he settled on the shores of lake ama munich he occupies extensive premises built by architects at soak and. Only new one door different time for a change boss admits is supposed to have said. As in general tunisia is a very natural frank and so for short person you dont immediately see hes not just. I was too busy other people usually think of artists as rather extravagant in that manner but hes not a toll plaza its a. Born in saxony but has declared the ability spot on lake ama to be his new home of choice when he saw dan about council he also sold a large part of his collection to an American Investment bank and it was time to move on as needed when hes not integrated sure but thats not a precondition thats the case with all celebrities there are others who are port houses here we dont say you have to belong we want to leave him in peace after all hes supposed to be creating upgrade and thats why he came specially to bavaria i think some of. The bavarians an inquisitive bunch of mercury here i was. Bassinets lives a reclusive life hidden behind fences and trains he wanted the artist at work forgetting. Alice ross yeah so marked everything he does is quality was as a friend and he now lives in a house he commissioned from a very good architect. A bonus. So the variac can take pleasure in the fact that one of germanys leading artists lives here but it was a long journey. In one thousand nine hundred fifty eight bassinets moved to western men after being expelled from the academy of visual and applied arts in the communist east the reason given was social and political in maturity in the pulsating capitalist health of the city the young painter was an unmanned his painting was out of tune with the times he still didnt have a deal and. We avoided allen governor as we all had rooms of our own in a big fat chair but bartletts and his family already had a flat to themselves a party had been announced and i saw footmarks streaks of paint and so i thought lets go to the studio then posits appeared behind me and said pretty roughly what are you doing here i said what am i supposed to do im an art dealer i just want to look into your studio i dont suppose theyll be another chance ssage no way he said or and they are as good as counties and they have as a. Specially of em but then he thought a moment and said just a moment ago he squeezed through into the studio and came out holding a small a full folder with ten watercolors i was totally fascinated in goodness ashley trusts india was going to run after you know those days you could pick up a student watercolor first thirty marks that was the going rate times ten makes three hundred dollars i keep it well i had fifty i said leave the others ill come back he said keep your fifty marks what i said thats a fair price what do you mean he said there are three hundred each of you for me its got cost i will not. Never interfered to imagine how. He set up his gallery in one thousand nine hundred sixty three together with benyamin caps they represented bonnets along with other german painters of the wild school to this day i was here in the. Business to sit down and. There are still works by basel its in the galleries depository early works even though he hasnt been basel it says official diena for some hands now. The early work by gail basel its was not in chin with the times it is dark in color dark psychologically and obscene his paintings were provocative most especially the big night down the drain. To the star in the early years of germanys affluent Society People didnt want to see this filth or they didnt want to figures at all they wanted nothing to do with the past they didnt want these dirty colors they wanted their clean fridge and their shiny car but they didnt want to be confronted with the dirt of the past what i meant intellect i forgot constantine and pushed i thought that went hand in hand with the economic miracle in germany people wanted to sweep it all under the carpet i dont mean they wanted to to night all but they treated it as an episode you could easily forget i had an episode of argument over its i guess a life suggestion contest. But there was a group of young painters prepared to confront the past whatever the artist opposition and said among those fighting for a new espresso in style. Alongside bartletts and his dealer and me share them with the painters and we are paying him and off and mark was good at. Marcus knew that painter and sculptor in his studio as an old friend and colleague in those balls and its what well his op was to start with and sought an act of rebellion. Is gonna buy the album and there was a general consensus that painting should be free of pornography free of smart at most you could paint nudes but it had to be serious or the nude wasnt art will betide those who contravene this noble concept of art as embodying dignity and perfection you must remember these are the terms in which people talked of painting then with the full and dont want to sit in a divan theyre bigger if it isnt for a living in their mother by dr. Bassett it shocked Respectable Society that his dark works one exhibition and the vanna and katz gallery sparked a scandal the tabloids had a great time going they shared. Some doubt that the scandal was got up by me and modern british he had good contacts to the hacks in berlin it was the silly season and they needed a headline or two so we gave them one vice squad move in they screamed it was all lies. Did they are this guy so i asked him. The Public Prosecutor had never heard of it starts out right at the appears below to arrive promptly the next day to cover the next into. It worked the Public Prosecutor stepped in the pictures were confiscated the press had a field day so who was it just an Advertising Campaign for bronson. Promotion first though it was a publicity stunt and it worked only we gain nothing from it we didnt have the courage to tell basel its wed made it all up because he was an extremely fragile neurotic type to you they have devalued by there for a slow. We were both unsuccessful artists and basel its was subjected to more attacks than i was even by the Public Prosecutor i believe the hopped. Up stuff but he was very brave about it i think he may even have been pleased because at least his name became known to the public so if you do become shot heres what you have to give. Time to this whole little fact his pictures didnt sell any better. Stop im fall for unplugs it was a court case the pictures were confiscated there was a huge outcry in the press they really went for me and i was certainly annoyed to say the least it was very unpleasant as or so i was just wondering if that is i was after this exhibition basel its really turned against berlin and left the city i think he still doesnt like it on this. Day and his family moved to the country in one nine hundred seventy five he bought dan a book consul never held. His body it was kept growing while the attributes of his not remained abrasive and since then his reputation as a specific german painter. Is the days are going to top it all hes in this tradition hes a german painter he acknowledges his debt to the german expressionists and to auto addicts people say he embraces his ugly painting right but can you call do that i believe with all who know about it i dont think so you can call them hush and there is certainly a certain harshness in the german art tradition and. Good enough out and do the german a something this the tradition in which basel sees himself as a painter. Before wolf torch the accusation of being german you have to see how you cope with that you have to ask what sort of defense you can make as thats what i did was just ask what does german painting look like. And i began where one does begin with. In comparison with their contemporaries in italy france or england and here german painting does stand out and it stands out because it is ugly than the others it is ugly for very definite reasons it doesnt operate on a life size scale things are reduced so theres a particular form of obstruction people are mostly placed in landscapes where they dont belong for example and i consider. That. Gayo basel it was born again can in the village of dutch bassinets in saxony in one nine hundred thirty eight his parents were teachers it was only in one nine hundred sixty one and was the german harshness. Of patriotic and i think its true of all artists that to a certain extent like all of us they bear the stamp of their environment their history so they are bound into this cultural situation but to call him the most german of all german painters yeah i really dont know what that supposed to mean but i think. The korean artists say oh stop it at the burnin on to kind of she was in professor boston it says cause in two thousand and three she became his master pupil. I am tired i had this idea i had painted some really cheerfully colored pictures and one day he came into the studio and took all the brushes and paintings off the trolley and put them to one side he only left me some very narrow asian brushes and black and white paint begin with these he said its just dont try to imitate european painting and dont forget where you come from thats all you dont push your clothes get in this field a simple to hang out cause positives had a few years ago basel its confronted. The works of american painters and we exhibited these works here in south school and in paris he said he looked at the kooning twice and wanted to imitate the brush strokes of this Great American painter he also looked at the works of Jackson Pollock and he tried out the dripping technique at which but for all that he could never escape from his own brush technique because it is simply so striking in so my cant is this is africa and if profit is like a language the way he uses the brush in the same. Invented order it sure did he said the strength of the stroke develops the trail left by the brush that is so uniquely bartletts that try as he might to learn from other artists he can ultimately not get away from his own technique to name it well its if he can listen as and i said im going to be interesting he can give. You if youre a painter you have to paint for example with your feet or with your nose or from behind or back to front you must take no notice of anyone might be embarrassing but whos going to want you in the studio with a screen those companies are very cool for july thirtieth. Cation and they bassinets does allow himself to be observed at rock he now paints his pictures on the floor but that has not deprived them of any of them momentum. I basel it has never actually achieved harmony hes always been the aggressive painter and thats what sets him apart in the modern i could leave them to us or to new york. And boston it remains true to himself as an artiste. The most effect of maybe i need to go back to his most famous group of words i mean the heroes of the hero such can be found in greek antiquity but when we think of Central Europe then theres a particular image of the hero that very strongly bears the mark of germany selfindulgent depict his aunt and the larva does feed off to kifah after all that happened in germany and austria in the one nine hundred thirty s. And fortys an artist who maintains this critical detachment and takes up the themes of the hero its a chaotic but this is team of this is that its got a great deal to do with german history is he made his head in with a of to cry from the transaction off me to the touch of the sheets of torn so whats a hero then she things that arent any heroes anymore you know its a target for him a brave man simply someone praised in song with tattoos in his honor someone who does Something Special like a knife god actually my. Knife gods and artist heroes. And his friends. Marcus lieutenants on the left. And michele and then on the right the brave men of the art business. The heads of mission kind of poke at superheroes provocative i cant follow that argument and falsely their quote illustrations on his view of the artist. As the dash to construction to construct the third depiction of the artist as he felt him to be in those days isolated under attack attack here at. The hearing the pictures serve to point up artistic selfassertion bunzl it himself calls one of them ideal picture a gift of god another point i will finish and. So no other measure i dont draw profession but a situation and attitude which was very aggressive and turned its back on what was happening in berlin and elsewhere for us in the league but all of us will perceive it or went as its why for example. On the way to work is a collage of the whole situation. Was a painter from saxony thats important and hes not held in high regard his work borders on. Basel its only mentioned him in the title or and that at that as a teacher who asked worked the picture itself is his own idea of himself id say the cell phone. At an auction at sothebys in new york in one thousand nine hundred ninety one paid the record price of more than a Million Dollars for look this rishta only way to work its precisely there were men to carry paintings that still make top prices part of its pictures can be found in all the major museums and collectors are still often. Do you consider me he is of course an artist who never sticks to a cycle for very long but always quickly moves on to the next we often prefer him to stick a bit longer to a particular series simply because the demand is there for completed groups of works but this curiosity this desire to jump from one thing to the next that fascinates me too in that sense every visit his studio is a surprise because you never know what youre going to get to see where this famous. Its always the next thing while youve still got the last one in your head youre surprised because the next ones there already. The whole mark of the boss and it is an upside down motif apparently trick maintaining to this game. That no two hundred. Sixty nine bartletts has been standing his motives on their head this trick allows him to treat the subject more objective lee he can deflect attention from the obvious the matic statement and direct it towards the purely painterly as he puts it it leaves me arnolds out there had just called me and said i have it i know how to do it im going to paint abstract great i said then ill paint things on the head too no he said i just wanted to tell my friends so we must all paint things on their heads for a year because gaols invented it but gail said no hed rather do it alone and thats what he did for that and after math. A simple idea with a huge effect on the forest upside down in this way bartlett revolutionized traditional Landscape Painting and gave it a new lease of life. The myth or the battle is his methods of inverting pictures is only possible when its deliberately seen as abstract otherwise it would be just silly to paint the world on its head thats not enough there must be some intellectual contemporary reference and in that sense its the highest form of abstraction to form the obstruction. The one killed gallery in london on display at boston it serious a fool an eagles an old motif reinterpreted and almost compulsively repeated it refuses to leave the artist to learn. Some seeds get a sense of what you see pollock and all the abstract painting which has a sense of quality versus fundraising leashed. This comes apart you see the falling if you like as black tears but the subject is of course the eagle jewish there are. Awarded to control it if he wanted control over the subject but at the same time he wanted to get as far away as possible from the immediate meaning of the concrete object of course even if you stand the german eagle on its head the concrete meaning is obviously still there yeah i might as i kind of he said he wasnt a political artist but he is a political artist that doesnt mean he takes to the barricades but he is a thinking artist and he thinks about the truths the falling eagle is of course an important german symbol like the tree and the forest list the traditional bisht the good tortures and all the force is of course a major german thing right and bush because story just came out. You know the i had some estimate and everyone who sees a puzzle its for the first time tries to twist their head around in order to see what its a picture of. On the i mean to shift it as a shown that in itself means they take half a minute longer looking at the picture than they would if it were the right way up. This is the second the my lai you can recognize the quality of the painting better if the picture is a little more abstract thats been addressed abstract art is. Its no secret that basel its paints his pictures upside down from the outset he doesnt simply turn them around he constantly seeks to liberate painting from the constraints of naturalism and creates a new dimension in which the motifs reorganize themselves. For misses him and often the unstuffed or wasnt understood sort of it i still miss a serious discussion because i think the program ive presented transcends and needs more than one painter or to me a plugged as i dont bother as at all shown for by that its build often coffee there were upside down pictures before basel its in the one nine hundred fifty s. There were painters whose names i forgotten but they had no influence he did it at the right moment for the going to go brant have taught at psych enough but it was such an iconic position that anyone else who did it would have been seen as an inferior imitator no painter wants that no crime allows its it was so unambiguous and so easy to imitate that the territory was occupied or was it dammit i get visits. Gail says one of those artists whove managed to grow rich in their own lifetime sales of his art enabled him to buy a castle he lived in the den a book near hildas home for more than thirty years. And they should leave the cranes ply their course through the heavens look once look twice and then look at me again we. Affinity singing come from i find this compromise on the part of painters who paint something you can put in the landscape very bad for it its a compromise i think a landscape doesnt have to stand comparison with the painted landscape which is in fact like the. Device a lemon is the only valves on the white canvas is the universe and this universe is weightless it has no gravity it has no light and no dark you have to introduce all of that yourself youre not dependent on the earths gravity heavyweights me nothing you dont need a caterpillar truck to move a work you can do it in two brushstrokes but once youve understood this image of the canvas then everything is possible including painting things upside down and in principle everythings abstract painting is abstract then you have all sorts of attempts to transfer this to something representation all i get to stand for that thats in english thats and theyre also attempts to transfer it into something totally abstract abstract its a trance which in the script is out for me the question of abstract or not abstract simply doesnt arise to. Crop pictures painted upside down have remained basil its trademark admittedly one thats worn a little thin its mom of it does and in the foster life its easy to overlook in the face of this upside down painting that this isnt why hes a great artist its just that hes a virtue of his own pain to and sometimes the idea is overvalued relative to the fact that the picture is a great work of art that it. Doesnt it has not yet founded a school based on his style but through him painting is getting a new impetus and asserting itself in Art Historical terms. Yes really now i ask you who is the more important for the history of music or paganini or beethoven or that any reasonable person will say beethoven but that he has his own press is so. Neat nor hell say beethoven didnt just refine and present existing music but also added his own style. Games will be. Offered. Of the beethoven created was a wholly new styles on which Young Musicians was other musicians can build so you have to look at a picture and ask is it paganini whole beethoven is. His page of it off. Limits and boundaries because its number in their mouth when you sat down with positives he lives on a farm of the time hed run out and come back with a bird in his hand he was the only person i know who was able to pluck a bird out from under the eaves hes a man with a mystery so thats what makes him an unusual man commits a. Battle its his forty two years old when he was invited to exhibit in the german civilians at the one thousand eight hundred then. We are now if the beer knowledge is still the accolade for an artist and everyone thought he did exhibit pictures that we knew upside down pictures that was already his trademark hed become well known with these upside down pictures but what did he do for the first time he made a sculpture my friend of the poor. Yusef boys thought bassinets was sculpture not even worthy of the first semester. And he succeeded with the sculpture and then he didnt need to hang the triptychs anymore or rather detest. With such german names as German School very nice pictures session of into the budget battle he was asked at the time why he hadnt exhibited any pictures but only a sculpture to surf over to the actual the german pavilion has been filled up with sculptures on the last two occasions all with just one in the case of a look at him and then again with boyce its a tradition i wanted to follow in short order and i must also do so he did a sculpture that was derived from african models archaic african sculptures ritual sculptures it was a figure leaning backward with one arm raised this was misinterpreted people said ah a german artist comes and makes a statue giving a nazi salute that was total rubbish of course he thought all the trick would play on and told me to hit up the people simply didnt look hard enough theyd just delivered a preconceived verdict like a cliche it was worse than my stand if you have to be a champion in not looking in order to see an outstretched arm with the palm facing upwards as a nazi salute with. That album mr allison those fans on the outside not on the inside its unmistakable they must have been blind. Scriptures is your wish sure there are things about the sculpture you can criticize but all in all i find it a successful contribution or attempt on my part or. Continue to make sculptures the roughness of his paintings its reflected in the word he uses. As for physicians it was evidently in shooting with the times sculpture was on the decline somehow it had grown too fond of stone and bone painters meanwhile were evidently able to discover and pursue new paths in sculpture. And basel it as in all his works provided a new way and arrived at these magnificent sculptures big believe for them for we gave. These goals are things going to only come. When it started the art of africa and its powerful expressiveness. It was obvious. Basel its is like a sponge he has a lot of things in his head of an african art not the whole of african art but certain things exerted a huge influence on him and he reshaped them in his own way if you like and made his own art out of art in order to pass his and of course. Most of his sculptures are of wood figures or heads or legs with feet even after thirty years his sculptural output comprises only around forty was not much compared with the number of quickly painted pictures. Really does or ive seen him do sculptures legs they were which he looked out and said that wont do so he took a chainsaw and sold them us next because i see no one entree to your school during surgery but possibly its hard as obviously of all the artists that i know basel its has the most objective sense of its own work. If. You. Get a feel for this. Bassinets is proud to show his wife what he has done and she in turn is not shy of offering a few comments but her verdict in the end is a good piece of work that is. Going to last but so. Listen. Remember if you wouldnt. Stoop to admission you are a big theres not just one way there are many ways and above all there are diversions in order to get out of this tangle you need help this isnt of the kid that i was is fighting isnt a slap in the straw my children are but above all my wife is metaphor that also goes for my own uncertainties i appreciate the criticism to take basil its right enough for me so im still me it was always someone quite capable of criticizing not in the sense that such and such is bad and doesnt interest me but in the sense of what a possibility is do i have a limit and i go along with that and ask what possibilities does he have these have to be seen and discovered and the impulse is mutual in surprise. Gail bassinets and you want to tell me is that a joint exhibition in berlin they share a birthday and an expressionist painting style means that there is a generation younger. That defeated a good women but there are many rules on how to paint a picture but there are no rules on how not to do it he paints according to the rules on how not to do it i like that its unconventional that doesnt mean hes better than me. To do your brows and its also about writes. Out on out sometimes reflecting on his own past work. Badly under funk and vacillates has begun to repaint important early works and i first heard about this when he phoned and said carla you must come to down a borg and see my new pictures theyre magnificent ive been repainting old pictures you see i thought for heavens sake that can only be a flop and i wish i knew what i mean even if i did i thought hed be painting some sort of copy. In two thousand and eight he repainted the big night down the drain he was liberating himself from the ghosts of the past. With the detachment of the mature artist basile its confronted his early works he repainted old motifs and called the cycle remakes. Become understanding how can you keep reinventing all this how can you keep on redefining yourself and take up seems youve already dealt with as you did in remakes i thought that was risky that the funding has a place count them at the least these pictures are major works in the great museums and if you try to measure yourself against your own works of course theres a risk that you didnt miss it wasnt his kind mala there was a. Basel it is not a painter who can escape modernism in my opinion this will be the next step in the history of painting. On god and now with the remakes pictures hes planted himself firmly there in our english that. Ack ack. Ack ack. In two thousand and six thousand its moved to bavaria that same year the pina could take them all down the lumix pictures interpreted king works. One hundred one via byatt and very quickly we arranged a major exhibition with the remakes pictures it was our first big exhibition and during the preparation this oh so tranquil artist was in a complete panic. Dhaka. In from up to his famous and recognised that he was in a blind funk how would the pictures go down too tough on people to follow could people accept them. In the film that he still thinks his old pictures are great he realized that when he was repainting annoyed about global does this kind kind i dont think thats a continuation or an extension of the themes but rather that the themes are simply part of art history now hes liberated from all the fanatic constraints and hes in a position simply to paint without constraints without threats without happiness on happiness or sentimentality or neutering or the dying in order to. Own our own little blue piece reached a situation which can almost be described as olympian that in the log he can move his paints freely around his cameras and i find that fascinating. Gale bartletts is now at the pinnacle of his fame his work doesnt betray his age. S. D. I. Hell never die. Its hes over seventy now but inside hes got five hundred sixty horsepower he doesnt stand still he drives so fast hes a visionary i dont know where his creative thoughts will stop because hes such an inquisitive person by then theyll join in noir get in the main chase today his artwork so becoming more playful the expressive brush stroke has remained but he creates much more lightness on the canvas even so no one should feel quite sure that things will stay this way for this artist is continually inventing himself. Are you up to speed on the latest technology. Know when it may be time for an upgrade. Become part of the future become something or. 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