My reference point is disharmony. The Munka Museum Oslo hosts Georga Basica Exhibition / Day

Feet FIRST There is the first exhibition of Georg Basica, which explores his long -term relationship with Edward Munk. Visitors can get acquainted with the development of George Basica's art practice from the early 1960s to the present. The works depicted in the air in the air are shattered by the post -war German scene and Edward Munch's ghost – all and much more than eighty paintings, drawings and sculptures.

Basicis portrays a human figure in different ways, his childhood landscapes, fragments of national symbolism, and in recent years also the process of aging itself. In 1969, he began to paint various objects cropped upside down to emphasize abstract, purely painting properties in his figurative images. Basic was born in 1938 in Hitler in Germany, which was on his way to the war, which slightly later destroyed Europe in the ruins. Birth in this « ruined order » has always been the main theme in his art.

« My reference point is disharmony, ugly things … and legs that are too big, » said Georg Basic. Photo – Eve Kvavik

Since the beginning of his work, Basics maintains dialogue with both contemporary and historical art. Exhibition Feet FIRST The central axis is Basica's passion for Edward Munk. In his view, Munks has strongly influenced the development of German modern art. Basicu was particularly impressed by Norwegian painter's late self -portraits and Scream. The influence of Munka is felt in the very first paintings of Basica, which were created around 1960, and in acts he painted in the 1970s. It is even more pronounced in the early 80s. At that time, the German artist has created several paintings, clearly referring to Munk, and there are playful self -confidence in the base of Basic. His art is amazing, direct, sometimes aggressive and deliberately awkward. « My reference point is disharmony, ugly things … and legs that are too big, » said the German artist.

« When I began to be interested in art and decided to become a painter, I looked at my father's library to see what I could find in it. There was a calendar with Munch's work reproductions, » Georg Baetic remembers in a video of 2014. « Later, I learned that Munk was trying to communicate with the Nazis. There was something that could have come, but he was old and refused to open the door. Mske was very popular, and one can understand why – his painting style is quite insane, strangely surrealistic. I just didn't know.

View from George Baslica Exhibition Munka Museum in Oslo. Photo – Eve Kvavik

« There is a drawing method that allows you to understand – not just psychiatrists – that something is wrong with the person. Munks drawed this way, for example, he used a double or triple outline. It fascinated me. Munks may have created this mental state himself, but I was never interested. Munks often turned to this theme. Alongside his exhibition, Oslo has an exhibition of Edward Munka's works.

Information: munchmuseet.no