Darkness Goldness
White Cube, Masons Yard
Until 14th November 2020
Gigantic paintings of golden hands, solemn and primeval, by one of the best known and at 82, most senior painters still working. Manual dexterity is alive and kicking. White Cube, Masons Yard, until 14 November
4 September – 14 November 2020
White Cube Mason’s Yard
Please note the gallery is operating timed visitor slots to enable easy social distancing and avoid queues. Advance booking is required before you visit. Book HERE
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Since the beginning of his career, Georg Baselitz has painted ‘monstrous’ hands and feet. His famous ‘Heroes’ series of the mid-1960s, for example, show battered figures with over- or undersize extremities standing in blasted landscapes. Their hands bear stigmata or hold tiny burning buildings or farm implements – symbols, perhaps, of the cycles of destruction and regeneration in 20th-century Germany.