Georg Baselitz (b. 1938, Germany)
Installation at Zeitgeist International in Berlin, 1983

“…Georg Baselitz hung his paintings high on the wall. He wanted to be difficult, to stop his paintings being decorative. It was irritating, just as his inversion of the image was irritating” (Godfrey 2009, 61).

I recognise in that my own drive to be difficult. To challenge the audience, to force them to actively engage in sensemaking rather than just revelling in comfortable entertainment of passive viewing. Once I had my audience to dive in a cold river to see my underwater work…

References

Godfrey, Tony. 2009. Painting Today. London: Phaidon.