Jörg Immendorff
Society of Deficiency
1998, Oil on Canvas
155 x 135cm |
Spanning three decades of immense
political change in his native Germany, Jorg Immendorff's work
took a turn from the political to the personal in the late eighties.
His many self-portraits depict a lonely creator, whose role as cultural
antenna has been rendered suddenly obsolete.
Society of Deficiency is a more gloomy scene: the artist in his studio/toxic wasteland, struggling
to create, surrounded by repetitive symbols of Joseph Beuys' hat and
a primitive monument of himself. |