ART GALLERYGALERIE BASTIAN
With exhibition spaces in Berlin and London, BASTIAN has an international reputation for presenting remarkable modern, post-war and contemporary works of art in solo exhibitions and curated group shows. 20th Century artists such as Pablo Picasso and Jean Dubuffet, as well as German and American post-war artists including Joseph Beuys, Anselm Kiefer, Cy Twombly, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol, form the core of the exhibition program.
BASTIAN also represents a number of leading international contemporary artists including Anselm Kiefer, Ulrich Erben, Wim Wenders and Emma Stibbon in Germany.
The gallery publishes numerous exhibition catalogues, artist monographs and catalogues raisonnés. In addition, exhibitions and showrooms are presented in the gallery’s online viewing rooms. BASTIAN participates in a number of selected international art fairs, notably Frieze Masters, MASTERPIECE London, Taipei Dangdai, Art Cologne and Art Düsseldorf.
Established by Céline and Heiner Bastian in 1989, the gallery has been directed by Aeneas Bastian since 2016.
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98000 Monaco
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Untitled, 1989 Acrylic on wooden board
128 x 88 cm
Signed and dated recto upper left
Copyright Estate Günther Förg,
courtesy Galerie Bastian
EXHIBITIONAbstraction - figuration
For the 2022 edition of Monaco Art Week, Galerie Bastian presents a small group of significant works illustrating the evolution of abstraction and figuration in European post-war art. After 1945, major artists bestowed a new identity on figurative painting, whereas others found a new form of vivacity primarily based on their use of colour, leading to the creation of two different pictorial languages.
Abstract works will be juxtaposed with figurative pictures. This dialogue will focus on paintings of Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) and Günther Förg (1952-2013), two remarkable artists searching for uncompromising, radical forms of expression.
