Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac opens an exhibition: Alexander Kluge in conversation with Georg Baselitz and Anselm Kiefer
(Artdaily.org)

For this exhibition, the German filmmaker and writer Alexander Kluge presents a multi-screen video installation alongside a selection of his writings. Featuring some of Kluge’s characteristic montage films, this installation is being exhibited in dialogue with twenty drawings by Georg Baselitz, which have never been shown before, and two new paintings by Anselm Kiefer. Having shared a deep intellectual affinity with both of these artists for many years, Alexander Kluge pays them a cinematic homage which engages and further extends the intersection between their individual practices. In both his writings and films, Alexander Kluge brings together disparate elements from the real world, filling the gaps with fiction, then cutting and pasting them together. He approaches the world as an archeologist, exhuming various fragments and then incorporating them in the open structure of his films. In his unpredictable