German artist Neo Rauch, championed as ?the painter of the zeitgeist? by The New York Times?s Roberta Smith, presents new paintings in PROPAGANDA. Rauch is widely celebrated for his captivating compositions that bring together figurative painting and surrealism into an entirely new kind of visual encounter. They often hint at broader narratives and histories?seemingly reconnecting with artistic traditions of realism?but they remain dreamlike and impossible to reduce to a single story. Though his art is highly refined and executed with great technical skill, Rauch himself stresses the intuitive, deeply personal nature of how he works. As the artist notes, ?My process is far less a reflection than it is drawing from the sediments of my past, which occurs in an almost trance-like state. ?Eight large-scale canvases and seven smaller, more intimately scaled works continue the artist?s...
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