SAO PAULO.- The Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo is presenting the exhibition Georg Baselitz: Pinturas Recentes [Georg Baselitz: Recent Paintings]. The first solo show of the artist’s works in South America, it features a set of 30 paintings produced over the last 12 years – a period in which the artist has revisited and given a new face to the human types he made in the 1970s and ’80s, which constitute the central theme of his oeuvre. Accompanying and reacting to the contemporary cultural dynamics, his painting has become more lyrical, quicker and fluid, and also more ascerbic and ironic. Baselitz denominated this project “Remix,” thus assuming – in a critical and personal way – this concept widely used in other fields of mass culture. Through the artworks of this last decade, the painter has reexplored his themes, his obsessions, his existential and artistic trajectory, beginning a new phase. Georg Baselitz’s oeuvre, which he began cons