BADEN.- VISAGES bears witness to the artist’s lengthy and dramatic discourse with the image of his own face, his fascination with the facial expressions of death masks and, finally, his exploration of the depiction of faces in the history of art from antiquity through the end of the 19th century. This comprehensive show features over 80 individual works and outlines the various forms and techniques Arnulf Rainer has explored from the 1950s up to today.We learn how the artist has taken on the challenge of recreating and restoring the figure to visual art after its deconstruction in the 20th century. To this purpose, he uses his own face like a tabula rasa, as a foundation that allows him to develop an art that is at once free from any kind of convention and at the same time attempts to reconstruct the lost connection between art and life.    The exhibition, curated by renowned French art expert and museum director Jean‐Michel Foray, shocks us with the radical nature of