Visitors expecting Georg Baselitz's famous upside-down figures at his first Korean museum retrospective are greeted instead by a picture of cattle, hung front and center right upon entering the galleries. In it, two cows stand in a green pasture. A clean horizontal cut runs through the canvas, and the halves sit out of register, so that muzzles and shoulders no longer align. The picture hangs right side up, yet it manages to unsettle all the same. "Two Cows Divided I" (1966), the oldest work in
The retrospective features 'Two Cows Divided I' prominently instead of his well-known upside-down figures.
'Two Cows Divided I' was created in 1966, making it the oldest work in the exhibition.
The painting features a horizontal cut that misaligns the cow's features, creating an unsettling effect despite being hung right side up.