A.R. Penck: I Think in Pictures : Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford, England

The Ashmolean is delighted to announce a new exhibition of internationally acclaimed German artist A.R. Penck (1939–2017). He was one of the most prolific and political artists of the ground-breaking generation that includes Gerhard Richter, Georg Baselitz and Anselm Kiefer. His dynamic and unmistakable style ranged over paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures, instantly recognisable by his ‘Standart’ stick figures, signs and symbols. Yet A.R. Penck remains a relatively unknown and under-explored artist in the UK despite his work being held in major international collections including MoMA and Tate. This museum exhibition, his first in the UK in over thirty years, features forty works made between 1970–90 when A.R. Penck moved between East and West Germany, Britain and Ireland. It also includes the largest work of art the Ashmolean has ever displayed, the monumental painting, Edinburgh (Northern Darkness III) (1987), which measures over nine metres wide and three metres tall.