Georg Baselitz: Schlafende Hunde Michele Tavola features a detail of the

features a detail of the 1983 painting Horn Players by Jean-Michel Basquiat

he relies on simple materials and the human senses—particularly touch and sight—to explore processes such as respiration

and Bernardo Cavallino

the artist’s first exhibition in Cuba

which combine aspects of popular cartoons from Japan

Georg Baselitz: Schlafende Hunde Michele Tavola features a detail of thePrinted on Somerset paper by Niels Borch Jensen in Copenhagen, this work is one of twenty four prints from Georg Baselitzs series Schlafende Hunde (Sleeping Dogs) (199899), which reflects on humanitys suffering. Against an expressionistically rendered field of color, or framed by curtains, each dog appears in repose, rendered with jagged strokes that evoke the burden of living with humans. Baselitz gives new meaning to the idiom Let sleeping dogs lie