Y.Z. Kami: Black Dome Jorge Fernandez Torres This book was published on

This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Georg Baselitz: Devotion at Gagosian

The exhibition included recent paintings in which the artist continues to meditate on the melancholy of the Psycho Spaghetti Westerns in complex pictures that conflate his signature elements with the visual devices

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This painting was first presented in the artist’s debut solo gallery exhibition in New York City at Annina Nosei Gallery in 1982

Zao began to seriously contemplate nature in his own work

Y.Z. Kami: Black Dome Jorge Fernandez Torres This book was published onY. Z. Kami created Black Dome, an iteration of his Dome paintings, in 2018. It recalls the concentric forms the artist saw in Persian architecture as a teenager, and later observed in Byzantine churches and basilicas. For Kami, the dome inspires contemplation and is a metaphor for the heavens.