From the devil's kitchen. 1994.
Acrylic on canvas.
Signed in bottom center. Stretcher signed, dated and titled. 60 x 79.5 cm (23.6 x 31.2 in). [CH].

• The logic and systematics of A. R. Penck's sign language are unique in post-war German art.
• His stick figures with large penises, which have become his trademark, and the simplified, clear forms, signs and symbols evoke an archaic pictorial effect that has earned Penck the nickname "cave painter of postmodernism" (A. Jürgs, Stern Magazine, 2007).
• The artist's biography and artistic work are shaped by the division of Germany, the confrontation with the GDR government and life in two conflicting societies.
• Penck may have chosen the title as a commentary on the political situation in the still young unified Federal Republic.
• In 1992, Penck exhibited at the documenta in Kassel for the third time after 1972 and 1982.

PROVENANCE: Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia.