James Kalm visits Markus Lüpertz: New Paintings at Michael Werner Gallery, New York, on view through July 7, 2016.

Kalm notes that this exhibition “presents over two dozen paintings from the past two years featuring the painter’s engagement with the Neo-Classic tradition. With a glancing nod to artists such as Nicolas Poussin, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, and Hans von Marées, Lüpertz simultaneously expresses a sense of ‘the anxiety of influence’, and also a transgressive response byway of primitive parody.”