For the opening of his first major exhibition in a museum, the Munich resident has announced that he will auction off the tattoos on his skin. For acceptance post-mortem, of course. How the evening went.
Bernhard Maaz is the bearer of the message. But first the general director of the Pinakothek gives a short lecture on the role of provocation in art. Without one, the other simply wouldn’t exist, he says. The man should know, during the lockdown months he wrote a 1,400-page standard work about the paintings in the Bavarian State Painting Collections.