In Blaue Küste (Blue Coast), Baselitz extends his long-standing investigation into inversion and the boundaries of perception. The cold blue tonality and weighty, impastoed strokes converge into a blurred horizon, suspending the forms outside conventional visual order. The “coast” is no longer a referential landscape but a shifting threshold between space and consciousness—an edge where perception becomes unstable.
Through inversion and structural dislocation, Baselitz turns the act of seeing itself into a subject of inquiry: when the image’s up and down, inside and outside are overturned, the viewer is compelled to renegotiate balance, orientation, and the very grounds on which meaning is formed.