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MAJOR ARTISTIC EVENTS OF THE PERIOD 1989 - 2015

1989 - Georg Baselitz realized '45 - One of the most

original and challenging works of the artist's "middle

period" of the artist Georg Baselitz is the 20-panelled

spectacle entitled '45. It alludes to the end of the second

world war and what in Germany came to be known as

Stunde Null (Zero Hour), when, at midnight on May 8

1945, the Nazi government capitulated. The work is like a

huge, late medieval German altarpiece.

1990 - Damien Hirst realized "A Thousand Years" - ‘A

Thousand Years’ and ‘A Hundred Years’ were first

exhibited at the warehouse show ‘Gambler’, in 1990. ‘A

Thousand Years’ is acknowledged by the artist to be one of

the most important of his career

1992 - Pierre Soulages won the " "Praemium Imperiale"

for painting - Pierre Soulages is a French painter,

engraver, and sculptor. In 2014 François Hollande

described him as "the world's greatest living artist".

1998 - Emanuele Luszzati realized a baby park -

Emanuele Luzzati realized in Santa Margherita Ligure

(GE), together with Emanuele Conte, a baby park inspired

by the Magic Flaut by Mozart and Jean Dubuffet works.

2010 - Artemide and Callisto - The Italian painter Enrico

Gherardi realized a painting called "Artemide and

Callisto".

2015 - Jean Jullien Creates a Symbol of Peace for Paris

after Deadly Attacks - After devastating human tragedy

and more than 130 lives lost in the terrorists attack on Paris

in November the French artist Jean Jullien drew a symbol:

the Eiffel tower circled and turned into a peace sign took

over the Internet world, accompanied by the Peace For

Paris message, as an emblem of support for the people in

France.