EJ Hauser blogs images of a recent exhibition: A. R. Penck: Vergangenheit-Gegenwart-Zukunft at Museum Ludwig, Cologne.

The centerpiece of the exhibition is an immense 20 x 40 foot canvas, Me in Germany (West), 1984, "a work that Penck painted non-stop in 35 hours… the piece is not simply about a society, it's about a whole culture and existing in it, about sex and power, politics and church, life and death – aspects that he joins up with great daring"