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This exhibition, which is part of the series Louisiana on Paper, spans the period from 1974 onwards and supplements the paintings in Louisiana’s collection. At the same time, we get to see unfamiliar and surprising intermediate stages in his life’s work.

Wörsel was thoughtful and in his own way fastidious artist. The material is nevertheless permeated with an insatiable appetite, especially for all the verbal aspects of painting, understood as text in pictures and as the wealth of signs embedded in every picture. In his art, Wörsel never revealed himself – in that respect he was ‘cool’; but …