The Triumph of Painting, the title of a three-part landmark exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in London, refers to painting as the fundamental root of artistic expression. At the start of the twenty-first century, when every possible medium is valid as a creative means and the artistic options are endless, we are in fact witnessing the vigorous reassertion of painting. Unlike previous painting traditions, painting in Europe in the nineties advanced with new and wider references to the whole realm of visual culture, embracing architecture, advertising, cinema, fashion and, in particular, photography.

The Triumph of Painting, the title of a three-part landmark exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in London, refers to painting as the fundamental root of artistic expression. At the start of the twenty-first century, when every possible medium is valid as a creative means and the artistic options are endless, we are in fact witnessing the vigorous reassertion of painting. Unlike previous painting traditions, painting in Europe in the nineties advanced with new and wider references to the whole realm of visual culture, embracing architecture, advertising, cinema, fashion and, in particular, photography.

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MARTIN KIPPENBERGER PETER MARLENE DUMAS

LUC TUYMANS JORG IMMENDORFF HERMANN NITSCH

II

DANIEL RICHTER KAI ALTHOFF CECILY BROWN DEXTER DALWOOD

MICHAEL RAEDECKER MUNTEAN & ROSENBLUM TAL R

JONATHAN MEESE ALBERT OEHLEN DANA SCHUTZ

FRANZ ACKERMANN THOMAS SCHEIBITZ WILHELM SASNAL

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DEE FERRIS MAAIKE SCHOOREL SARAH PICKSTONE

THORALF KNOBLOCH MIKE SILVA MICHAEL ASHCROFT

SHRISTOPH RUCKHABERLE CHRISTIAN WARD TIM STONER

ENRICO DAVID CHANTAL JOFFE SOPHIE VON HELLERMANN LIZ NEAL

TIM LOKIEC JIN MYERSON ANDREW GUENTHER ENA SWANSEA

MAURO BONACINA TILO BAUMGARTEL LUCY SKAER JOHN KORNER

IAN MONROR STEFAN KURTEN WILLEM WEISMANN HERNAN BAS

LUCY McKENZIE DAVID THORPE TOBY ZIEGLER MARTA MARCE

ECREN TEKINOKTAY SIMON BEDWELL JOHANNES WOHNSEIFER

EBERHARD HAVEKOST ALISA MARGILIS HIROSHI SUGITO

BARNABY FURNAS MARIO ROSSI