Cadavre Exquis / Manet Olympia / Scheibitz, 2020

Part of a collaborative project, this edition by Thomas Scheibitz responds to Édouard Manet’s Olympia. In his interpretation, Scheibitz deconstructs the original painting by separating its two central figures and repositioning them across the picture plane – introducing distance, tension, and an entirely new spatial logic. Into this rearranged composition, he inserts his signature visual vocabulary of bold, graphic shapes and stylized forms. The result is both a nod to art history and a distinctly contemporary reconstruction: a dynamic interplay between figuration and abstraction that reframes the familiar with Scheibitz’s unmistakable formal language.