Sylvester Stallone's 75th Birthday Retrospective at Osthaus Museum Hagen

Sylvester Stallone celebrates his 75th birthday with a major retrospective at the Osthaus Museum Hagen in Germany, running from December 4, 2021 to February 20, 2022. The exhibition features over 50 paintings, including self-portraits and never-before-seen works, spanning from the late 1960s to the present. Stallone's painting career has been a constant for 55 years, influencing and being influenced by his film work. His iconic character Rocky was first created on canvas before the 1976 film script. Previous museum exhibitions include the Russian State Museum in St. Petersburg (2013) and the Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain in Nice (2015). Stallone's early works were signed "Mike Stallone" and were experimental. He turned to screenwriting and acting for financial reasons before pursuing art. His paintings draw from surrealism, expressionism, and abstraction, described as "action-dense" and expressive like his films, yet full of symbolic and allusive references. Stallone stated: "Painting is the fastest and purest translator of the subconscious."