A breathtaking exhibition from German artist Mr Georg Baselitz.

If you thought “remixing” was confined to 1980s disco 12-inches, think again. No less an eminence than the veteran German artist Mr Georg Baselitz has co-opted the term for his new show of work, Wir Fahren Aus (We’re Off), which takes up the whole of White Cube’s expansive Bermondsey outpost.

In Mr Baselitz’s case, he’s not turning up the high hat and favouring the woofers over the tweeters; rather, he’s revisiting earlier motifs from his substantial oeuvre and reworking them using different techniques and mediums. Thus, a series of new, monumental paintings is based on a double portrait of the artist and his wife Ms Elke Kretzschmar Baselitz from 1975, titled “Bedroom”. Recast in a murky palette and a sprayed “haze”, each work has a spectral, borderline abstract quality that is enhanced by Mr Baselitz’s characteristic inverting of the image (he says it’s a way of focusing attention on process, rather than subject, but it remains a challenge to exhibition installers and magazine proofreaders alike).

At 78, Mr Baselitz still creates all his own artworks by himself, dispensing with the common practice of using assistants. This is reassuring to know, but also makes the sheer scale of some of these paintings – the largest of which are almost too monumental even for the enormous South Gallery II – rather awe inspiring, and all the more so because of the intensely personal subject matter. The theme is continued in the North Gallery, in which hangs an additional series of portraits, this time of Ms Kretzschmar Baselitz alone, in a single pose. Through obsessive repetition of this image, Mr Baselitz ekes out a wealth of subtle variations in stroke and colour – in fact, you get the feeling that it’s an image he could go on recreating for ever. This, of course, is rather heartwarming when you consider that the couple have been married for more than 50 years. But there’s also something haunting about all these floating, fragile, inverted figures, a feeling that is only deepened by the imposing presence of the large bronze “Zero Dom” (2015), a crooked, tree-like structure cast from roughly sawn wood, which lurks around a corner.

Wir Fahren Aus (We’re Off) runs until 3 July