André Butzer
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Vom „Science-Fiction-Expressionismus“ des Frühwerks bis hin zu den äußersten Grenzen der Abstraktion in seinen nur scheinbar schwarzen N-Bildern zeigt Butzer sich als erfindungsreicher Meister der Farbe, der in jedem seiner Gemälde einen neuen Anfang sieht. Diese Ausgabe präsentiert Zukunft und Ursprünge der Malerei von André Butzer.
lt;p>Fusing European expressionism with American popular culture, André Butzer started painting his way through the artistic and political extremes of the 20th century. With wide-ranging influences including the likes of Friedrich Hölderlin, Edvard Munch, Walt Disney, and Henry Ford, he developed a fictitious universe centered around the space colony NASAHEIM. There dwells the Peace-Siemens, a friendly head-shape that combines utopian ideas with the economical thinking of budding mass-consumerism, while a figure like the Wanderer offers romantic projections, or the Shame-Human reflections of the political past. This universe lends thematic depth to the canvases, with the characters acting as protagonists of paint, surrounding the N-House, home of all colors, in the style the artist has termed "Science-Fiction Expressionism."Some years into the new millennium, the colors took on a life of their own and grew into abstract paintings of lines freewheeling across the canvas. Moving closer to the limits of painting, from 2010 on Butzer explored the fundamental dimensions and potentialities of painterly expression in the seemingly black surfaces of his N-Paintings. At this point, Butzer relocated to California in 2018, painting outdoors year-round. The resulting works brim with colorful freshness, an extended family of lines and figurations with new attitudes refined by their experiences at the far edge of abstraction.This revised and updated edition spans the full range of Butzer's oeuvre from 1999 to 2023, the works' progression gaining an almost musical drive of development, return, and new beginnings. The plates are interspersed with contemporary quotes from the artist that illuminate his idiosyncratic stance as a background to the work, as well as photos from his archives. The introductory essay, written by Hans Werner Holzwarth, investigates the different work phases, and places the artist's ideas in a wider discourse of abstraction and figuration after the end of either genre. And, most importantly, the book's pristine, huge-format illustrations fully evidence the finesse as a colorist that place this artist among the internationally most recognized painters of his generation.
lt;p>Fusing European expressionism with American popular culture, André Butzer started painting his way through the artistic and political extremes of the 20th century. With wide-ranging influences including the likes of Friedrich Hölderlin, Edvard Munch, Walt Disney, and Henry Ford, he developed a fictitious universe centered around the space colony NASAHEIM. There dwells the Peace-Siemens, a friendly head-shape that combines utopian ideas with the economical thinking of budding mass-consumerism, while a figure like the Wanderer offers romantic projections, or the Shame-Human reflections of the political past. This universe lends thematic depth to the canvases, with the characters acting as protagonists of paint, surrounding the N-House, home of all colors, in the style the artist has termed "Science-Fiction Expressionism."Some years into the new millennium, the colors took on a life of their own and grew into abstract paintings of lines freewheeling across the canvas. Moving closer to the limits of painting, from 2010 on Butzer explored the fundamental dimensions and potentialities of painterly expression in the seemingly black surfaces of his N-Paintings. At this point, Butzer relocated to California in 2018, painting outdoors year-round. The resulting works brim with colorful freshness, an extended family of lines and figurations with new attitudes refined by their experiences at the far edge of abstraction.This revised and updated edition spans the full range of Butzer's oeuvre from 1999 to 2023, the works' progression gaining an almost musical drive of development, return, and new beginnings. The plates are interspersed with contemporary quotes from the artist that illuminate his idiosyncratic stance as a background to the work, as well as photos from his archives. The introductory essay, written by Hans Werner Holzwarth, investigates the different work phases, and places the artist's ideas in a wider discourse of abstraction and figuration after the end of either genre. And, most importantly, the book's pristine, huge-format illustrations fully evidence the finesse as a colorist that place this artist among the internationally most recognized painters of his generation.
André Butzer wurde 1973 in Stuttgart geboren. Seit mehr als 25 Jahren malt er sich durch die Extreme des 20. Jahrhunderts, ging durch Kunst, Politik und Popkultur. Gemälde sind für ihn „Lokalisierungen von höchster Not und Hoffnung“, und gerade deshalb „dem Glück und der Hilfe, die wir benötigen, am nächsten“. Nach mehreren Jahren in Kalifornien lebt er heute im Südwesten Berlins und ist einer der international anerkanntesten Maler seiner Generation.
"Tizian sagte noch, Malerei sei Fleisch und Wasser, ich sage, Malerei ist Fleisch und Limonade." André Butzer
„Tizian sagte noch, Malerei sei Fleisch und Wasser, ich sage, Malerei ist Fleisch und Limonade.“
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.04.2024 |
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| Illustrationen | André Butzer |
| Verlagsort | Köln |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 265 x 342 mm |
| Gewicht | 2805 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik |
| Schlagworte | 20th Century Art • abstract art • Abstrakte Kunst • American popular culture • Amerikanische Populärkultur • career survey • cartoonartige Figuren • cartoon-like characters • Deutscher Maler • German painter • halbabstrakte Gemälde • Karriereübersicht • Kunst des 20 • Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts • science-fiction-expressionism • Science-Fiction-Expressionismus • semi-abstract paintings |
| ISBN-10 | 3-8365-9666-0 / 3836596660 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-8365-9666-4 / 9783836596664 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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