Monographie présentant les peintures de l'artiste, de ses premières oeuvres expressionnistes frayant avec la science-fiction jusqu'à son exploration des confins de l'abstraction. ©Electre 2025
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, he 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.
Paru le : 15/03/2024
Thématique : Histoire de la peinture Monographies de peintres
Auteur(s) : Non précisé.
Éditeur(s) :
Taschen
Collection(s) : Non précisé.
Contributeur(s) : Auteur du texte : Hans Werner Holzwarth - Traducteur : Alexander Serner
Série(s) : Non précisé.
ISBN : 978-3-8365-9666-4
EAN13 : 9783836596664
Reliure : Relié sous jaquette
Pages : 431
Hauteur: 35.0 cm / Largeur 26.0 cm
Épaisseur: 5.0 cm
Poids: 3800 g
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