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Galerie Max Hetzler: Andr� Butzer - 1 May 2009 to 13 June 2009 Current Exhibition |
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Andr� Butzer
Untitled, 2008, Oil on canvas, 260 x 260 cm |
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Andr� Butzer Er�ffnung Freitag, 1. Mai von 16 bis 21 Uhr Galerie Max Hetzler Zimmerstra�e 90/91 Samstag + Sonntag 2. + 3. Mai von 10 - 19 Uhr Private view Friday, May 1 4 - 9 pm Galerie Max Hetzler Zimmerstra�e 90/91 Saturday + Sunday May 2 + 3 10 am - 7 pm Andr� Butzer Galerie Max Hetzler is pleased to present an exhibition featuring five new paintings by Andr� Butzer at Zimmerstra�e 90/91 on the occasion of the Gallery Weekend Berlin. Andr� Butzer developed his own form of expression by reacting to the non-figurative paintings by Albert Oehlen, the colour range of Edvard Munch and Asger Jorn�s dense and bright compositions. Influenced by German Expressionism, Andr� Butzer shaped a style of intense colours, which produce an artificially exaggerated reality with overreaching and sometimes apparently grotesque forms. His work equally shows figurative elements which are often referring to comic-like figures. On view will be large-scale paintings which display bright colourful lines and patterns on a grey background. In this recent series of grey paintings graphical elements appear such as dots, spirals and geometrical forms. The background surface is no longer saturated with thick layers of paint. Only graphical strokes of coloured lines are running in angular forms parallel to the edges. The composition is truly different from the colour paintings. Fewer motifs are depicted and the resulting effect represents a crucial contrast between the two series. A significant aspect of Andr� Butzer�s work, which he calls �science-fiction-expressionism� is the repetition. The repetition is the core topic of his paintings that he approaches through variations, always referring to the same origin: �Paintings do not come into being one to one, but one to twenty; they cannot be fixed in a single outline, colour and function, but are constantly produced afresh by the observation and movement of these elements.�* This is Andr� Butzer�s fourth�s solo exhibition at Galerie Max Hetzler. Andr� Butzer, born in 1973, lives and works in Rangsdorf near Berlin. The Kunsthalle N�rnberg will be presenting a solo exhibition by Andr� Butzer starting in June 2009. Solo shows include Kunstverein Heilbronn (2004). He has participated in numerous group exhibtions including Oldenburger Kunstverein, MUMOK, Vienna, ZKM - Museum f�r Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover (all in 2008); Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2007); Collection Goetz, Munich (2006); Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Carr� d�art � Mus�e d�art contemporain de N�mes, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Kunstverein Ulm (all in 2005); Kunsthalle Hamburg, Kunstverein Graz, Kunstverein Frankfurt (all in 2003) and Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2002). A second solo exhibition by Andr� Butzer is on view during the Gallery Weekend Berlin at Galerie Guido Baudach in Berlin-Wedding, Oudenarder Stra�e 16-20. Parallel to this exhibition, Galerie Max Hetzler is presenting wall paintings and new paintings by Yves Oppenheim in the space at Oudenarder Stra�e 16-20, Berlin-Wedding. *Andr� Butzer: Das Ende vom Friedens-Siemens. Menschentraum. Kunstverein Heilbronn, 2004. Text by Roberto Ohrt, p. 9. |
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