André Butzer Explained
André Butzer (born in 1973 in Stuttgart),[1] is a German painter.
Biography
Butzer was born in Stuttgart, West Germany and lives in Rangsdorf near Berlin. He makes semi-abstract paintings that feature cartoon-like characters and objects.[2] Butzer is interested in the comic genre, whose ambivalence comes on the one hand from a childlike inflation of effect and on the other hand from an artificial lifelessness, set beyond morality.[3] [4] Butzer’s work has been called Science-Fiction-Expressionism,[5] he is influenced by James Ensor, Willem de Kooning, and Phillip Guston.[6] In 1997, he helped to found Akademie Isotrop in Hamburg.[7]
Butzer is represented by Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin, with whom he has exhibited with since 2003, and Nino Mier Gallery in Los Angeles.
Selected exhibitions
2014
- "André Butzer / Christian Eisenberger", Künstlerhaus KM–, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz
2011
- "andré butzer | der wahrscheinlich beste abstrakte maler der welt", Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover[8]
- "André Butzer", Carbon 12 Dubai[9]
2007
- "Niveaualarm" kuratiert von Ulrich Wulff, Kunstraum Innsbruck
- "Imagination Becomes Reality. Eine Ausstellung zum erweiterten Malereibegriff. Werke aus der Sammlung Goetz", ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
- "Kommando Friedrich Hölderlin Berlin", Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany (cat.)
- Alison Jacques Gallery, London
- Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Inc., Moscow
- Friedens-Siemense (Teil 2), Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
- Hitz ond Brand, Ortsmuseum Wolfhalden, Appenzellerland / Swiss Kommando Calvin
- Cohn, New York, salon 94, New York
2006
- "Imagination Become Reality: Ein mehrteiliger Ausstellungszyklus zum Bildverständnis aktueller Kunst. Part IV: Borrowed Images", Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
- "Amerikanische Technik im Jahr 2017", Patrick Painter Gallery, Los Angeles
- Galerie Bernd Kugler, Austria
- "Griessbrei für alle!", Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2005
- "La nouvelle peinture Allemande", Carré d’art-Musée d’art contemporain De Nîmes, Nîmes
2004
2003
- "Todall!", Galerie Hamelehle und Ahrens, Cologne
2002
- "Friedens-Siemense (Part 1)", Galerie Gabriele Senn, Vienna
- "Wanderung nach Annaheim", Maschenmode, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
2001
- "Galerie Hammelehle und Ahrens", Stuttgart (with Markus Selg)
2000
- "Akademie Isotrop", Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
- "Der Realismus bereut nichts!", Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
1999
- "Ich bin Munch", Galerie Esther Freund, Vienna
Collections
- Scharpff Collection
- Taschen Collection
- Goetz Collection
- Rubell Collection
- Colección Lázaro
See also
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: kestnergesellschaft. kestner.org.
- Web site: Andre Butzer at Alison Jaques Gallery. Undo.net. 29 July 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20070928004855/http://www.undo.net/cgi-bin/undo/pressrelease/pressrelease.pl?id=1184064939&day=1184191200. 28 September 2007. dead. dmy-all.
- Book: Groetz, Thomas. Painting and Good Health. Exhibition Catalog. Berlin. 2003. 7.
- Book: Holzwarth. Hans W.. 100 Contemporary Artists A-Z. 2009. Taschen. Köln. 978-3-8365-1490-3. 88. Taschen's 25th anniversary special.
- Web site: Andre Butzer. Alison Jaques Gallery.
- Web site: Saatchi Gallery. Saatchi-gallery.co.uk.
- Web site: Andre Butzer . Art4.ru . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070929000557/http://art4.ru/en/news/news_detail.php?ID=2680&block_id=36 . 29 September 2007 .
- Web site: Eventview ausstellungen . 2012-11-21 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131216165820/http://www.kestnergesellschaft.de/eventviewausstellungen.0.html?&tx_cal_controller . 16 December 2013 . dmy . [view]=event&tx_cal_controller[type]=tx_cal_phpicalendar&tx_cal_controller[uid]=12&tx_cal_controller[lastview]=view-list|page_id-565&tx_cal_controller[year]=2011&tx_cal_controller[month]=05&tx_cal_controller[day]=27&cHash=9eff847c078b26f1186c516b900a3add
- Web site: André Butzer - Works.
