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Norbert Bisky
Zentrifuge
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Texts by: Dorothée Brill, Jeanette Zwingenberger, Kathleen Bühler, Prof. Dr. Hubertus Gassner
Edited by: Dorothée Brill
Graphic Design: Hermann Hülsenberg
German, English
November 2014,
144
Pages, 0 Ills., 67 Photos
softcover
213mm x
270mm
ISBN:
978-3-7757-3938-2
| The first extensive overview of Norbert Bisky’s provocative and complex art
Norbert Bisky’s artistic cosmos is as colorful as it is gruesome. Many of his figurative paintings are suffused with densely packed body parts—heads, torsos, arms—caught in flood waves and wedged into one another. Orange skin tones, light pink, green, yellow, and violet against radiant blue or somber black-brown dominate the palette, an intense chromaticity that often contrasts with the themes of the paintings: nude male bodies are torn apart, handsome faces mangled. Bisky’s powerful painting engenders ambivalent feelings in which he explores the boundaries of representation. The publication provides a first, long-overdue art-historical examination of Bisky’s oeuvre. Hubertus Gaßner, Kathleen Bühler, Dorothée Brill, and other authors pursue the questions prompted by this vehement style of painting: Why this brutal treatment of the body and its image? Why the decomposition of figuration and fixed structures? Where is Bisky to be positioned? Exhibition: Kunsthalle Rostock 16.11.2014–15.2.2015
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