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Born 1973 Stuttgart, Germany. Known for: Large-scale neo expressionist painting, psychedelic color, frantic expression faces.
ANDRÉ BUTZER: . Born in 1973, Stuttgart, GermanyLives and works in Rangsdorf, Germany. André Butzer’s mural-like canvases are a compression of painting’s recent history in all its totality, animated... Read full biography
ANDRÉ BUTZER: . Born in 1973, Stuttgart, GermanyLives and works in Rangsdorf, Germany. André Butzer’s mural-like canvases are a compression of painting’s recent history in all its totality, animated by the artist’s trademark anarchic visual codes. Ahnenbild 2411 (2006) is overrun with a roughly... Read full biography
ANDRÉ BUTZER: . Born in 1973, Stuttgart, GermanyLives and works in Rangsdorf, Germany. André Butzer’s mural-like canvases are a compression of painting’s recent history in all its totality, animated by the artist’s trademark anarchic visual codes. Ahnenbild 2411 (2006) is overrun with a roughly executed, psychedelic use of colour and the frantic repetition of a hollow-eyed mask, at turns grinning like early 20th-century cartoons or expressing ugliness and terror à la Munch’s Scream or de... Read full biography
ANDRÉ BUTZER: . Born in 1973, Stuttgart, GermanyLives and works in Rangsdorf, Germany. André Butzer’s mural-like canvases are a compression of painting’s recent history in all its totality, animated by the artist’s trademark anarchic visual codes. Ahnenbild 2411 (2006) is overrun with a roughly executed, psychedelic use of colour and the frantic repetition of a hollow-eyed mask, at turns grinning like early 20th-century cartoons or expressing ugliness and terror à la Munch’s Scream or de Kooning’s Woman paintings. The repetition of the same exaggerated, anxious faces and unmasked pleasure in the physical act of painting appears in two works named Untitled (both 2007). A sense of urgent immediacy is articulated through their high impasto... Read full biography
ANDRÉ BUTZER: . Born in 1973, Stuttgart, GermanyLives and works in Rangsdorf, Germany. André Butzer’s mural-like canvases are a compression of painting’s recent history in all its totality, animated by the artist’s trademark anarchic visual codes. Ahnenbild 2411 (2006) is overrun with a roughly executed, psychedelic use of colour and the frantic repetition of a hollow-eyed mask, at turns grinning like early 20th-century cartoons or expressing ugliness and terror à la Munch’s Scream or de Kooning’s Woman paintings. The repetition of the same exaggerated, anxious faces and unmasked pleasure in the physical act of painting appears in two works named Untitled (both 2007). A sense of urgent immediacy is articulated through their high impasto technique and vivid, almost neon-toned colours. Butzer doodles wildly over dark or light backgrounds in separated, unble... Read full biography
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ANDRÉ BUTZER:
Born in 1973, Stuttgart, GermanyLives and works in Rangsdorf, Germany
André Butzer’s mural-like canvases are a compression of painting’s recent history in all its totality, animated by the artist’s trademark anarchic visual codes. Ahnenbild 2411 (2006) is overrun with a roughly executed, psychedelic use of colour and the frantic repetition of a hollow-eyed mask, at turns grinning like early 20th-century cartoons or expressing ugliness and terror à la Munch’s Scream or de Kooning’s Woman paintings.
The repetition of the same exaggerated, anxious faces and unmasked pleasure in the physical act of painting appears in two works named Untitled (both 2007). A sense of urgent immediacy is articulated through their high impasto technique and vivid, almost neon-toned colours. Butzer doodles wildly over dark or light backgrounds in separated, unblended clusters, reminiscent of Joan Mitchell’s abstract expressionist canvases. His embrace of an un-apologetically bright and varied paint box is conceptual: ‘Colour is basically about history. To animate colour is historic in the way that the image will tell us about the future and the past.’
Three other Untitled works (all 2007), which also combine abstraction with figuration, explore similar ideas but through a much more restrained almost greyscale palette. Their pared-down unfilled faux naïve geometric shapes recall surrealist compositions and Cy Twombly’s accumulated mark-making. Equally romantic and nihilistic, the artist has described these works as ‘the kind of things Donald Duck would do when he paints’.
2012
Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, Austria (cat.)
Galerie Christine Mayer, Munich (broch.)
Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin (broch.)
Rhona Hoffman, Chicago
2011
André Butzer, Kunsthistorisches Museum and CAC Contemporary Art Club at Theseustempel, Vienna
Sibirien Forellen Express 2001, Boris Dahlem und Henry Butzer, Galerie Guido W. Baudach (Charlottenburg), Berlin
André Butzer. Der wahrscheinlich beste abstrakte Maler der Welt, kestnergesellschaft, Hannover
André Butzer, xippas arte contemporaneo, Montevideo
André Butzer, Carbon 12 Gallery, Dubai
André Butzer, Galerie Guido W. Baudach (Charlottenburg), Berlin
Linoleum Prints, Silkscreen Prints, European Fine Arts, Berlin / Niklas Schechinger Fine Art, Hamburg
2010
André Butzer / Thomas Winkler, xippas gallery, Athens
André Butzer, Niklas Schechinger Fine Art, Berlin
André Butzer, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck
André Butzer, Agathe Bellomann Fine Art, Berlin
André Butzer / Maja Körner, Kunstverein Heppenheim, Heppenheim
Nicht fürchten! Don´t be scared!, Metro Pictures, New York
André Butzer, Galerie Christine Mayer, Munich
André Butzer, Galería Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid
2009
André Butzer, Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo
André Butzer, Alison Jacques, London
André Butzer, xippas galerie, Paris
André Butzer, Mario Sequeira, Braga
André Butzer, Studio Giangaleazzo Visconti, Milan
Viele Tote im Heimatland: Fanta, Sprite, H-Milch, Micky und Donald! Gemälde / Paintings, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg André Butzer, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
André Butzer, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
André Butzer, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad
2008 Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, Austria
Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin, Germany
Galerie Xippas, Athens, Greece
Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA (catalogue)
Metro Pictures Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Christine Mayer, München, Germany
Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland
2007
André Butzer, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad
Neue Bilder, Deutsche und Österreicher: schämt Euch! (with Marcel Hüppauff), GABRIELE SENN Galerie, Vienna
André Butzer, Alison Jacques Gallery, London
André Butzer, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Inc., Moscow
Friedens-Siemense (Teil 2), Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
2006
André Butzer, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck
André Butzer, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
N-Leben, Gió Marconi, Milan
Amerikanische Technik im Jahr 2017, Patrick Painter, Santa Monica
2005
N-Mädele in Volkstum-Technik, Galerie Christine Mayer, Munich
Aquarelle, GABRIELE SENN Galerie, Vienna
Neverworld Technik (with Andy Hope 1930), Kunstverein Ulm, Ulm
André Butzer, forever and a day, Berlin
Haselnuß, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
Griessbrei für alle!, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2004
André Butzer, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck
Das Ende vom Friedens-Siemens Menschentraum, Kunstverein Heilbronn, Heilbronn
André Butzer, Galerie Christine Mayer, Munich
Massenfrieden, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica
Frau vor dem N-Haus, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
2003
TODALL!, Galerie Hammelehle und Ahrens, Cologne
Chips und Pepsi und Medizin, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2002
Nasaheim-Blumen, Galerie Christine Mayer, Munich
Friedens-Siemense (Part 1), GABRIELE SENN Galerie, Vienna
Wanderung nach Annaheim, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
2001
André Butzer/Markus Selg, Galerie Hammelehle und Ahrens, Stuttgart, Germany
2000
Der Realismus bereut nichts!, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
1999
Ich bin Munch, Galerie Esther Freund, Vienna, Austria