Kalk by Jonas Burgert
The grotesque and the distorted provide the subject-matter of Jonas Burgert’s art. The atmosphere in his paintings is of a world of destruction and decay. Each painting is a carefully constructed stage, containing an artificial world set up with dramatic lighting, exotic costumes, stage props and sweeping staircases. As if set in the theatre or opera, fantastical make-up and costumes evoke humans and animals, shamans and magicians, giants and dwarfs, demons and harlequins, creatures dead and alive.
Rules and actions of this world and their inhabitants mostly remain mysterious and inexplicable to the viewer. However, whether Burgert’s actors are on their own or cramped together with countless other beings in a kind of contemporary history painting they have one thing in common: the loneliness of the individual. (via)
The artist is currently showing at Haunch of Venison London
jittagarn said:
woow!!
November 4th, 2009 at 12:03
michelle said:
Wow, I love the colours in these paintings…they are a little scary too…”I can see dead people”
November 5th, 2009 at 10:49
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[...]Kalk by Jonas Burgert[...]
November 6th, 2009 at 06:14
Gon said:
love this work, so expressive, so good. the way people aren’t there is wonderful.
November 10th, 2009 at 03:40
foxe said:
GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 12th, 2009 at 18:31