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André Butzer. Thüringer Wald – Works on Paper

André Butzer Untitled (Todes-Blei), 2001 Ink on paper - contemporary drawing, drawings, work on paper, contemporary art, art on paper

André Butzer

Untitled (Todes-Blei), 2001
Ink on paper
29.7 x 21 cm

André ButzerThüringer Wald (Works on Paper 2001–2022)
5 November 2022 – 7 January 2023
Nino Mier Gallery

André Butzer
Untitled, 2002
Watercolor and pencil on paper
48.2 x 66 cm

[from the pressrelease]
Thüringer Wald (Works on Paper 2001–2022) is a survey of the past two decades. This selection of works on paper captures the full expressive diversity of André Butzer’s practice. The formal range present in these works, reflects his thematic interest in the opposing poles of modernity: its horrors, particularly those of 20th century Germany, and its wonders. 

Figuration and abstraction always are one upon Butzer’s highly chromatic and solidified picture planes. Certain images and forms repeat across the papers in circuits. Works containing tangles of scribbles or intersecting bands of color lay bare the apparatus of representation. Other works appropriate pinnacles of painterly representation—like a reproductions of Raphael’s famous self-portrait, inscribed with a large, red N for Butzer’s utopian place in space that is his NASAHEIM.  

Regarding Butzer’s works on paper, Gwen Allen, professor of art history and director of the School of Art at San Francisco State University, writes: “As a draftsman, Butzer is as fiercely uninhibited as he is a painter, employing a vast repertoire of linear expression […]. If, at the dawn of modernist abstraction, such expressive license served as a foil to the mechanization of the industrial age, Butzer’s drawings prompt us to consider what such properties might signify today, in our own post-industrial—and increasingly post-human—era.” 

André Butzer
Untitled, 2019
Pencil on paper
54.6 x 35.6 cm

André Butzer
Untitled (ALL! ALL!), 2019
Watercolor, crayon, and pencil on paper
35.6 x 27.9 cm

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