Norbert Witzgall "Wir"
Venetia Kapernekas Gallery
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Witzgall's relationship to painting is rooted in his desire to consume photographic images, mostly mythologized portraits of stars, but also of relatives who feature in his family’s photo albums, especially those he never met. His interest in this long gone moment also comes through when he paints his contemporaries: his lovers, his artist friends are usually photographed in his studio before the process of painting can begin. This need to stylize and set a distance between himself and his subject matter also reverberates in his approach to his medium: his constant disbelief in this tradition, his unease with his own virtuosity results in additions and subtractions; dirt, glitter, day-glo stars, dried flowers, bark, chestnuts are added on the surface of the works to play down his obvious love of the brush.
[Image: Norbert Witzgall "Isi Baisia" (2008) oil on board & dirt 23 x 38 cm]
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from March 07, 2008 to April 12, 2008