Norbert Bisky

KAMPF DEM ALLTAG

Norbert Bisky belongs to the most successful young artists of Germany. Starting November 21, paintings entitled KAMPF DEM ALLTAG will be shown at Galerie Terminus.

Bisky is a master student of Georg Baselitz and Jim Dine. His work is based on a wide spectrum of technical abilities and art-historical influences, i.e. Rococo as well as postimpressionism and Pop Art. During the first years Bisky especially used memories of his youth in the German Democratic Republic in order to contrast his experiences with modern conflicts of western culture. Provoking socialist-style ideology combined with the disturbing disastrous realm of pictures of a seemingly unstoppable global culture becomes a hypnotic suction of ironic aesthetic.
One is looking in vain for the resulting conflict, the irritating contradiction. Beautiful young people with cut off bleeding heads in the hands are in front of bright summer landscapes. Pastel colours and big, white spaces create harmony even if it seems that thematically it doesn’t fit.
Norbert Bisky’s works seduce and provoke. They analyze and focus on a conflict of modern societies, which can’t be polarized in black and white terms and which leaves a lasting impression at 2nd sight – not on canvas but in the minds of the observers.