Fritz Bornstück
Fritz Bornstück (born 1982) paints a depraved comic book universe. His pastose oil paintings create a space where fervid paint and black humor collide: hallucinogenic rainbows spurt from filthy drainage pipes, piles of old radios are wired together for a last concert, seemingly intelligent life forms develop in warm refrigerators and a hole in a fence is filled with paint as if the artist had just slipped through.
Bornstück works with objects he finds in his immediate surroundings and tells their stories in a playful and brutal manner. Simplified forms, gestural strokes and “pudding geometry” are characteristic of the demeanour of his loud still lifes and depictions of tragic heroes. Fritz Bornstück’s “100 paintings against hunger”, whose abrasive colourfulness refuse all ideals of beauty in an irritating and fascinating manner, are the best example of the at times thickly painted yet conceptually never pathos-ridden work of the young German artist.
Exhibitions in the gallery:
2010 01.10 - 06.11 Fritz Bornstück - My Love for You is like a Japanese Car (Copenhagen)
2010 09.07 - 25.09 Small Oil Paintings (group show) - curated by Eddie Martinez
2009 19.06 - 08.09 Fritz Bornstück - But it felt like a kiss (Berlin)
