【博而励北京】安德烈·布特兹中国首展将于3月2日开幕

安德烈·布特兹

博而励北京

2019年3月2日 - 4月14日

博而励画廊荣幸呈现艺术家安德烈·布特兹（André Butzer）在北京的首次个展，这是画廊继2018年“5 X Berlin 柏林五人展”后再度推出德国艺术家的展览。展览包含艺术家自2018年以来创作的布面丙烯作品和铅笔手稿。展览将于2019年3月2日正式开幕，并参加北京画廊周的系列活动和项目。

安德烈·布特兹的创作主要围绕绘画媒介和其历史展开。自90年代中期以来，他的彩色绘画开始在国际艺术界获得广泛认可。尽管被普遍界定为一位表现主义画家，但布特兹的作品深度和广度揭示了他对于风格、媒介、构成和主题在各个层面上的推演。艺术家生命中早期接触到死亡的概念使其绘画实践渗透了对生命和死亡本质的思考，他的绘画行为因此与极端的存在体验密不可分；在看似无穷尽的循环之中，这些画面成为生命两级彼此间的映照与反思。每一次风格或主题上的迭代都受到了过往传统的影响——过去常常将我们推向绘画的当下与未来。

布特兹的 “未命名”（2018）布面丙烯绘画系列，描绘了一个个大眼睛的卡通形象，它们被置于绚丽的单色背景中。这些形象最初从流行文化和艺术史杰作中获得大量借鉴，并根据艺术家生活的起伏变化而继续演变和转化。2018年，布特兹搬往洛杉矶生活——“黄金州”的自然环境显然影响了艺术家对背景上单色和充满活力的色调的选择。与此同时，布特兹脱离了过往艺术实践中的文化语境，其丰富且混沌的表现主义画面化简为对祛背景化个体形象的描绘——这与20世纪中叶美国的乐观主义并驾齐驱。

展览同时呈现布特兹的一系列自由手绘的纸上铅笔画，它们是那些大尺寸布面绘画作品的原始草图，为理解艺术家的整体创作提供了详实的细节线索。值得注意的是，在很多图纸上都出现了字母“N”，也就是Nasaheim——由Nasa（有极度遥远的距离、超乎想象和存在于世界之外的意思）和 heim（家）组成的德语合并词——的缩写。作为布特兹实践的核心，这个合成新词表达了一种均衡状态和一个“未被触碰的”场域，所有的苦难都在此找到了慰藉和终结。因此，在这些卡通人物渲染的乐观情绪下，一股揉杂了熟悉和怪诞、亲密和远隔感的暗流，持续在艺术家与绘画的关系中发挥着重要作用。

布特兹自2018年开始创作的“未命名”系列，标志着艺术家生活和事业的重要转折，见证了艺术家在日益全球化的世界中——文化线索在转换和交叉互换中形成新的迭代——不断变化的视觉表达方式。更重要的是，布特兹的作品邀请观众在全球化背景下反思自身的文化、政治、以及个人立场。

安德烈·布特兹（1973年出生于德国斯图加特），2000年毕业于汉堡的伊索特洛普艺术学院，现生活工作于洛杉矶。他曾在诸多美术馆和艺术机构举办个展，其中包括：“歌德有趣的人”，尼诺·米尔画廊，洛杉矶（2019）；“安德烈·布特兹：请给我冰激淋（1999）”，麦克斯·赫茨勒画廊，伦敦（2018）；“安德烈·布特兹”，罗伊特林根艺术协会，德国（2016）等。他的作品永久收藏于：普拉达基金会（米兰）、戈兹收藏馆（慕尼黑）、萨奇收藏（伦敦）、芝加哥大学（芝加哥）、新旧艺术博物馆（雅斯塔马尼亚的霍巴特）、斯图加特艺术博物馆、鲁贝尔收藏馆（迈阿密）、洛杉矶当代艺术博物馆、洛杉矶美术馆、哈默尔艺术博物馆（洛杉矶）、汉堡火车站现代艺术博物馆（柏林）、尼姆当代艺术博物馆艺术广场、凤凰城艺术博物馆。

André Butzer, Untitled ／ 2018 ，acrylic on canvas, 180 x 130 cm ? André Butzer 图片由博而励画廊提供，摄影：杨超摄影工作室 Courtesy the artist & Boers-Li Gallery, Photography: Yang Chao Photography Studio

André Butzer

Boers-Li Gallery Beijing

March 2 – April 14, 2019

Boers-Li Gallery is delighted to present André Butzer's first solo exhibition in Beijing, marking the gallery’s continuous interest to collaborate with German artists since the latest “5 X Berlin” exhibition in 2018. The works on view comprise of the artist’s most recent acrylic paintings and pencil drawings from 2018. The exhibition opens on March 2, 2019, and will take part in the programs and events during the Gallery Weekend Beijing.

André Butzer develops his works exclusively around the medium of painting and its history. Since his colorful paintings were first unveiled in the mid-1990s, they have continuously amassed accolades worldwide. Known explicitly as an expressionist painter, the breadth of Butzer’s oeuvre however reveals a tremendous amount of evolution in practically all aspects of his craft: style, medium, composition and subject matter. With early exposure to the notion of death in his life, his act of painting is inextricably linked to the experience of these existential polarities, where one becomes a self-reflection of the other in a seemingly endless cycle of paradigm. Every new iteration of style or subject is influenced by what came before it -– the past always brings us to the present and future of painting.

Butzer’s Unlimited series of acrylic paintings on canvas depict wide-eyed cartoon-like characters on exuberantly monochromatic backgrounds. These figurative motifs, at their first conception, have strung together references from pop-culture to art-historical masterpieces, and continue to evolve and transform according to the shifting conditions of the artist’s life. In 2018, Butzer relocated to Los Angeles. It is apparent that the natural environment of the golden state may have impacted on the artist’s choice for monochrome and vibrant hues on the background of these canvases. At the same time, being culturally removed from his former artistic habitat, Butzer’s namesake expressionist style that engendered chaotic imageries has been reduced to embrace voluntary isolation - one that strikes a chord with the mid-twentieth century American optimism.

On display are also Butzer’s series of free-hand pencil drawings on paper, that is as much about the artist’s first sketches of the original motifs of figurations for these large-dimensional works on canvas, as they offer details to dive into his vast body of works. Notably, among many of these drawings, we find the letter “N”, formally named NASAHEIM after a German portmanteau for the word Nasa (extreme distance, what occurs far away in our imagination, beyond the world) and heim (home). Central to Butzer’s practice, this composite neologism conveys a state of equilibrium and represents an “untouched” site, where all suffering finds solace and comes to an end. Hence, inasmuch as the vibrant compositions of cartoon-like characters provide a sense of optimism, the undercurrent dualities between familiarity and oddity, intimacy and remoteness continue to play a prevalent role in the artist’s relationship to painting.

The presentation of Andre Butzer’s Untitled from 2018, marking a pivotal moment of the artist’s life and career, bears witness to an artist’s shifting visual articulations in an increasingly globalized world where cultural cues translate and cross-pollinate into new iterations. Furthermore, Butzer’s series of works invites its viewers to reflect upon one's own conditions with regards to the cultural, political and personal positions within this global context. 

André Butzer, Untitled ／ 2018 ，pencil on paper, 22.9 x 30.5 cm ? André Butzer 图片由博而励画廊提供，摄影：杨超摄影工作室 Courtesy the artist & Boers-Li Gallery, Photography: Yang Chao Photography Studio

André Butzer (born 1973, Stuttgart), graduated from Hamburg Akademie Isotrop in 2000, currently lives and works in Los Angeles. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions in art galleries and art institutions including Goethe komischer Mann, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles (2019); André Butzer – 1, Eis Bitte! (1999), Galerie Max Hetzler, London (2018); André Butzer, Kunstverein Reutlingen, Germany (2016) among others. His work has been acquired by numerous public collections, such as the Prada Foundation (Milan), the Goetz Collection (Munich), the Saatchi Collection (London), the University of Chicago (Chicago), the Museum of Old and New Art (Hobart, Tasmania), the Kunstmuseum in Stuttgart, the Rubell Collection (Miami), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles), the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart (Berlin), Carré d’art, Musée d’art Contemporain, N?me, and the Phoenix Art Museum (Phoenix) 

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