Now this is an artist I was not familiar with at all, and it doesn’t surprise me because I do not like any of his works. So why am I writing about him? Because he is an artist, he is part of Art History and because one of my favourite museums in Madrid, the Thyssen-Bornemisza is doing a retrospective of his work….
André Butzer was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1973 (then West Germany). He now lives in Rangsdorf, a small, but beautiful municipality not far from Berlin. He is supposed to be a «semi-abstract» painter, (whatever that is, if someone knows, please explain it to me). His main interest, supposedly, are comics. His work, as you will see, is infantile and rather naif. He uses mainly (I would even venture to say exclusively) primary colours, unmixed and most likely just squeezed from the tube. He doesn’t seem to me to spend too much time thinking about composition or colour scheme and when it comes to titling his work he doesn’t even think at all as most of his paintings are titled «Untitled.»
Most of his exhibitions have been in his native land and this retrospective in Madrid is the only one he has ever had outside of it. Here are some of the paintings (22 in total) that you will see should you choose to attend.
Cheers…
