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Norbert Bisky (born 1970) is a German painter based in Berlin, best known for his frescos depicting adolescents.[1] He was born at Leipzig in the former German Democratic Republic. The son of a Communist official, he grew up in a home in which Communism assumed the power of a religion.[1] He studied from the mid 1990s at the Hochschule der Künste where he was a master student of Georg Baselitz in Berlin and at the Salzburg Summer Academy in the class of Jim Dine. His work is greatly influenced by the socialist realism which was the official art of the GDR. In recent years he has shifted to darker themes of disaster, disease and decapitation while retaining the consummate painterliness which is the hallmark of his work. His figures, in many cases are floating, falling, tumbling, without any gravitational axis. The tumult surrounding the figures is punctuated by the cross pollination of cues from Christian ideology, art history, gay culture, pornography and apocalyptic visions. Bisky transmits an impression of instability on the canvas that distinctly resonates with our contemporary state of affairs.
2010 "befall", Galerie Crone, Berlin 2009 "Mandelkern", Kunstverein Dortmund, Germany 2008 "cloud cuckoo land", Gallery Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai 2007 "What's wrong with me" Leo Koenig Inc., NYC 2006 "Total Care", Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius 2005 Studio d´Arte Cannaviello, Milan 2004 "The Proud, the Few", Leo Koenig Inc., NYC 2003 "Schlachteplatte", Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin 2002 Museum Junge Kunst, Frankfurt/O. 2001 "Wir werden siegen", Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin
MoMA
^ Mullins, 2006, p. 142
Mullins, Charlotte (2006). Painting People: Figure Painting Today. New York: D.A.P. ISBN 978-1-933045-38-2
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