Andy Denzler

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Portrait photo of the artist Andy Denzler in the studio, photo: Lukas Mäder
The artist Andy Denzler in the studio. Photo: Lukas Mäder

Andy Denzler (born August 3, 1965 in Zurich ) is a Swiss artist . His unmistakable working technique of warping the freshly painted surface of the picture characterizes his entire work in painting, graphic art, sculpture and drawing.

Live and act

Exhibition view Ludwigmuseum Koblenz 2014
Exhibition view of Andy Denzler's solo exhibition in the Ludwigmuseum Koblenz 2014

Andy Denzler studied at the School of Applied Arts and the F + F School for Art and Design in Zurich as well as at the University of California, Los Angeles and the Art Center College of Design , Pasadena. In 2006 he graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from Chelsea College of Art and Design in London. Andy Denzler lives and works in Zurich today.

Exhibition view Kunstforum Wien 2018
Exhibition view of Andy Denzler's solo exhibition at the Kunstforum Wien 2018

Denzler's works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions in international galleries and museums in Europe, America, Asia and, since 2010, in Russia. His works are among others in the Denver Art Museum , the Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal, Canada, the David Roberts Art Foundation, London, Tel Aviv Museum of Modern Art, Israel, at the Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, in the White House and in the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC, in the Museum Würth in Schwäbisch Hall, the Burger Collection Hong Kong, the White Cube Collection in London, the Kunsthalle Rostock and in the KunstWerk of the Alison & Peter W. Klein collection , Eberdingen / Stuttgart.

" I speed up and slow down the color, " says the painter of his method. Through the streaks of the blurred surface of the picture, Denzler's paintings appear as if the time on them had congealed into abstraction. Andy Denzler's works move between reduction and stretched reality. Using the classic means of oil painting, the artist tries to explore the boundaries between the fictional and the real world. Through his mostly horizontal squeegee or smudging of the oil paint, which he previously applied to the canvas in heavy impasto and in thick layers, he achieved the impression of motion blur of the object or the impression of a distorted video recording. Time freezes. There are snapshots of what is happening, blurry, distorted movements, freeze frames that move stylistically between photorealism and abstract expressionism . Denzler often alludes to other media in his paintings.

reception

Denzler's works are snapshots of events that take place in the span of brief moments. Their movements are blurred and distorted, with an artificially smeared period of time that is prolonged into frozen eternity like the oscillating images of a VHS tape in a pause position. (art-in.de, November 23, 2014 )

The motifs are precisely set, but cannot be precisely localized due to the blurring of the edges. Accessories (such as rucksacks) define what is happening in the picture as now. The here and now does not seem static, however, but as realized in "fleeting images", in passing images, just as if the protagonists wanted to catch the fleeting butterfly of life with the nets of wonder (based on Glen Campbell). ( Gerhard Charles Rump , Die WELT, July 31, 2010)

Andy Denzler deals intensively and with interest with the medium and the ideal and representational possibilities of painting today, whereby he occupies an important and independent position in the international art scene and arouses great interest among collectors. (Tagesanzeiger, August 24, 2008)

Exhibitions (selection)

Biennials

2016

  • Not New Now, Marrakech Biennale 6, Marrakech
  • Memory and Dream, 6th Beijing International Art Biennale, Beijing

Solo exhibitions

2019

  • Paintings of Disruption , Opera Gallery, Seoul
  • Introspection , Opera Gallery, New York

2018

  • Human Perspectives , Opera Gallery, Zurich
  • The Dark Corner of the Human Mind , Kunstforum Wien
  • The Painter's Room , Opera Gallery, Paris

2017

  • Fragmented Identity , Opera Gallery, Monaco
  • Fragmented Figures , schultz contemporary, Berlin

2016

  • Random Noise, Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie, Zurich
  • Between Here and There , Opera Gallery, London

2015

  • Breakfast with Velázquez , schultz contemporary, Berlin
  • Just Another Day in Paradise , Brotkunsthalle, Vienna
  • Sequences , Opera Gallery, Geneva
  • Figures & Interiors , Ludwiggalerie Schloss Oberhausen

2014

  • Distorted Moments , Ludwig Museum, Koblenz
  • The Forgotten Palace , Budapest Art Factory, Budapest
  • Under my Skin , Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie, Zurich
  • Between the Fragments , Claire Oliver Gallery, New York

2013

2012

  • Interior / Exterior , Michael Schultz Gallery, Berlin
  • The Sounds of Silence and Distortion , Claire Oliver Gallery, New York
  • Shifting Landscapes , Kunsthalle Dresden
  • Developing Landscapes , Gwangju Art Museum, Gwangju, Korea

2011

  • Interiors , Fabian & Claude Walter Gallery , Zurich
  • Freeze Frame , Michael Schultz Gallery, Seoul
  • Dissonance and Contemplation , Claire Oliver Gallery, New York

2010

  • The Human Nature Project , schultz contemporary, Berlin
  • Distorted Fragements , Art + Art Gallery, Moscow

2009

  • Motion Paintings , Galerie von Braunbehrens, Munich

2008

2007

  • Blur Motion Paintings , Galerie von Braunbehrens, Munich
  • Insomnia , Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon

2006

  • Fusion Paintings , Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles
  • Moon Safari , Chelsea College, University of the Arts, London

2005

  • American Paintings , Kashya Hildebrand, New York

2004

  • Blur Motion Abstracts , Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles

2002

  • White Paintings , Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Retrospective exhibition in the summer of 2018 at the Kunstforum Wien Bank Austria [1]
  2. ↑ Burger Collection Hong Kong, works from 2005 and 2006 [2]
  3. ^ Andy Denzler in the press release on the exhibition Fragmented Figures , Galerie schultz contemporary, November 2017. [3]
  4. ↑ Andy Denzler, Distorted Moments , Ludwig Museum Koblenz, November 23, 2014 [4]
  5. ^ Gerhard Charles Rump: Narrated, painted, blurred: Andy Denzler in Berlin. In: The world . July 31, 2010, accessed December 10, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Denzler, Andy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich