Michael Burges

Michael Burges (* 1954 in Düsseldorf ) is an international artist . He lives and works in Düsseldorf and Italy .

Life

Michael Burges has been writing short stories and poetry since 1970 . At the same time he began to draw and to deal with object art and experimental music. He studied sociology at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf (1973–1974), and from 1974 to 1984 he did his master's degree in comparative religious studies , ethnology and Indology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität . From 1977 onwards he was occupied with acoustic environments, performances and installations . In 1981 he began to work with the American painter Douglas Swan (1930-2000) and took up the study of painting himself , in which in 1983 abstract was chosen for himself.

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Burges himself divides his work into several series that pursue a central aspect: An early series “CESM Paintings” (for “Color Energy and Space Matrix”) examines the visual interactions of color and space and energy. He also practices “controlled” action painting through references to music as a structured sound . The " Shunyata Paintings" (late 1990s) refer to the ideas of "emptiness" and "relativity" in Mahayana Buddhism and in Tibetan and Chinese philosophy.

“Here a new dimension of painting opens up in that painting is really transcended, giving up its physical location, which can be determined by the perception of the beholder, and moving to where the picture really becomes a picture: in the mind of the beholder. What is also conceptually decisive here is that the image seen can be perceived but not located: it floats freely in space, changes through the movement of the viewer, nobody knows where it actually is, except that it is in the head works. "

The “Hybrid Paintings” experiment with the combination of different image strategies and contradicting techniques. The “Refraction Paintings” deal with light in its “shining” (Arabic “dh”) and reflective (Arabic “only”), and “broken” (Burges) form. In the “Reverse Glass Paintings” Michael Burges takes up previous themes and he processes them in a variety of colors, patterns and pictorial forms behind acrylic glass panels .

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2015 Gold , Galerie RotherWinter, in the marble hall Henkell & Co , Wiesbaden
• 2013 Reverse Glass Paintings , OMC Gallery of Contemporary Art, Huntington Beach , Los Angeles County , California
• 2012 Gold , Galerie Unteres Belvedere , Vienna
• 2011 Impact of Colors - Reverse Glass Paintings , Lausberg Gallery, Düsseldorf
• 2010 Reverse Glass Paintings , Lausberg Contemporary, Toronto , Canada
• 2009 Paintings 2003-2008 , Galérie Pascal Verhoeke, Paris
• 2008 Michael Burges 2002-2008 , Leeahn Gallery, Daegy, Korea
• 2007 Color, Space, Energy , Mönchehaus Museum , Goslar
• 2004 Painting, Scoeni Art Gallery , Hong Kong
• 2001 Selected Works , Städtische Galerie Gladbeck
• 1998 Selected Works 1990-1998 , Reichsabtei Aachen-Kornelimünster
• 1995 painting , Museum Folkwang , Essen
• 1995 painting , Von der Heydt-Museum , Wuppertal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Burges in the ranking of artfacts.net .
2. ↑ See Ute Riese, Michael Burges , in: New Abstract Painting - Abstract Painting Now, Leverkusen, Museum Morsbroich (catalog) 2003.
3. ↑ See Gerhard Charles Rump , reconstructions. Positions of contemporary art , Berlin, B&S Siebenhaar Verlag, 2010.
4. ↑ Cf. Gerhard Charles Rump, A New Dimension in Painting , in: Die Welt online, August 27, 2005.
5. ↑ See also Thomas van Zütphen, Design Homestorys: The overall impression is decisive , in: Focus online , January 18, 2010, p. 3 below.
6. ↑ See New Year's Reception in the Sign of Behind Glass Art , in: Augsburger Allgemeine online, January 15, 2011.
7. ↑ Exhibition views and press release from the museum.
8. ^ Archive of the museum.

Web links

• Burges' homepage

smart-collectors presents Michael Burges on YouTube , accessed April 13, 2020.