Mitja Tušek

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Mitja Tušek (* 12. May 1961 in Maribor ) is a Slovenian - Swiss - Belgian painter .

Mitja Tušek grew up in Slovenia until he was six years old, before his family moved with him to Switzerland in 1967. From 1984 to 1986 he studied at the l'Ecole supérieure d'art visuel (ESAV) in Geneva at Silvie and Chérif Defraoui . It was in this environment that, in addition to the Defraoui couple, he found other artist friends who accompanied him in his life and in his art, including Marie José Burki , Robert Suermondt , Eric Lanz and Bernard Voïta . In the years 1985 to 1986 Tušek made the acquaintance of Denys Zacharopoulos . In 1987 Tušek left Geneva and later settled in Brussels with several of his artist colleagues and his wife Marie José Burki to live and work there.

Mitja Tušek's paintings, which often have photographs as a starting point, draw attention to themselves through their material. The pigments mixed with wax are applied to canvas in up to twenty layers with a brush. Luminous colors, shades of red, yellow and violet, stacked or mixed, allow the layers of color underneath to shine through and thus come to life.

In 1992 Mitja Tušek participated in documenta IX in Kassel, in 1993 in the exhibition The Sublime Void in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts (Antwerp) and in 1997 Abstractions provisoires in the Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne .

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  1. ^ Galerie Bernard Ceysson Mitja Tušek , accessed on September 5, 2016 (English).
  2. ↑ Kurjakovic, DANIEL Tušek, Mitja. In: Sikart (status: 1998), accessed on September 5, 2016.
  3. ↑ Frieze, Michael Taran, September 11, 1995 Mitja Tušek , accessed on September 5, 2016 (English).
  4. ↑ Documenta IX: Kassel, June 13th-20th September 1992 - catalog in three volumes, volume 1, page 231; Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-89322-380-0
personal data
SURNAME Tušek, Mitja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovenian, Swiss-Belgian painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Maribor