Sylvester Engbrox

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Secondary Road, Lower Rhine (2009)

Sylvester Engbrox (* 1964 in Kleve ) is a German contemporary painter. He lives and works in Paris .

Life

In 1983 Engbrox graduated from high school in graphics. He then worked as a graphic designer, photo assistant and lighting technician. During this time he had the opportunity to work on a photo shoot with Wolfgang Flür from Kraftwerk . In 1984 he started painting. In 1986 he left Düsseldorf and moved to Paris. From 1988 to 1991 he studied photography at the Art School in Arles (France) with Arnaud Claas, Christian Milovanoff and Christian Gattinoni. During this time he worked as an assistant for Larry Fink in 1990 .

In 1999 he founded an independent label with two friends in Paris. He composed and arranged for the French group Sporto Kantes .

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The first works included in the catalog are from 1994: Helen, Hotel Aya, Air Disaster 1 . These are oil paintings painted on canvas based on pictures cut out of the press and of poor print quality. In his pictures, figures are usually placed in an improbable scenic space.

Sylvester Engbrox has also been taking photographs since 2015.

Tina, Flight Data Recorder (2009)

Quotes

  • “I started cutting out pictures from travel catalogs, TV magazines or other printed media fairly early on and sorting large quantities of these collected pictures according to a typology made up. Today I do this part of the job electronically, I find pictures on the Internet and take a lot of photos myself. Strangely enough, this actually completely useless inventory does not contribute to a better understanding of the world shown, on the contrary. The puzzle world only becomes more complicated due to the ever-increasing amount of images and viewpoints. But sorting and comparing the images sometimes creates bridges between them. If you are lucky, this confrontation will create a new picture. This is exactly the picture I paint without my involvement. My work is the result of this obsessional clean-up. " Sylvester Engbrox, February 2008.
  • “When a hard drive is about to run out, a reconstruction program tries to save some of the data . My pictures try to repair and redefine a time / space relationship that got mixed up after a crash and to incorporate into the painting the remains, pictures to which their original world is still attached. Sylvester Engbrox, February 2008.
  • «His painting is typical of our era. Clearly figurative and embedded in a long pictorial story, it confidently opens our imagination. It shows more efficiently than any discourse how the liveliness of painting thwarted technological progress and consumed it with relish. " Gérard Gamand, Azart, September 2008.
  • "In the flood of images on the web, Engbrox is not looking for images that could satisfy any longing / lust / passion through deception, but rather those that enable him to methodically paralyze this longing by making its machinery visible." Jean-Luc Chalumeau, Sylvester Engbrox, exhibition catalog, 2008.
  • «The artist sees himself as a switching mechanism, his role is that of a tool or a machine. Nothing is explained in his pictures, neither erotic, nor guilt, nor suffering. The painter concentrates on making visible. To be more precise, it is a play . " Max Torregrossa, Sylvester Engbrox, exhibition catalog, 2008.

Exhibitions

  • 2015: Under Pressure , Paris, Espace Dupin, group exhibition
  • 2014: broadcast , Paris, Galerie VivoEquidem, solo exhibition
  • 2013: S. Engbrox - Paintings , Paris, Fondation Atelier de Sèvres, solo exhibition
  • 2012: The Good and the Bad life , Paris, Galerie VivoEquidem, solo exhibition
  • 2012: La nuit de l'instant , Marseille, group exhibition
  • 2011: NordArt, Büdelsdorf, group exhibition
  • 2011: ArtParis, art fair
  • 2011: Lille Art Fair, Lille, art fair
  • 2011: Follow Me , Paris, Galerie VivoEquidem, solo exhibition
  • 2010: Lille Art Fair, Lille, art fair
  • 2009: Berliner Liste, Berlin, art fair
  • 2009: Glasgow Art Fair, Glasgow, art fair
  • 2009: Hyperceptions , Paris, Galerie VivoEquidem, solo exhibition
  • 2008: Engbrox , Paris, Galerie VivoEquidem, solo exhibition

literature

  • Max Torregrossa: Approches techniques . 2008, exhibition catalog.
  • Léo Pajon: Sylvester Engbrox . In: Arts Magazine , March 2008, p. 43.
  • Lydia Harambourg: Sylvester Engbrox . In: La Gazette de l'Hotel Drouot , No. 10, March 14, 2008, p. 278.
  • Jean-Luc Chalumeau: Sylvester Engbrox: Un déplacement du désir de peindre . In: Verso , No. 49, April 2008, pp. 24-25.
  • Gérard Gamand: Sylvester Engbrox - Les images du siècle . In: Azart , No. 34, September-October 2008, pp. 50-58
  • Ulrich Schönleber: Hyperceptions . ParisBerlin No. 44, September 2009, pp. 40-45.
  • Naissance de la Modernité, Mélanges offerts à Jacques Vilain . Editions du Relief, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-35904-000-5
  • Florence Besson: Elle , 3386, November 2010, p. 58.
  • In the galleries in December . In: Arts Magazine , No. 51, December 2010, p. 36.
  • Patrick Williams: Sylvester Engbrox, Follow Me . éditions VivoEquidem, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-9531926-1-2 , 80 pages
  • Miroir de l'art, No. 26, May 2011, pp. 10-15, No. 33, January 2012, p. 36
  • Qu'avez-vous fait de la photographie , p. 328 - 331, Actes Sud, 2012, ISBN 978-2-330-00534-4
  • Patrick Williams, Interview, Philosophy Magazine, No. 70, June 2013, p. 47

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.engbrox.com/underpressure.html
  2. ↑ http://www.engbrox.com/expo_2013_ads.html
personal data
SURNAME Engbrox, New Years Eve
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Kleve