Fusing European expressionism with American popular culture, Andre
Butzer started painting his way through the artistic and political
extremes of the 20th century. With wide-ranging influences
including the likes of Friedrich Hoelderlin, Edvard Munch, Walt
Disney, and Henry Ford, he developed a fictitious universe centered
around the space colony NASAHEIM. There dwells the Peace-Siemens, a
friendly head-shape that combines utopian ideas with the economical
thinking of budding mass-consumerism, while a figure like the
Wanderer offers romantic projections, or the Shame-Human
reflections of the political past. This universe lends thematic
depth to the canvases, with the characters acting as protagonists
of paint, surrounding the N-House, home of all colors, in the style
the artist has termed "Science-Fiction Expressionism." Some years
into the new millennium, the colors took on a life of their own and
grew into abstract paintings of lines freewheeling across the
canvas. Moving closer to the limits of painting, from 2010 on
Butzer explored the fundamental dimensions and potentialities of
painterly expression in the seemingly black surfaces of his
N-Paintings. At this point, Butzer relocated to California in 2018,
painting outdoors year-round. The resulting works brim with
colorful freshness, an extended family of lines and figurations
with new attitudes refined by their experiences at the far edge of
abstraction. This is the first book to span the full range of
Butzer's oeuvre from 1999 to 2021, the works' progression gaining
an almost musical drive of development, return, and new beginnings.
The plates are interspersed with contemporary quotes from the
artist that illuminate his idiosyncratic stance as a background to
the work, as well as photos from his archives. The introductory
essay, written by Hans Werner Holzwarth, investigates the different
work phases, and places the artist's ideas in a wider discourse of
abstraction and figuration after the end of either genre. And, most
importantly, the book's pristine, huge-format illustrations fully
evidence the finesse as a colorist that place this artist among the
internationally most recognized painters of his generation.
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