André Butzer
André Butzer. Set of 9 Screenprints ‘Untitled 1–9’', 2021
Nine two-color screen prints on handmade Hahnemühle paper (300 g/m²), each 70 x 50 cm, numbered and signed by the artist
Edition of 75
Each screen print numbered, signed and dated by André Butzer
9783836591652
Copyright The Artist
Photo: TASCHEN
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Fusing European Expressionism with American pop culture, while taking in wide-ranging influences from the likes of Friedrich Hölderlin, Walt Disney, and Henry Ford, André Butzer has created a fascinating pictorial...
Fusing European Expressionism with American pop culture, while taking in wide-ranging influences from the likes of Friedrich Hölderlin, Walt Disney, and Henry Ford, André Butzer has created a fascinating pictorial universe since the late 1990s, centering around the space colony of NASAHEIM. This exclusive set of screen prints takes up the three central characters from this world that embody the fundamental themes of the artist’s work.
The nine screen prints in this exclusive limited-edition set of 75 copies were handmade from start to finish: each of the colors was carefully mixed from real pigments and the screen prints were then hand-printed on handmade Hahnemühle paper. The paper, the printing process, as well as the inks are all CO2 neutral and organic.
Each motif presents one of Butzer’s unique pictorial characters, which embody the fundamental themes of his work since 1999:
The Wanderer, longing for a place of his own and homelessly walking the earth, was inspired by Friedrich Hölderlin’s fateful character Hyperion and is to some extent the artist’s alter ego or even a self-portrait.
The Woman, most central in Butzer’s pictorial universe, is life force personified and the only one able to mediate between the mundane world and the unattainable place in space that is NASAHEIM, where all colors are preserved.
The Friedens-Siemens (Peace-Siemens) is the embodiment of vision itself. A threshold being, gazing at the past and future with wide open eyes, witnessing industrial devastation and envisioning a utopian peaceful existence.
Exclusively made for TASCHEN, this set of nine screen-prints includes the complete series: ‘Untitled 1–9’, 2021. Edition of 75 copies per print, each numbered and signed by André Butzer. Also available in single sets of three screen-prints each: ‘Untitled 1–3’, 2021, ‘Untitled 4–6’, 2021, and ‘Untitled 7–9’, 2021, each numbered and signed by André Butzer.
“I try to repeat all my images as often as possible and as well as possible to make them less severe. So, I do mass culture. At the same time, seriality is something I always wanted to destroy. That’s why I make so many seemingly serial works which are in fact not serial at all. This was the case with the figures, which were typologies that seemingly unfolded serially. Signs of life. They perhaps address the large soul space of human localization. Each figure is an individual and each image is individual.” André Butzer
The artist: André Butzer was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1973. For more than 25 years he has painted his way through the extremes of the 20th century, exploring art, politics, and pop culture. Paintings for him are “localizations of the greatest despair and the greatest hope,” which is exactly why “they come closest to the very joy and aid we are in dire need of.” After spending several years in California, he now lives in the southwest of Berlin and is one of the most internationally recognized painters of his generation.
The nine screen prints in this exclusive limited-edition set of 75 copies were handmade from start to finish: each of the colors was carefully mixed from real pigments and the screen prints were then hand-printed on handmade Hahnemühle paper. The paper, the printing process, as well as the inks are all CO2 neutral and organic.
Each motif presents one of Butzer’s unique pictorial characters, which embody the fundamental themes of his work since 1999:
The Wanderer, longing for a place of his own and homelessly walking the earth, was inspired by Friedrich Hölderlin’s fateful character Hyperion and is to some extent the artist’s alter ego or even a self-portrait.
The Woman, most central in Butzer’s pictorial universe, is life force personified and the only one able to mediate between the mundane world and the unattainable place in space that is NASAHEIM, where all colors are preserved.
The Friedens-Siemens (Peace-Siemens) is the embodiment of vision itself. A threshold being, gazing at the past and future with wide open eyes, witnessing industrial devastation and envisioning a utopian peaceful existence.
Exclusively made for TASCHEN, this set of nine screen-prints includes the complete series: ‘Untitled 1–9’, 2021. Edition of 75 copies per print, each numbered and signed by André Butzer. Also available in single sets of three screen-prints each: ‘Untitled 1–3’, 2021, ‘Untitled 4–6’, 2021, and ‘Untitled 7–9’, 2021, each numbered and signed by André Butzer.
“I try to repeat all my images as often as possible and as well as possible to make them less severe. So, I do mass culture. At the same time, seriality is something I always wanted to destroy. That’s why I make so many seemingly serial works which are in fact not serial at all. This was the case with the figures, which were typologies that seemingly unfolded serially. Signs of life. They perhaps address the large soul space of human localization. Each figure is an individual and each image is individual.” André Butzer
The artist: André Butzer was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1973. For more than 25 years he has painted his way through the extremes of the 20th century, exploring art, politics, and pop culture. Paintings for him are “localizations of the greatest despair and the greatest hope,” which is exactly why “they come closest to the very joy and aid we are in dire need of.” After spending several years in California, he now lives in the southwest of Berlin and is one of the most internationally recognized painters of his generation.