ANDRÉ BUTZER et al.

Sonne, Mond und Sterne – mit der Tradition nicht brechen (group show)
Städtische Galerie, Ostfildern
19 January – 18 March 2025

André Butzer, Hohen-Lohe (f. Tante Lore), 2023, photo: def image
André Butzer, Hohen-Lohe (f. Tante Lore), 2023, photo: def image

Works by André Butzer are presented alongside Thomas Grötz and Philipp Haager in the group exhibition Sonne, Mond und Sterne – mit der Tradition nicht brechen, at Städtische Galerie, Ostfildern. The exhibition considers a longstanding human fascination with distant, unattainable realms. The dream of far-off galaxies, the afterlife or spirituality, in contrast to a cold, materialistic world, expresses a longing for infinity, sublimity and balance amidst excess. Creating such places of yearning in their paintings, Butzer, Grötz and Philipp open up spaces for thought and imagination.

Städtische Galerie

André Butzer, Hohen-Lohe (f. Tante Lore), 2023, photo: def image
André Butzer, Hohen-Lohe (f. Tante Lore), 2023, photo: def image

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ANDRÉ BUTZER

ANDRÉ BUTZER x SALON The International Art and Culture Magazine

Installation view: André Butzer, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, 2023, photo: Hélène Desplechin
Installation view: André Butzer, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, 2023, photo: Hélène Desplechin

SALON Magazine presents a marvellous feature, which brings to the fore André Butzer’s recent institutional exhibitions in Italy, Spain, Japan and Austria, complemented by 7 hand-drawn sketches reminiscent of the displays at the Museo Novecento, Museo Stefano Bardini, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Museum of the Light and St Nikolaus.

Installation view: André Butzer, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, 2023, photo: Hélène Desplechin
Installation view: André Butzer, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, 2023, photo: Hélène Desplechin

ANDRÉ BUTZER

Exhibitions Galerie Max Hetzler 2003–2022 (publication)
Published by Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London / Holzwarth Publications, 2022

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This new publication provides a compelling overview of exhibitions of André Butzer at Galerie Max Hetzler since his first with the gallery in 2003, charting his 17 solo and 10 group exhibitions in Berlin, Paris and London. Installation views and large-format illustrations of all exhibited works are accompanied by contemporary texts including reviews and catalogue essays.​ The book is now available for purchase on the Galerie Max Hetzler publications website. 

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ANDRÉ BUTZER

André Butzer (publication)
Published by TASCHEN
Edited by Hans Werner Holzwarth

Made in close collaboration with the artist, this unprecedented huge-format survey presents the future and origins of his painting according to André Butzer. From his early works of “Science Fiction Expressionism” that centered around a cast of figures at home both in space and in culturally occupied Europe, to his exploration of abstraction’s far limits in the seemingly black N-Paintings, Butzer emerges as an ever-inventive colorist who finds a new beginning in each work.

This is the first book first to span the full range of André 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.

“Expressionism was about going back to nature and nakedness, about inner more than outer space. Now we can give this field a new task—to be informed by seriality, post-industrialism, and modern mankind’s artificiality. So I include organic and non-organic parts, fake nature and fake human. Titian said painting is about flesh and water, and I say it is about flesh and lemonade.”

— André Butzer

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TASCHEN


ANDRÉ BUTZER

Press Releases, Letters, Conversations, Texts, Poems, Volume 3: 1999–2021 (publication)

All good things come in threes and so do André Butzer’s collected writings. The third volume is elegantly sharp and poignant. Editor Alexander Linn continues to explore the unique fictitious universe, Butzer calls »NASAHEIM«. Boldly touching on the latter’s own work and biography, art history as well as music in numerous letters, in-depth conversations and poems. Guided by the simple question: What is real?, Butzer searches for »the actual location of painting, the space in-between. It’s a very esoteric but easy to understand conception of truth.«

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