Schwäebische
Kunstverein: André Butzer Paints His Way Through German History
February 10, 2023
"You have to paint your way through everything," André Butzer once said. It is impossible for the artist, who was born in Stuttgart in 1973, to begin a picture without preconditions and without any worries. What weighs on him is the entire 20th century - its art, its bloody history, its mass culture. Just the whole mess. And by putting these references together, he creates paintings for our present that has gotten out of joint.
