Professional bias

At first, they look like corrupt high resolution photographs, damaged by a bad Internet connection. Then you find out that the author, Andy Denzler, is an expressionist painter who only works with canvas, oil and acrylic.

For over 10 years, Andy's style had been abstract, with vague references to nature. Then, the shades of cinema and photo film appeared on his palette of colours. Denzler thus tried to adapt his abstract vocabulary to a figurative, wild and stratified language.

We can notice this from his series, "American Paintings" (2005), where he started to fish views out of the imaginary of popular culture and find new contexts for them in distorted and ambiguous landscapes.

Even though the origin of the photographic and film subjects in many of his paintings is explicit, Denzler immortalises them in the gesture of vision, as though the film had remained exposed for too long during a panoramic film shot.

As though the flaws of the .jpg or .mpg files, and all the corrupt data that the industry of the contemporary imaginary eliminates ruthlessly, were put back into circulation in his oil and acrylic paintings, with just as much shamelessness. Reminding us, amid brushstrokes and blade strikes, that the chaos of vision is also here, in the glossiest TV advert.




























Photos from andydenzler.com

28 July 2011