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BRUNO GRIESELNEUE LEIPZIGER SCHULE

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IMPRESSUM

© Atelier Bruno Griesel, 2012Herausgeber: Christian SchmelzerText: Thorsten HinzÜbersetzung: tolingo GmbH, HamburgHerstellung: Druckerei Lippert, BerlinAuflage: 50

www.bruno-griesel.de

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BRUNO GRIESELNEUE LEIPZIGER SCHULE

Seit seinem Studium der Zeichnung und Malerei an der Hochschule für Grafik und

Buchkunst Leipzig in den 1980er Jahren bei den Lehrern Volker Stelzmann, Wolfgang Peuker und Bernhard Heisig setzt sich Griesel mit einem naturalistischen und figurativen Malstil ausei-nander. Er entdeckt seine Liebe zur Malerei des Barock und der damit verbundenen Genre (bib-lische Historie, Andachtsbild, Porträt), Themen und Motive. Tiefe Empfindungen und schmel-zende Farbigkeit waren die malerischen Werte dieser Zeit, die Griesel so faszinieren. Eine weite-re Inspirationsquelle für die Vertiefung mytholo-gischer Themen sind die von Winkelmann so be-zeichneten Eklektiker oder Renaissancisten aus Bologna und Venedig des frühen 17. Jahrhunderts. Doch auch die Inkunabeln der Avantgarde regen ihn zu malerischen Experimenten an: Musik, Rhythmus, Dynamik verbinden sich mit frei erfundenen, geometrischen oder abstrakten Formen und einer kognitiven Farbigkeit und er-öffnen breite Assoziationsfelder, in denen »alles für alles»»» stehen kann. Kasimir Malewitsch begründete mit seinem gemalten schwarzen Quadrat im Jahr 1916/18 den Beginn einer neuen Kunstrichtung, des Suprematismus. Diese radi-kale Reduktion der Malerei auf Form und Farbe gilt bis heute als Wegweiser der Erneuerung von

Kunst und Gesellschaft und Ikone der Moderne. Die Zweckbestimmung abstrakter Malerei als Ikone und Mittel zum Gebet, d.h. der stillen Zwiesprache zwischen Betrachter und heiligem Stellvertreter, nimmt Griesel in seinen Gemälden wiederholt zitierend auf. Vor die Folie avant-gardistischer Kunstgeschichte setzt Griesel sei-ne Symbole und Inhalte und erzeugt damit eine spannungsvolle Synthese abstrakter Figuration bzw. figurativer Abstraktion.

Sein intensives Ringen mit Inkunabeln der Kunstge-schichte und deren ap-perzeptive Übertra-gung auf sein Werk ist Beispiel für ei-ne leipzigtypi-sche Form des Traditionalis-mus, der in seiner Rätsel-haftigkeit den B e t r a c h t e r immer wieder aufs Neue her-ausfordert. In Griesels farben-

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kräftigen und zugleich feinfühligen Darstellungen von Landschaften sowie von Frauen (Tänzerinnen) und Paaren geht es nicht um die individuelle Charakterisierung der Figuren. Vielmehr sind sie Akteure einer geisti-

gen Haltung, Ausdruck der Kom position, die in ihrer

Bestimmung die Ver-einfachung und

Typisierung der fi-gürlichen Form bei spie l swei se auf Ele mente des Tan zes und der Bewegung

zeigen. Die my-thologische und bi-

blische Folie, vor der die Akteure erscheinen

ist gleichsam eine Hilfe für des Malers (und auch des Rezi-

pienten) sinnlich-sittliche Analyse, als deren Ergebnis nicht selten diebisches Vergnügen an Stimmungen, Schönheit und Dekor erscheint.

Gefragt nach seiner Auffassung von Malerei ant-wortete Picabia »Sie besteht darin, sie zu ver-gessen und sie als ein optisches Vergnügen an-

zusehen, da meiner Meinung nach alles dekora-tiv ist.« Viele Gemälde Picabias wirken deshalb wie fotografische Überblendungen, die hedonis-tisch die Kunstgeschichte durchdeklinieren, oh-ne besondere Vorlieben, höchstens für nackte weibliche Körper oder Liebespaare. Wenngleich nicht derart radikal, ein Assoziationsfeld bei der Betrachtung von Griesels Werken ist verbunden mit den Begriffen von Kitsch und Eklektizismus. Erstaunlich also, dass ein Künstler der jungen Generation, sowie der neuen Leipziger Schule wie Griesel trotz des ganzen Nachdenkens über Modernismus und Antimodernismus und trotz des Bewusstseins vom Bilderbe wieder bei der Faszination des Malens landet.

Thorsten HinzKunsthistoriker und Kunstwissenschaftler, Leipzig

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Since studying drawing and painting at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig in the

1980s with the teachers Volker Stelzmann, Wolfgang Peuker and Bernhard Heisig, Griesel has developed a naturalistic and figurative style of painting. He discovered a love for Baroque painting and the genres (Biblical history, devoti-onal paintings, portraits), themes and motifs as-sociated with it. Powerful sentiments and a mel-ting colourfulness are the artistic values of the age that fascinate Griesel so much. A further source of inspiration for the development of my-thological themes is offered by what Winkelmann calls the Eclecticists or Renaissancists of early 17th century Bologna and Venice. And yet, the incunabula of the avant-garde also inspire him to experiment in painting: music, rhythm and dy-namics are linked with imaginary geometric or abstract shapes and a cognitive colourfulness, and open wide frames of reference in which »eve-rything« can stand for »everything else«. With his painted black square in 1916/18, Kazimir Malevich established the beginnings of a new di-rection in art, Suprematism. This radical reduc-tion of painting to form and colour is still regar-ded today as a signpost to the renewal of art and society and an icon of modernism. Griesel repea-tedly makes reference in his pictures to the speci-

fic function of abstract painting as an icon and a medi-um of pray-er: that is, the silent dialogue between the ob-server and the repre-sentative of the divine. Griesel places his symbols and sub-jects against the backdrop of the history of avant-garde art, thereby creating an exciting synthesis of abstract figuration and figurative abstraction.

His intensive struggle with the incunabula of art history and their apperceptive translation into his work is an example of the typical Leipzig form of traditionalism, whose mysteriousness repeatedly presents new challenges to the observer. In Griesel‘s vibrantly coloured and yet sensitive re-presentations of landscapes, women (dancers) and couples, it is not a question of the individual characterisation of the figures. Rather, they are representatives of an intellectual position, the ex-pression of the composition, which show in their design the simplification and typification of the

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figurative form in, for example, ele-ments of dance and movement. The mythologi-cal and Biblical

backdrops against which the figures

appear are, as it we-re, an aid to the

painter‘s (and the reci-pient‘s) sensual-moral analysis,

the result of which often appears as a mischievous pleasure in atmospheres, beauty and decor.

Asked about his conception of painting, Picabia answered, »It consists in forgetting about it and regarding it as an optical pleasure, since in my opinion everything is decorative.« Many pain-tings by Picabia therefore seem like photographs with cross-fading, which hedonistically examine art history from every angle, without particular preference, apart from for naked female bodies or lovers. If not quite as radical as this, one frame of reference for looking at Griesel‘s works is linked with the notions of kitsch and eclecticism. It is therefore astonishing that, in spite of all of the re-

flections on modernism and anti-modernism and an awareness of the heritage of painting, an artist of the young generation and the New Leipzig School like Griesel ends up once again with a fas-cination for painting.

Thorsten HinzArt historian and critic, Leipzig

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BRUNO GRIESELBILDER

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PIERROT MIT VÖGELCHEN 2008 | Ö/L | 160x110

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LOGOS2011 | Ö/L | 160x110

GLYPTOTHEK - EVOKATION2011 | Ö/L | 160x110

DAS REISURINAL2010 | Ö/L | 160x110

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LE SACREFICE DU PRINTEMPS2009 | Ö/L | 110x160

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PIERROT - DER AUSRITT2008 | Ö/L | 160x110

PIERROT UND DIONYSOS2008 | Ö/L | 160x110

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PIERROT - IM SPIEGEL DER SONNE2011 | Ö/L | 160x110

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PIERROT - MASKE UND PERSON2010 | Ö/L | 160x110

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PIERROT - DER QUINTENZIRKEL2011 | Ö/L | 160x110

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PIERROT - EINSTEINKREUZ2011 | Ö/L | 160x110

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GLYPTOTHEK - DIANA2011 | Ö/L | 140x100

CUT2009 | Ö/L | 160x110

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11. MÄRZ 20112011 | Ö/L | 180x200

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MÄDCHEN MIT WEISSEM VÖGELCHEN

2007 | Ö/L | 100x70

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GLYPTOTHEK - SILEN MIT BACCHUSKNABE

2011 | Ö/L | 160x110

DIE TRAUER DER DREI ORANGEN2011 | Ö/L | 160x110

IM GEBIRGE2009 | Ö/L | 100x70

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SCHRÖDINGERS KATZE2012 | Ö/L | 200x160

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VITA

1981 – 1986

Studium an der Hochschule für Grafik

und Buchkunst, Leipzig, Prof. Stelzmann,

W. Peuker und Prof. Heisig

1986 – 1989

Meisterschüler bei Prof. Heisig

Seit 1986

freischaffender Bildender Künstler

AUSTELLLUNGEN / MESSEN

2012: „hell//dunkel +5“, Kunstmühle Salzburg2012: Art Karlsruhe / Kunstmühle Salzburg2011: munich contempo / Kunstmühle Salzburg2010: „Bruno Griesel - 50“, Galerie am Sachsenplatz,

Leipzig 2009: „Selection Art Fair 2009“, Basel / Jörg Heitsch

Galerie2009: ART.FAIR, Köln / Jörg Heitsch Galerie2009: „Zeitgenössischer Barock“, Jörg Heitsch

Galerie, München2008: Art Karlsruhe / Galerie ARTHUS2008: „Aufbruch der Moderne“, Jörg Heitsch Galerie,

München2007: ART.FAIR Köln / Soloshow Alp Galleries2007: Art Karlsruhe / Galerie ARTHUS2007: Liste Köln / Galerie ARTHUS2007: „GRIESEL – Aufbruch der Moderne“, Alp

Galleries, Frankfurt2006: art miami / Alp Galleries2006: Art Karlsruhe / Galerie ARTHUS2006: Galerie „VNG“ Leipzig2004: „Arbeiten auf Papier“ Stadtbau AG, Leipzig2003: Shanghai SPRING ART SALON / Alp

Galleries2003: „Annunciation“, Alp Galleries, New York

2000: „Die Farbe Gelb“, Deutsche Post, Bonn2000: „The 90th“, Alp Galleries, New York1999: „Rencontres“, Jas de la Rimade, Frankreich1999: „Gemälde und Arbeiten auf Papier der

Neunziger II“, Bahnhof Oberkassel, Bonn1996: „Hommage à Marguerite Duras“,

Jas de la Rimade, Frankreich1996: „Solemnis“, Galerie Satyra, Kronberg1993: „Les chants de Maldoror“,

Galerie Peter Lang, Leipzig1990: Group Show „Das Wesen des Schönen“,

Shiseido Art Space Gallery, Tokyo, Japan1989: Group Show „225 Jahre

Kunstakademie“, Leipzig1986: Beteiligung an der Ausstellung

Duisburger Akzente1987: Beteiligung an der DDR-Kunst-

ausstellung in Dresden

ÖFFENTLICHE WERKE

Specks Hof Leipzig: Fries „Psychologie der Zeit“

Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig

Kunsthalle der Sparkasse Leipzig