Matthias Bitzer
Matthias Bitzer was born in 1975 in Stuttgart, he lives and works in Berlin (D).
He graduated from Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe, Germany in 2004.
His artistic practice combines drawing, sculpture and painting creating experience spaces with strong references to history and intellectuals and a deep reflection on their identity, in which the viewer can immerse himself. The development of his work shows itself in the increasing complexity of the installations, maintaining their focus on the construction of memory and the reconstruction of reality. His research involves literary personalities, writers and their characters who have frequently slipped into outsider positions. Fascinated by the relation between the invisible and the real, Bitzer layers symbolic fragments and fractured forms on top of one another as citations. In a new inspection of classical modern art from today’s perspective, the artist combines portraits and geometric constructions in his drawings, paintings and sculptures. Through the analysis of this multiplicity of figures, Matthias Bitzer’s work investigates different looks on reality and through his more and more complex abstract patterns he gives the viewer a visual translation to this fragmentary dimension, to these different points of view, to possible gazes. Through paintings, sculptures and mural drawings, all strictly connected to each other, he thinks the exhibition space as an autonomous body, where you can “consider the works as a kind of symbolist translation or a decoding of reality that tries to make visible something that was invisible before” as the artist says.
His works are part of Public collections at LACMA, Los Angeles, USA, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, Geraer Sammlung, Gera, Germany, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain, and Rosenblum Collection & Friends, Paris, France.
Matthias Bitzer was born in 1975 in Stuttgart, he lives and works in Berlin (D).
He graduated from Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe, Germany in 2004.
His artistic practice combines drawing, sculpture and painting creating experience spaces with strong references to history and intellectuals and a deep reflection on their identity, in which the viewer can immerse himself. The development of his work shows itself in the increasing complexity of the installations, maintaining their focus on the construction of memory and the reconstruction of reality. His research involves literary personalities, writers and their characters who have frequently slipped into outsider positions. Fascinated by the relation between the invisible and the real, Bitzer layers symbolic fragments and fractured forms on top of one another as citations. In a new inspection of classical modern art from today’s perspective, the artist combines portraits and geometric constructions in his drawings, paintings and sculptures. Through the analysis of this multiplicity of figures, Matthias Bitzer’s work investigates different looks on reality and through his more and more complex abstract patterns he gives the viewer a visual translation to this fragmentary dimension, to these different points of view, to possible gazes. Through paintings, sculptures and mural drawings, all strictly connected to each other, he thinks the exhibition space as an autonomous body, where you can “consider the works as a kind of symbolist translation or a decoding of reality that tries to make visible something that was invisible before” as the artist says.
His works are part of Public collections at LACMA, Los Angeles, USA, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, Geraer Sammlung, Gera, Germany, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain, and Rosenblum Collection & Friends, Paris, France.
- Dilemma of relativity, 2018mixed media
286×150×150 cm - Dilemma of relativity, 2020, detailmixed media
286×150×150 cm - Nova Povera, 2020, view 1acrylic on canvas, mirror, wood
117,5×112×5 cm - Nova Povera, 2020, view 2acrylic on canvas, mirror, wood
117,5×112×5 cm - Nova Povera, 2020, detailacrylic on canvas, mirror, wood
117,5×112×5 cm - La promenade des atomes, 2020acrylic on canvas
243×210×5 cm - La promenade des atomes, 2020, detailacrylic on canvas
243×210×5 cm - Emily’s window (opens to both sides), 2020mixed media
42×238×34 cm - Emily’s window (opens to both sides), 2020, detailmixed media
42×238×34 cm - All that you call world is the shadow of that substance which you are, 2020Neon, pvc tubes with adhesive foil
150 cm - Papillon, 2019, view 2acrylic on canvas, mirror
135×115×5 cm - A little image-shrine for the roadside, 2019, view 1mixed media
150×100×34 cm - A little image-shrine for the roadside, 2019, view 2mixed media
150×100×34 cm - Untitled, 2018, view 1Metal, glass, wood, paint
120×168×50,5 cm - Untitled, 2018, view 2Metal, glass, wood, paint
120×168×50,5 cm - Untitled, 2018Metal, concrete, paint
195×65×60 cm - Bend: Spirit, 2016Metal, wood
250×112×90 cm - Bend: Spirit, 2016, detailMetal, wood
250×112×90 cm - Archive of doubt, 2015wood, paint, glass
20,5×180×15 cm - Immaculate cloud, 2016, view 1coloured pencil on paper
204×144×5 cm - Immaculate cloud, 2016, view 2coloured pencil on paper
204×144×5 cm - Nymph/Noir/Nothingness, 2013mixed media
200 cm diameter - The Dimensionist’s Wife, 2008acrylic on canvas
160×130 cm