NORBERT BISKY
MIRROR SOCIETY

SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, GEORGIA, US
28 FEBRUARY – 1 AUGUST 2022

In MIRROR SOCIETY, Norbert Bisky presents a series of recent works uniquely collaged with canvas from previous paintings that were slashed and reapplied to mirrored surfaces. These composite arrangements deconstruct Bisky’s figures into fragments of torsos, limbs, and faces, violently intersecting with abstracted bursts of saturated colour and the mirrors’ fractal reflections. The viewer is confronted with half-hidden, half-revealed images of beautiful youths including their own gaze, trapped in a voyeuristic feedback loop. With these current works, Bisky comments on the narcissism of a society deeply engaged in the production and consumption of a dizzying onslaught of images in viral media, seemingly unaware of the violence and turmoil happening around them.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA — The Savannah College of Art and Design presents SCAD deFINE ART 2022, the 13th edition of the university’s annual program of conversations, curated experiences, and exhibitions at the SCAD Museum of Art, which brings together an international roster of vital voices in art and design to share thought-provoking work and ideas.
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FEATURED ARTIST

NORBERT BISKY
Norbert Bisky (b. 1970 in Leipzig, Germany) lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Andalusia, Spain. He studied at the Berlin and Madrid University of the Arts and is one of the most successful representatives of contemporary figurative painting. The artist translates personal experiences of terror, journeys to Brazil, and influences from the media world into color-intensive scenes of beauty, sexuality, violence, and destruction. In Germany, Norbert Bisky is one of the most renowned painters of his generation.

His works have been shown in many international solo and group exhibitions, amongst others in the G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig, Germ...
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