Henrik Yde Art - presents:
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CLAUDIO BANZER - ART OF MATTER
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Claudio Banzer's art plays with its observer's perception.
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His paintings create questions. What's the medium? Oil on canvas? Or steel? Perhaps the opposite of what you think. Figurative elements subtly emerge from texture: a woman, a landscape, architecture.
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Banzer's paintings so richly integrate color and texture you might call them organic. Zoom in on segments: moss, snake skin, rusted rock. Step back: rhythmic fields, gently dark or expressively exploding, copulating colors. Always raw, earthy, tactile, iconic. No Super Flat escapism here. No cocky craftsmanship sub'ing for concept and emotion.
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Where most contemporary fine artists pursue objectivity, ridding works of personality, Banzer's work fearlessly, yet subtly, connects and balances instinct and intellectual play, the mythic power of natural elements touching the human. His sculptures continue the fluidity of his paintings; spontaneous apparitions, particularly playful, unapologetically human, and graceful. Are they iron, steel, copper or wood? Cast or forged?
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I find Banzer's work refreshing and liberating precisely because it does not buy into the trend of mainstream contemporary art, urged as it is, by deep cultural longing for purity, the perpetual tabula rasa, the American Dream of constructing the end of history. Banzer, of course, is European, yet though Swiss, he does not need a tightly engineered canvas devoid of relationship and accompanying riddles. No Neo-Renaissance man could jump more vigorously into the arena of recoupling art with man, than Banzer here does.
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If you want to look at something for more than five seconds, Banzer's textural art appeals. It rewards your time and close ups. Of course, minimalist art lets you move faster to the next instant of a singular idea and so forth. The Post-Modern promise gets you nowhere so fast you don't know if anything happened at all. If disembodied PM intellectuality has you bored, you'll love the vitality of Banzer's paintings and sculptures.
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His work is personal, organic, physical, spiritual, spontaneous, raw, unfiltered and unmasked, courageously discarding the safe, formal, conceptual rigidity of mainstream contemporary art. A powerful return to personal expression, to story, heart and matter.
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PLEASE JOIN US Henrik Yde, Q1, 2008
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Henrik Yde Art
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Thursday - Saturday 12-5pm 1551 S. Commerce Street,
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Las Vegas NV
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And By Appointment 702 630 8388
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