The large-scale oil painting Winder depicts a solitary, introspective, almost archaic figure set against a vividly luminous yellow background. The figure, dressed in dark garments, is entwined with flowering climbing vines that envelop the body in an organic, almost symbolic manner. The work is illustrated on page 185 of the catalogue Jonas Burgert. Sinn Frist, published in 2020, and exemplifies Jonas Burgert’s distinctive, imaginative, and richly symbolic visual language. The painting is in very good condition and was acquired by its current owner from the Blain|Southern gallery.
About the Artist Jonas Burgert
The monumental paintings of Jonas Burgert (b. 1969 in Berlin) unfold scenes in which the grotesque, the dreamlike and the existential converge. Luminous colours laid over a dusky grey are populated by archaic figures, symbols and signs. His sometimes vast tableaux cannot be taken in at a single glance; they demand close and repeated looking. Burgert studied at the Universität der Künste in Berlin as a master student of Dieter Hacker and still works today in a sprawling studio in Berlin-Weißensee. Since his breakthrough in the mid-2000s he has counted among the most sought-after figurative painters of his generation internationally.
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