Philip Grözinger | The Unraveling

February 7– March 14, 2020

Marie Kirkegaard Gallery is pleased to present The Unraveling, the second solo exhibition by German artist, Philip Grözinger at the gallery.

In The Unraveling, Philip Grözinger devotes himself to the process of creation in his artistic production. The novel The Unwinding by the American journalist, novelist and play writer, George Packer has inspired him in his new series of works. The titled refers to a self-observation of how systematic and thematic research creates initiate thoughts, rough ideas and first hand sketches and drafts, and in the same time, how everyday experiences and medias influence them. It is both a controlled-cognitive and randomly influenced process as works turn out iteratively and the stream of thoughts is unravelled.

For The Unraveling, Philip Grözinger has deliberately chosen to work in medias that are particularly suitable for the insumpcity of his world of images: namely works on paper, small sculptures and woven textile blankets.

Philip Grözinger is born in 1972, and graduated from Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Braunschweig in 1998. In his pictorial universe, Grözinger is to be conceived as a post-romanticist, although he shows nature not as idyllic, but as a dystopian wasteland. His image world is populated by creatures from a partly ulcous, but also abysmal, shadowy realm, in which anxieties and other mental distortions lurk. Bright colors, psychedelic patterns, pastos-stalked oil paint are to be read as a conscious set of references to the history of painting.

The anchoring in the history of art is countered by a proliferate motifs from the contemporary pop culture. In the interplay between quasi-surrealistic insanity and mischievous casualness, Grözinger repeatedly refers to certain historical or topographical contexts.

Philip Grözinger’s ambivalent dystopian worlds, his cheerful and dark visions will experience the Unraveling on February 7, at our opening reception at 5-7 PM. The exhibition runs through to Saturday March 14, 2020.

Exhibition press:

Connie Boe Boss: Sørgmodig, sjov og skræmmende. In.: Kunstavisen, March 2020

Philip Grözinger “The Unraveling”, In.: idoart.dk