Udstillet: “The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Late Picasso & Contemporary Painters”, Galleri Faurschou, København, marts — april 2007. Proveniens: Privatsamling, Danmark. Erhvervet fra ovennævnte.

Værket er registreret i The Archive of André Butzer med henblik på et kommende ræsonneret katalog over kunstnerens værker.

”There is no choice with colour. It’s all about colour or it’s nothing. Nothing is not so good.” (Katrina Kufer interview with André Butzer, Buro 24/7, 2011)

André Butzer is one of Germany´s most relevant contemporary artists. His works are in high demand at the current market, and he continues to have frequent international coverage in numerous arts publications, worldwide exhibitions at prestigous institutions, and representation in several important private and public collections.

Much of Butzer’s work considers the radical notion that color and history are inextricably linked, seen in his earlier series of densely chromatic, expressionist works where pop-cultural and art-historical references run roughshod over another through vigorously applied impasto swathes of oil paint. In a wild fabulating language he finds his colorfull experiences and inspirations amongst old and modern masters such as Giotto, Tizian, Raphael, Munch and Matisse.

This type of paintings, of which the here offered is a characteristical example, is to be seen as part of his “Science-Fiction-Expressionism”, that utilize all manner of references from corporate logos to cartoon figures and at the same time compresses together symbols of 20th century cultural, political and technological thought into extremely dense works.