André Butzer

For this divertingly profound or profoundly diverting volume, editor Alexander Linn has gathered an abundant selection of press releases, letters, interviews and conversations, prose, and poetry by painter André Butzer. Born in Stuttgart in 1973, he was co-founder of Academy Isotrop in Hamburg in the mid-nineties, and rose to become one of the internationally most influential as well as controversial painters after 2000. The texts span the years from 1999 to 2017 and have been, in most cases, long out of print or difficult to reach. Brought together for the first time, Butzer’s writings form a concise account of his artistic thinking. The book offers thus an intimate and personal insight into his painterly formation and practice, particularly its relation to 20th century mass culture, to the history of painting, to poetry, or to »the regular utopia, what else« – making it an invaluable source of reference for both the scholarly and the passionate reader.