studio visits
Studio Visit with Jürgen Grewe.
I have been going through old folders while on the quiet side of France for the holidays. This one said “studio shots”, and was baring the date, June 2009. I was in Berlin at the time and had met with German painter Jürgen Grewe.
I was introduced to his work by an artist I have been working with for a while now, Bas Louter, who never fails to pass along inspirational bits.
Grewe collects a plethora of images, from fashion magazines, to advertisements, movie stills, and other visuals birthed by our surreal and non-hierarchical popular culture. His compositions are heavily inspired by the heroic style of classic movie poster art and the scenarios he combines become the spectacle of equally mundane and romantic, yet impossible characters evolving in bleak and impersonal corners of German suburbia.
The artist was recently showing his large format paintings on paper and canvas in Brussels, Belgium at Gallery Actionfields – which published a catalogue for the exhibition – and in Kaliningrad, Russia, at the Cultural Center of the city.
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I was introduced to his work by an artist I have been working with for a while now, Bas Louter, who never fails to pass along inspirational bits.
Grewe collects a plethora of images, from fashion magazines, to advertisements, movie stills, and other visuals birthed by our surreal and non-hierarchical popular culture. His compositions are heavily inspired by the heroic style of classic movie poster art and the scenarios he combines become the spectacle of equally mundane and romantic, yet impossible characters evolving in bleak and impersonal corners of German suburbia.
The artist was recently showing his large format paintings on paper and canvas in Brussels, Belgium at Gallery Actionfields – which published a catalogue for the exhibition – and in Kaliningrad, Russia, at the Cultural Center of the city.
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