Stefan Bertalan, Apfel Bäume, 1999

1999

Current Collection

Berlin, Germany

Medium: Gouache, pencil and charcoal on paper
Dimensions: 34 × 52 cm
Status: Open to Offers
Collect24 Art ID: C24-157754

Bertalan was monitored by the Communist regime throughout the 1980s, and could no longer keep together utopian views and concrete, widespread misgivings. He lost control. Nature as a system and science as a duty were shattered ideals in those times of chaotic regression, authoritarianism, suspicion, betrayal and repression. Bertalan's rigorous networks were torn apart: their luminous, rational structure gradually melt away. His abstract grids turn shabby, ragged by doubts and fear. Plants, geological and cosmic structures reverse into distorted, menacing self-portraits, while the animals and bodies unveil their monstrous traits. The swirling rational universe altered into disarray.

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