Andy
Denzler was born in 1965 in Zurich, where he currently lives. He attended
several different schools there, in London, and in California. Denzler’s
artwork has been displayed in both the United States and in Europe.
His oil
paintings play on the realm between fiction and reality. Most of his paintings
are moments of a figure in a blurred, distorted movement. They are like freeze
frames in a video when you pause a movie tape. He wanted to show figures in
mid-action with the use of lighting and blurred lines. Denzler uses a strong
contrast between the figures and their background. The figures create a
narrative by struggling to escape and move from this frozen moment. Denzler’s
artwork is considered both Photorealistic yet Abstract Expressionism. His work
is inspired by his background in painting and in photography.
The
paintings are quite eerie but I find them interesting because they remind me of
my childhood before DVDs came out and I had to watch movies on VHS tapes. I
love how he is able to distort the subject but the viewer is still able to
understand what we are looking at.
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