The experience conveyed by Jonas Burgert’s work is as real as standing in front of a mirror. It reflects the deepest inner workings of our being, allowing us to glimpse another place, opening up – or rather, ripping open a whole new universe.
The German artist primarily works on large-scale paintings inhabited by objects, animals, people and whimsical entities that disintegrate and constantly mutate. Tiny people and gigantic creatures spill out of cracks, perish between petals or sink into dull sheets; scraps of clothing without bodies to wear them; eyes staring into the void. Burgert’s paintings elude straightforward interpretation, they explore a higher reality and invoke the end of the world through personalities with multiple inner lives. The subjects are painted such that they are perfectly recognisable – albeit on a symbolic level. There are people who carry the paint on their skin, women with elongated bodies, frayed clothes made from plant fibres and rags. A constant need to portray hope and failure, beauty and confusion, prevails. Through his paintings, the artist strives to create spaces dedicated to the spiritual representation of ourselves – so that the observer is transformed into a creature, a figure within this painted reality.
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