Central Services (Princess Utopia), 2009
Tjorg Douglas Beer
Painted, collaged colour photocopies, oil and acrylic paints, markers, adhesive tape, aluminium foil, 50 x 40 x 5 cm
Ten framed originals, signed, dated (
1,350 Euro
Tjorg Douglas Beer (born 1973, lives in
Berlin) steadfastly refuses to attribute any conceptual statement or stringency
of form to his artistic techniques, but certain themes do occur again and again
in his work. The images he creates often explore global issues such as war,
politics and social structures. He produces different scenarios using elements
arising from everyday absurdities, such as our media-saturated world, and
explores these themes without giving them a moral tone. Beer used colour photocopies
of etchings and photogravures as the basis for his limited-edition works for
the Kunstverein. They depict the faces of figures in Central Services (2009), an installation that Beer developed for
the Böttcherstrasse Art Prize in the Weserburg Museum of Modern Art in Bremen.
Beer has collaged and painted over the pale, sickly looking faces of these
almost adult-looking child mannequins to the extent that they are only just
visible in the background. Fragments of headlines or slogans peek through the
pieces of cut cardboard that share the space with the figures.
Tjorg Douglas Beer studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste (HFBK) in Hamburg. Between 1999 and 2004 he, Tatjana Sarah Greiner and Sebastian Zarius ran the Taubenstraße 13 gallery in Hamburg’s St Pauli district. He is currently working on the Forgotten Bar Project in Berlin.
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