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You think you know them, these places, these compositions of old things, of rubbish, of idyllic vegetation. You don't discover them by strolling, rarely by walking. To get here, you have to roam around, follow an urban explorer's instinct, leave paths, look for hiding places. Children and young people are best at this, but so are homeless people or graffiti sprayers. And then they appear, the traces of the heavy objects, the technical legacies from past decades. Like a whispering bag from the 1920s, musical instruments, fire extinguishers, drawers full of stuff vendor's tray from the cinema or a Converse Chuck shoe. Ambitiously piled high, romantically dropped down or burning warmth in a fireplace. Together they act like fertilizer, through them weeds blossom paradisiacally. After a few moments of contemplation, it finally becomes clear that Fritz Bornstück's pictures do not show real places, they only seem that way at first glance. They are un-places, exposed in hidden places and relocated in a fictitious map of the world. Larissa Kikol

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Exhibited Works

Betonknacker, 2023
Lithograph, Ed.:30
51 x 38 cm | 20 1/8 x 15 in

Evergreen, 2023
Oil on canvas
200 x 150 cm | 78 3/4 x 59 in

Buschfunk, 2023
Oil on canvas
190 x 230 cm | 74 3/4 x 90 1/2 in

Deliverance from Malaise, 2022
Oil on canvas
80 x 80 cm | 31 1/2 x 31 1/2 in

Dem Biedermeier Punk (Single), 2023
Oil on canvas
120 x 100 cm | 47 1/4 x 39 3/8 in

Match, 2023
Oil on canvas
24 x 18 cm | 9 1/2 x 7 1/8 in

Melancholia Always Returns, 2023
Oil on canvas
60 x 50 cm | 23 5/8 x 19 5/8 in

Melancholia Returns (Rasperry Remix), 2023
Oil on canvas
40 x 30 cm | 15 3/4 x 11 3/4 in

Shrine (Zigarettenmädchen), 2023
Oil on canvas
190 x 140 cm | 74 3/4 x 55 1/8 in

Smoke Gets in Your Eye (Cinema-Loveseat Oriole), 2023
Oil on canvas
150 x 200 cm | 59 x 78 3/4 in

Tusk (Susaphone), 2023
Oil on canvas
120 x 100 cm | 47 1/4 x 39 3/8 in

Weit Weit Weg (Eisvogel), 2023
Oil on canvas
120 x 140 cm | 47 1/4 x 55 1/8 in

ABC Löscher - (Edition 5), 2023
Ceramic, glazed
65 x 25 x 20 cm | 25 5/8 x 9 7/8 x 7 7/8 in

Boombox (Blaues Band), 2023
Ceramic, glazed
40 x 50 x 30 cm | 15 3/4 x 19 5/8 x 11 3/4 in

Der Boss, 2023
Ceramic, glazed
23 x 20 x 18 cm | 9 x 7 7/8 x 7 1/8 in

LOG, 2023
Ceramic, glazed
25 x 20 x 18 cm | 9 7/8 x 7 7/8 x 7 1/8 in

Scholle 2 , 2023
Ceramic, glazed
5 x 10 x 10 cm | 2 x 3 7/8 x 3 7/8 in

Scholle 1, 2023
Ceramic, glazed
3 x 8 x 10 cm | 1 1/8 x 3 1/8 x 3 7/8 in

Target 1, 2023
Ceramic, glazed
12 x 8 x 10 cm | 4 3/4 x 3 1/8 x 3 7/8 in

Target 2, 2023
Ceramic, glazed
12 x 8 x 10 cm | 4 3/4 x 3 1/8 x 3 7/8 in

Target 3, 2023
Ceramic, glazed
12 x 8 x 10 cm | 4 3/4 x 3 1/8 x 3 7/8 in

Target 4, 2023
Ceramic, glazed
12 x 8 x 10 cm | 4 3/4 x 3 1/8 x 3 7/8 in

Tatiana, 2023
Ceramic, glazed
29 x 20 x 19 cm | 11 3/8 x 7 7/8 x 7 1/2 in

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Press Highlights

Tagesspiegel, Aug 2023

Berliner Zeitung, Aug 2023

MOZ, Aug 2022

About the artist

Fritz Bornstück

FRITZ BORNSTÜCK

Born 1982 in Weilburg an der Lahn, Germany
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Bornstück paints compositions from an anachronistic world of consumption, antique symbols of status and cultural pleasure, which he does not exhibit conceptually as ready-made, but translates into figurative painting. This makes one think of a "dirty" Leipzig School or of wild Impressionism. In keeping with the pictorial motif, a patina also seems to have settled over the painting. From the closest proximity, the painterly details, which dissolve abstractly, are of interest here. Paint is not applied thinly, but pastos. In some places it is pressed on and off again or scraped off and then painted over again. Gestures and roughness can also only be seen when looking directly into the eyes of the canvas. In small strokes, a more chaotic brushstroke is reflected, but without disturbing the figurative representation premise that makes up the picture as a whole.