This German Artist Created a Colorful Ode to California’s Everyday Energy at the Newly Reopened Max Hetzler in Berlin—See Images Here

As galleries around the world begin to slowly reopen, we are
focusing on exhibitions at spaces that are now receiving
public visitors. Check out this show at a newly reopened gallery
below.

“André Butzer”
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

What the gallery says: “Since 2018, André Butzer
resides in California and continues his elementary explorations of
color, light, and pictorial scale. Yet, everything seems to be
‘seen anew’. His paintings virtually reinvent themselves. Some of
them are now even titled again, often in the form of basic words
such as ‘Pistachios’, ‘Barber Shop’, and ‘Lunch’. Everyday things,
places and activities from which the mosaic of an American
experience gradually forms itself.”

Why it’s worth a look: The Berlin- and
London-based gallery is reopening in style, debuting a joyful new
show of works in an equally impressive building
at Bleibtreustraße 15/16, marking the third space in the
German city. The stately art nouveau building was once the home of
German art dealer Alfred Flechtheim, who fled for London when
the Nazis took over.

Even looking in through the ornate windows of the new space, the
jubilant colors of Butzer’s work would delight even the most wary
of visitors. Inside the gallery space—where, rest assured, the
gallery is maintaining strict post-COVID guidelines—Butzer’s works
of expressive brushstrokes and cartoonish characters hold court,
barely contained within the confines of the canvas, in works like
the show centerpiece, the exuberant canvas known as English
Muffins.

What it looks like:

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