NEW YORK, NY.- André Butzer’s second New York
show
at Metro Pictures “Nicht fürchten! Don´t be scared!” features a group of
new,
closely related works that focus on the “formal event” of painting. By
emphasizing shapes and fields of color, these works possess a less
linear take
on the usual motifs in his work—colorful hybrids of abstraction and
cartoon
figuration featuring a family of characters inspired by art history,
comics,
politics and animation. Both sinister and amusing, these
elegant
compositions balance large, vaguely recognizable biomorphic forms within
chaotic, multicolored backgrounds or heavily textured monochromatic
fields. On
view through 1 May.