Born in 1982. Lives and works in Berlin.
Fritz Bornstück paints still lifes: precarious arrangements of objects inside a room bathed in unreal light, or in a bare landscape. It's hard to equate such arrangements with what we know of still life: these compositions of magnified, gleaming, attractive artifacts. Here, we're in the presence of unattractive objects, bits and pieces, debris, detritus. These are the piles left on the sidewalk after a move, the traces of a makeshift camp in the wilderness, or what's left of a life in an abandoned house. Hidden references from art history are superimposed on motifs borrowed from reality. The painting thus creates its own reality, of which the often thick material is itself a component in its own right.
