Norbert Bisky Confab, 2025

Norbert Bisky's painting of fragmentary figures of young men surrounded by painterly sections and a trompe-l'œil effect of looking at torn paper. Characteristics of Bisky’s oeuvre, the interpretation of his scenes are quite open: his figures are rendered in bright and seductive colors, surrounded by sweeping painterly sections and others that appear similar to torn posters with remnants of writing visible. Integrating motifs from torn film posters, this aspect of the painting recalls the French post-World War II artists known as "affichistes" who celebrated that aesthetic.