Norbert Bisky Melancholia, 2025
Oil on canvas
170 x 130 cm
Melancolia, executed in oil on canvas, depicts a young, bare-chested male figure twisting dynamically. His raised hand is in an ambiguous gesture between defense and surrender. The figure is surrounded by fragmented imagery of torn lettering and disembodied hands, all rendered in an explosive palette of pinks, yellows, blues, and blacks. Bisky fuses precise figurative painting with fragments of street art and comics, creating tension between the carefully rendered body and the surrounding chaotic graphic elements.