I took the diversions
from the figure to the figure,
from encoding
to unlocking
to unlocking.
Among 1000 possibilities
one is only the seeker,
between three possibilities one believes
to decide for oneself,
If you reduce them to two,
they remain unintentional
constant companions in the doing,
only what is done itself remains
in the possibility of uniqueness.
The thoughts have long been others.
B. Griesel
Since studying drawing and painting at the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts in the 1980s with teachers Volker Stelzmann, Wolfgang Peuker and Bernhard Heisig, Griesel has been exploring a naturalistic and figurative style of painting.
He discovered his love for Baroque painting and its associated genres (biblical history, devotional painting, portraiture), subjects and motifs. Deep sensations and melting colourfulness were the painterly values of this period that so fascinate Griesel. Another source of inspiration for the deepening of mytholo-gical themes are the eclectics or renaissance artists from Bologna and Venice of the early 17th century, as Winkelmann calls them.
But the incunabula of the avant-garde also stimulate him to painterly experiments: Music, rhythm, dynamics combine with freely invented, geometric or abstract forms and a cognitive colourfulness, opening up broad fields of association in which "everything can stand for everything"". With his painted black square in 1916/18, Kasimir Malevich founded the beginning of a new art movement, Suprematism. This radical reduction of painting to form and colour is still regarded today as a signpost for the renewal of art and society and an icon of modernism.
Griesel repeatedly cites the purpose of abstract painting as an icon and means of prayer, i.e. the silent dialogue between the viewer and the sacred representative, in his paintings. Griesel sets his symbols and contents against the backdrop of avant-garde art history, thus creating an exciting synthesis of abstract figuration and figurative abstraction.
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Bruno Griesel, born in Jena in 1960, studied at the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts between 1981 and 1986 under Volker Stelzmann, Wolfgang Peuker and Bernhard Heisig, whose master student he was until 1989. Griesel has been working as a freelance artist in Leipzig since 1986 and has had his studio there in Specks Hof since 1991, with a few interruptions until 2010. He lives and works in his country house near Zerbst/Anhalt.
Studies at the Academy of Visual Arts,
Leipzig, Prof. Stelzmann, W. Peuker and Prof. Heisig
Master student with Prof. Heisig
freelance visual artist
"RETROSPEKTIVE", special exhibition at Albrechtsburg Castle, Meissen
"500 Years of Reformation", exhibition as part of the Houston-Leipzig city twinning programme, Club International Leipzig
"ADAM3", Protestant Academy of Saxony-Anhalt in Wittenberg
"Object Trouvé", Zerbst Art Festival, Zerbst City Museum
"White Cube", White House, Markkleeberg
„Variationen“, Marstall Schloss zu Köthen
Bruno Griesel / Alp Galleries, Frankfurt/Main
„Komponenten“, Bach Museum der Stadt Köthen im Schloss zu Köthen
Permanent exhibition at the Leipziger Galerie, Leipzig and Zwenkau
Art Karlsruhe / Kunstmühle Salzburg
„hell//dunkel +5“, Kunstmühle Salzburg
Art Karlsruhe / Kunstmühle Salzburg
munich contempo / Kunstmühle Salzburg
„Bruno Griesel - 50“, Galerie am Sachsenplatz, Leipzig
„Selection Art Fair 2009“, Basel / Jörg Heitsch Galerie
ART.FAIR, Köln / Jörg Heitsch Galerie
„Zeitgenössischer Barock“, Jörg Heitsch Galerie, München
Art Karlsruhe / Galerie ARTHUS
„Aufbruch der Moderne“, Jörg Heitsch Galerie, München
ART.FAIR Köln / Soloshow Alp Galleries
Art Karlsruhe / Galerie ARTHUS
Liste Köln / Galerie ARTHUS
„GRIESEL – Aufbruch der Moderne“, Alp Galleries, Frankfurt/Main
art miami / Alp Galleries
Art Karlsruhe / Galerie ARTHUS
Galerie „VNG“ Leipzig
„Arbeiten auf Papier“ Stadtbau AG, Leipzig
Shanghai SPRING ART SALON / Alp Galleries
„Annunciation“, Alp Galleries, New York
„Die Farbe Gelb“, Deutsche Post, Bonn
„The 90th“, Alp Galleries, New York
„Rencontres“, Jas de la Rimade, Frankreich
„Gemälde und Arbeiten auf Papier der Neunziger II“, Bahnhof Oberkassel, Bonn
„Hommage à Marguerite Duras“, Jas de la Rimade, Frankreich
Solemnis“, Galerie Satyra, Kronberg
„Les chants de Maldoror“, Galerie Peter Lang, Leipzig
Ausstellung "Kunst im Herrenhof" Neustadt a.d. Weinstraße
Group Show „Das Wesen des Schönen“, Shiseido Art Space Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Group Show „225 Jahre Kunstakademie“, Leipzig
Beteiligung an der DDR-Kunstausstellung in Dresden
Beteiligung an der Ausstellung Duisburger Akzente