Jonas Burgert: Hitting Every Head Exhibition Catalogue
Design Spin

For his first exhibition with Haunch of Venison, German painter Jonas Burgert (b.1969) has developed a new body of work that continues his interest in complex and mysterious narrative-style artworks. The exhibition features medium and large-scale painting, a large-scale drawing and one sculpture.

The grotesque, the mystical and the fantastic provide the subject-matter for Burgert’s art. Bold, sensuous and opulent, the atmosphere in his paintings is of a world of destruction and chaos. Working in luminous, seemingly fluorescent colours glowing amidst a backdrop of pale hues, the artist depicts an apocalyptic mood of an end time, visions of a netherworld, an unknown myth or a peculiar dream. The ritualistic, archaic actions that are taking place on the canvas seem to be chaotic and violent at first glance, but at the same time they have a strong sense of tranquillity and stillness about them.

I’ve missed or rather sidestepped too many Spin updates of late, so it was only a matter of time before I gave in ;-)

Now I did have a few more posts lined up today including a rather juicy, content-laden one, however, I’ve found myself with a lack of time to put them together, so I’m afraid you’ll have to wait until Monday! ;)