Normann Seibold

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They depict recurrent leitmotifs like “woman with flower” or explore the structure of paint itself in stunning abstract pieces with relief-like textures.

The works of Seibold are characterized by a spontaneous, expressive painting style. Initially, his motifs often depicted naked women; later the images became more flat and his pictorial world was complemented by monsters with giant heads. Around 1994, he switched from working with acrylics to the more pasty technique of oil on canvas, in formats of up to 200cm. In the following years, he produced more and more paintings which are reminiscent of Georg Baselitz and the works of die Neuen Wilden, among others. With his increasing consumption of alcohol, the style of working became more ecstatic and the motifs more complex. Working in series, he dealt with different topics like a fox that was run over by a car, or different bonfire scenes. Historio-cultural figures like Wagner, Nietzsche and Ludwig II are portrayed and several pieces with grotesque figures were produced. Masses of color become denser and started to dominated the work of Seibold. “The pictures are now often defined by a differentiated relief of color-matter, which is worked on by painting, filling, kneading, scratching.” Thomas Röske. After 2000 the works became more abstract and the materiality of the oil paint central, as figurative elements only rarely appeared.

In 1995 Norman Seibold received a stipend by the Prof. Carl Fischer-Stiftung. From 1990 he studied graphic design at Pforzheimer Fachhochschule für Gestaltung. One year later he changed to Fachhochschule für Kunsttherapie in Nürtingen. From 1993 Seibold studied art at Karlsruher Akademie in the class of Max Kaminski and finished in 1999. Towards the end of his studies, the artist started to develop a mental illness. After several stays in a clinic for psychiatry and psychotherapy, Seibold went to a psycho-social institution in Baden-Würtemberg in 2001 called Samariterstift Grafeneck. The foundation offered him studio and storage rooms. His whole body of today. 

The exhibition is Seibold’s first in Berlin, after several group and solo shows in Ulm, Reutlingen, Dortmund, Münster, Karlsruhe, Marbach, and Heidelberg. Normann Seibold is represented at art Karlsruhe by gallery P13, Heidelberg. His artistic creation is supported and looked after by SEINO STIFTUNG ZEIT FÜR MENSCHEN. This year the foundation will celebrate its 10-year jubilee.