Artist
Michael Buthe
Artist
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Buthe's pictorial roots lie in European Informel and American Minimal Art. From 1970 he immersed himself intensively in the everyday life and mythologies of North Africa. His aim was to absorb the foreign, wondrous myths and customs as an antidote to the rationalistic practical constraints of contemporary Western societies, which were increasingly perceived as repulsive. His works are characterised by the diversity of their materials and multiformity of their formal means, reflecting the obsessions of an extraordinary artistic personality. His visual language contains elements from different cultures. Not their juxtaposition, but rather their bridging is the central feature of his artistic intention. In 1999 he was exhibited for the first time at the Galerie Georg Nothelfer.
