Victor Man Libros

Ripeness is black with Victor Man. His greys and modulated blacks are non-minimalist, anti-hard edge. They are alien to the uniform, pigmentary, black paintings of Motherwell, Kline, Newman, or Still, which originate in a conceptually sensorial take on color. Man?s work also differs from the overlytextured, narcissistic, and self-consciously hand-crafted blacks of Hartung or Soulages. The blue-green-black tones in Victor Man are ?gments rather than pigments. They are reminiscent of the medieval grisaille, that consummate technique for encapsulating a dazzling0Texts: Rachel Corbett, Enzo Cucchi, Erwin Kessler, Karl Holmqvist00Exhibition: Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany (11.09. - 31.10.2020).

Victor Man (*1974 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania) is one of the most interesting representatives of the contemporary art scene. While his oeuvre is charged with personal memories, magic meaning, and references to art history, the origins of his motifs do not play a role. Man, who lives in Berlin and Cluj, draws on various sources to create a surprisingly contemporary and yet visionary art. Its power derives from its defiance of logical interpretation. In a global culture in which everything is explained and made visible, this noncompliance opens up individual artistic freedom.With its annual Artist of the Year award, the Deutsche Bank honors promising international artists who, in individual ways, have already created an independent, outstanding oeuvre that also includes works on paper and photography. Exhibition schedule: Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle, Berlin, March-June, 2014