Norbert Bisky

Norbert Bisky was born in Leipzig in 1970 and currently lives and works wherever his art takes him; at this moment, he is in Israel. A student of George Baselitz, he is one of the most interesting young German artists. His work links images from the socialist regime in which the artist spent his childhood to very contemporary visions often used in advertising marketing strategies. Blonde, muscular boys with blue eyes become trapped in his sunny-colored canvases filled with seemingly idyllic scenes, blending memories from fairy tale books with a strange sense of submission.

One of the works in the Iannaccone collection is dedicated to cannibalism: “It is more of a taboo than a reality. It is one of those cultural barriers that cannot be overcome. These barriers reflect our society. This is the only reason that drives me to work on this theme. By focusing my attention on the relationship between the characters in a painting, I often end up creating violent scenes like Leon Golub. It’s a way to get to the heart of the work. Painting is, above all, a story of surface, and it aims to describe what is hidden, much like addressing a wound, blood, or a light injury. In my most recent works, I am increasingly interested in those microstructures related to medical or forensic imagery—images that allow us to have a partial view of our organs as if they were infinite landscapes.”