Marc Brandenburg, Brainstorm 4, 2001

Marc Brandenburg

Brainstorm 4, 2001

Graphite on paper

8¼ x 16¼ inches (21 x 41.3 cm.)

Marc Brandenburg, born in Berlin in 1965 as the son of a German mother and an African-American GI, moved at an early age with his family to the United States....

Marc Brandenburg, born in Berlin in 1965 as the son of a German mother and an African-American GI, moved at an early age with his family to the United States. When he returned in 1977 to then West-Berlin, he was exposed to the punk scene and worked as a doorman in a Berlin nightclub and collaborated with performers and fashion designers.

At the centre of Brandenburg’s artistic practice is drawing. Since the early 1990s, the artist has been developing his graphic œuvre, an almost endless series. The starting point for his drawings are source material of his own photographs of scenery surrounding him. With the help of a copier or computer, he inverts these photographs and transfers the resulting negative motives onto the drawings. The presentation of his Brainstorm series in black light adds an additional layer to the drawings emphasizing his own mixed race biographical background.

Inverted into the negative, Brandenburg’s drawings are reminiscent of a visual diary of thoughts, memories, and sensory impressions from the last thirty years.

Provenance

Paul Morris Gallery, New York, 2002
Private collection, New York

Exhibitions

New York, Paul Morris Gallery, Marc Brandenburg. Hirnsturm I, March 2002 - April 2002

The Drawing Room

Marc Brandenburg

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