(Stuttgart, Germany, 1975)
Matthias Bitzer's work is poetic and enigmatic, combining figurative painting with abstraction and ornamental geometries. His passion for literature, poetry, and science produce an optical network that connects gaps in our perception of time and space. His source of inspiration derives from a broad range of often forgotten historical figures, including Emily Dickinson.
Bitzer's unique artistic language is based on formal and conceptual themes that diverge between abstraction and figuration. He references artists from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries such as Lászlò Moholy Nagy or Oskar Schlemmer. Nevertheless, his work goes beyond what his predecessors explored.
Bitzer unfolds a new perspective on modernism by creating a visual cosmos that immerses the viewer in a world of figuration in geometric patterns, overlapped images, and abstraction. In that sense, Bitzer is concerned with identity as an existential stance and constantly unveils the fragility of what we take as “truth."
He currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Matthias Bitzer
Stop the machine, 2023
Ink, acrylic, graphite, pins, coin on canvas
180 x 160 x 3 cm
70 3/4 x 63 x 1 1/4 in
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Matthias Bitzer
Rhizom, 2014
Paper on board, epoxy, metal frame
213 x 170 cm
83 3/4 x 67 in
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Matthias Bitzer
Eddie Spaghetti, 2023
Ink, acrylic, pencil on canvas
200 x 200 x 5 cm
78 3/4 x 78 3/4 x 2 in
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Matthias Bitzer
particle deep field, 2021
Ink, pins, balls, acrylic, on canvas
206 x 206 x 6 cm
81 x 81 x 2 1/4 in
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Matthias Bitzer
fickle tickle, 2023
Acrylic, ink, paper, epoxy on board
163 x 143 x 7 cm
64 1/4 x 56 1/4 x 2 3/4 in
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Matthias Bitzer
Narciss, 2023
Acrylic, ink on canvas, mirror, wooden frame
103h x 82w x 5d cm
40 27/49h x 32 17/60w x 1 123/127d in
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Matthias Bitzer
The great entanglement, 2020
Ink, acrylic, pingpongs, graphite, coins on canvas
240h x 210w x 12d cm
94 20/41h x 82 21/31w x 4 92/127d in
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Matthias Bitzer
Untitled, 2017
Paper and epoxy on board
152.40h x 121.90w x 7.60d cm
60h x 47 126/127w x 2 126/127d in
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