Fritz Bornstueck

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The objects used in Fritz Bornstück's still lifes gain new life as the artist reuses and recycles the debris of popular culture in a practice he describes as cultural recycling. Bornstück (b. 1982) is a collector, pulling materials from wide and varied sources – such as film noir, found footage, his immediate surrounding or even private trash – and puts the contents of his ongoing collection in formal discussions to produce dynamic aesthetic friction. The used materials communicate the artist's creative context in translation, appropriating their sources and reinterpreting them to produce an associative space for the viewer.
Traces remain as the landscapes and places, which are depicted are abandonned. Silence, Light, Reflections, stories and history are calling to be unravelled.

What is it about your studio space that inspires you?

Beauty in Dirt

What sounds, scents and sights do you encounter while in your studio?

Preferably Silence, but there is always something.

What is your favourite material to work with? How has your use of it evolved throughout your practice?

Paint

What themes do you pursue?

Still lifes, Romantic Landscapes, Brutalist Architecture, Trash, Astronomie, Tales from the Far Side, Everything and Nothing

What advice has had the biggest impact on your career?

An older and more experienced artist told me to forget about my personal life and stories.

If you could install your art absolutely anywhere, where would that be?

On the Dark Side of the Moon

If you could only have one piece of art in your life, what would it be?

Any Vermeer

If you weren´t an artist, what would you be doing?

Scavenging

What are your favourite places besides your studio?

My moped, riding through outskirts

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