Acrylic, oil on canvas
75 x 80 cm; 29 1/2 x 31 1/2 in
Unique
"Poetry is very important for me and in my art, it stands in contrast to common sense, logic, pragmatism and is closer to metaphysics, to emotional experiences, closer to irrationality. It is important for me to break through logic or to go beyond the limits of realism." - Maxim Brandt
"Maxim Brandt creates in his works an absurd, poetic reality that radiates an atmospheric mystery. He describes his visual worlds as poetic staging. He is moving between reality and fiction, between the present and reminiscence. Everyday motives are deconstructed and recombined again with each other. This creates new meanings and connections between the things that often seem incomprehensive or irrational. The result of this is usually absurd, ambiguous dream images which have a self-contained logic. For each new painting he examines his own image material for usable individual elements that he puts together to form a new homogeneous 3D-composition. The process of mounting is comparable to a "mise-en-scène" in the theater or to the rhyming of a poem. During the painting process he often changes colors and lighting conditions, adds new requisites or reduces the composition. This new arrangement of things means for him an absolute poetry. It expresses itself by incoherence, acausality and discontinuity.
