Annas Raum

Michael Horsky

BornNationalityBased In
1973N/AN/A
Biography

Michael Horsky’s paintings seem crystallized from some sort of chromatic primeval slime. Constellations of motifs that leave everything obvious behind them—art history/role models/the good idea—appear on the canvas, though not before countless other images have been shaken off, discarded. Horsky draws from deeply hidden inner networks of knowledge and feeling, as well as the inherent laws that govern them. The outer, representational pictorial structure is merely a surface to project upon, a plaything, or an indicator for the abstract processes at work behind it. Forms are liberated from the gravity of logic, not deformed; colors unfurl the wildly beguiling power of their essence; narratives shatter against the paradox of their individual parts, only to further incite intuition. Horsky's paintings are oddly captivating equivalents for a world—our world— that, despite its real, barely comprehensible madness, mysteriously manages to function and, against all reason, is capable of creating amazing beauty (Sonja Menches). ...

Selected Artworks
Im Innviertel
Michael Horsky
Im Innviertel, 2020
110 x 109cm
Landscape
Michael Horsky
Landscape, 2020
170 x 180cm
Annas Raum
Michael Horsky
Annas Raum, 2021
190 x 150cm
Untitled
Großer Wal
Michael Horsky
Großer Wal, 2020
70 x 130cm
Untitled
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