oohart艺术

By almost systematically replacing the human figure by animal characters following the concept of the upside down world, of carnival, or of children tales, Gregory Forstner paints an ambivalent range of emotions within humankind resulting in portraying society and human nature in both a playful and grotesque way. Conceptually, his work is considered to be in the continuity of a tradition from William Hogarth, George Grosz and Otto Dix to George Orwell and Art Spiegelman, to name a few. Just as the repetition of a random sentence said out loud, or the juxtaposition of cut-off words placed back together randomly in literature, loses its content and original intentions while opening up to new possibilities of narration, in Gregory Forstner’s most recent works the repetition of the motif enables the viewer to shift attention, at first focused on the grotesque and the image, to Painting itself. Painting as a pure abstraction, painting as a catalyzer of ideas and endless possibilities of the mind.