Hitting Every Head
Haunch of Venison, London
Until 7 November
German painter Jonas Burgert (b.1969) makes huge, fantastical paintings that evoke weird hybrid mythologies, apocalyptic dreamscapes, disturbing and horrific visions, whimsical or spooky childhood worlds. He has often been described as a latter-day Heironymous Bosch, however his very painterly approach is utterly contemporary, and somehow very German.
© Jonas Burgert
Hitting every Head, 2009, Oil on Linen, 380 x 500 cm
© Jonas Burgert
kopfschluss (head end), oil on canvas, 2008, 260 x 340 cm
© Jonas Burgert
laengst vertraut, 2008, Oil on canvas, 140 x 120 cm
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