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Danny Gretscher's work is bold and enchanting, replete with its own vocabulary, a constellation of symbols, characters, and allegories.
Danny Gretscher is a German contemporary painter, based in Berlin. In his large-scaled canvases the unique combination of vivid colour, organic delicacy and semi-abstract symbolism creates an incredible story of lasting drama.
Gretscher's creative process is very intuitive. As the artists puts it: 'At times I am visited by impulses from the depth of the universe that occur to me as emotions. I give a colourful garment to these sensations. Sometimes drawing a few lines is enough to make them all of a sudden visible'.
As one pattern leads to another, the artist gets with the flow and sees where it leads him, operating in-between figuration and abstraction. Incorporating vibrant colours and a variety of mediums, such as acrylics, spray-paints, pencil and oil pastels, Gretscher creates a dream-like spaces with an ambiguous, ever-developing dialogues within them. From one angle tantalisingly mysterious conversations, from the next, completely identifiable to the human story. Even the literal titles keep reflecting new interpretation.
The artist devotes himself to a subject that is completely ethereal, immediate and intangible. Creating entirely original worlds his immersive mixed-media canvases that at the same time reveals an often subtle, sometimes strong refraction of our own. Unparalleled and humanist, his pieces bristle with unfathomable magic.
Born in Jena, East Germany, in 1977, Danny Gretscher emigrated to West Germany in 1989, where he graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Graphic Arts and Communication in Stuttgart in 1999. His works have been exhibited around the world, and he has a developed a following for his iconic imagery and use of colour. Some of Gretscher's recent solo shows include: 'The Present Is A Gift' and 'There's Enough Light' at C.O.A Gallery, as well as being represented by the ATM Gallery at the Berlin Art Week in 2022.
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