Parallel to the 60th Venice Biennale, the German artist DIETMAR BRIXY presents his colourful oeuvre under the title “The Description of the World” in the magnificent Salone Sansoviniano of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana on Piazza San Marco.
With his solo exhibition ‘The Description of the World’, Mannheim-based artist Dietmar Brixy explores the theme of ‘foreignness’, moving between cultures and identities. Marco Polo – the 700th anniversary of whose death this year – also gave the exhibition its name.
The collection of antique globes and world maps as well as the Testament of Marco Polo in the splendid rooms of the Biblioteca Marciana provide an exciting platform for Brixy’s oil paintings from the ‘Happy’, ‘Reflect’ and ‘Journey’ series, as well as his tondi, the so-called ‘Bamboo Bubbles’, which take up the shape of the globes and are characterised with veritable explosions of colour and organic shapes inspired by nature.
Travelling and encounters with the diversity of foreign cultures have always been an inspiration for artists. Dietmar Brixy is also such a traveller, a seeker. Over the years, Brixy has developed a special approach to capturing his experiences and perceptions in his works. For this unique aesthetic formal language, which embodies movement, energy and change, the Mannheim-based artist experiments with different materials and techniques. His works, which have been recognised in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad, are often large-scale and can be experienced both as paintings and installations.