Thomas Kitzinger. 24.10.1955.
What drives a painter to create over 100 portraits in the same, reduced form?
Since 2008, the Freiburg-based painter Thomas Kitzinger (*1955) has been painting strikingly lifelike half-length portraits in the same format, always showing people from his immediate and wider surroundings in the same "experimental arrangement": In front of a neutral background, always wearing the same turquoise T-shirt, strictly frontal, without adornment, without attributes or special facial expressions, looking straight ahead directly at the viewer.
In Kitzinger's potentially infinite series of heads, two discourses intersect to form a stimulating challenge for every visitor to the exhibition: What constitutes a person's identity? What is painting today? What can it do and what does it show us?
Since 2008, the Freiburg-based painter Thomas Kitzinger (*1955) has been painting strikingly lifelike half-length portraits in the same format, always showing people from his immediate and wider surroundings in the same "experimental arrangement": In front of a neutral background, always wearing the same turquoise T-shirt, strictly frontal, without adornment, without attributes or special facial expressions, looking straight ahead directly at the viewer.
In Kitzinger's potentially infinite series of heads, two discourses intersect to form a stimulating challenge for every visitor to the exhibition: What constitutes a person's identity? What is painting today? What can it do and what does it show us?
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