Anna McNay

Interview with Jonas Burgert at Blain | Southern

20/10/14

Jonas Burgert: Stück, Hirn, Blind

Blain | Southern, London Hanover Square

14 October – 22 November 2014

Down the road from London’s Royal Academy, where the
German painter Anselm Kiefer is currently wow-ing the public with his epic
paintings on a very grand scale, another, younger, German painter is on show.

Blain | Southern gallery shows Jonas Burgert. Born in
Berlin in 1969, he also works on a scale that shocks and surprises. 

But are works on this scale purely the province of
museums and the private collectors with foundations of their own? Just who
could house a painting like these with their overwhelming power and dominating
presence…

To watch this interview, please go to: http://www.state-media.com/state/index.php?q=videos/jonas%20burgert