Philip Grozinger : If

Philip Grözinger’s art derives from his investigations of future-oriented visions. With his individualistic painterly signature he invites the viewer to join him on a surreal journey through the pictorial traditions of the Pop culture of recent decades. This volume is a retrospective which provides a comprehensive overview of his outstanding oeuvre. If there were such a thing, Grözinger’s works could be classified as Virtual Surrealism. Figures in space suits, black manikins and other figures encounter one another in a fictional cosmos. Against a background of abstract worlds they tell stories which follow their own physical laws. In painterly manner, Grözinger combines lurid contrasts with delicate, pastel-like shades. His paint application is based on that of miniature painting and gives the cartoon-like creatures human features as it draws the viewer into the artist’s fantasy world.

Science fiction meets painting in the avant-garde and surreal work of Philip Grözinger.

With his signature painterly style, Philip Grözinger invites the viewer to join him on a surreal journey influenced by the popular culture of recent decades, with a special focus on the monsters and aliens of science fiction.
 
Grözinger’s work could be best described as Virtual Surrealism. Figures in space suits, mannequins, and ghostly apparitions encounter one another in a fictional cosmos. Set against abstract backgrounds, Grözinger’s works tell stories that follow their own physical laws, and cartoon-like creatures with human features draw the viewer into the artist’s fantasy world. Combining lurid contrasts with delicate, pastel-like shades, Grözinger’s technique is based on that of miniature painting. Complete with more than one hundred color illustrations, this volume is a retrospective that provides a comprehensive overview of Grözinger’s outstanding body of work.