Polit-Prominenz bei Brixy
2013-03-16
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art KARLSRUHE 2013
2013-03-07 08:00 - 2013-03-10 17:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Messe Karlsruhe

International, aber bodenständig
2013-03-07
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Art meets insiders - Dietmar Brixy
2013-03-01
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Der Natur stets auf der Spur.Brixy in Zermatt
2013-02-11
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Brixy und Grötsch in Zermatt
2013-02-09
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Start up '13 in Switzerland
2013-02-01 - 2013-04-13 | KUNSTRÄUME ZERMATT
We welcome the new year with the exhibition “Discover – Dietmar Brixy” at “Kunsträume Zermatt” (Heinz Julen) in the Swiss Alps. Works from the new Discover series will be shown as well as a selection of earlier pieces and a large Bamboo Bubble installation. Lots to “discover” indeed!
Opening: Friday, 1 Februar 2013, 18.00.
Greeting: Michael Grötsch, Mannheims Mayor, Business, Work, Welfare and Culture.
Introduction: Dr. Melanie Klier, Munich.
Opening Hours: Daily 17.00 to 23.00, and by appointment.

Achtung Brixy - booklet
2013-01-01 - 2013-09-14
„Achtung Brixy. New Paintings published exclusively for the exhibition with the special guests: Galerie Tammen & Partner (Berlin) mit “Marion Eichmann” and “Lothar Seruset”, Altes Pumpwerk Neckarau, Mannheim.
04.10.-26.10.2013
Editor: Dietmar Brixy, 2013 Layout: Uschy Fischer Fotos: Christian Dammert, Peter Schlör Texts: Dr. Melanie Klier Translation: Lance Anderson Copyright: Artists, authors and photographers
32 pages

Jahres-Endausstellung Berlin '12
2012-12-15 08:00 - 2013-01-19 17:00 | Galerie Tammen & Partner, 10969, Deutschland

Discover - Brixy-Verlosung. Vier Gewinner beschenkt
2012-10-01 - 2012-12-01
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Discover - New Works
2012-09-28 08:00 - 2012-10-20 17:00 | Altes Pumpwerk Neckarau, Aufeldstrasse 19, Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, 68199, Deutschland

Der Maler lebt und arbeitet im Rhythmus seines Gartens
2012-09-28
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Think about Wagner
2012-09-23 08:00 - 2012-11-02 17:00 | Kunstverein Worms e. V.

Vernissage "Discover"
2012-09-23 | Altes Pumpwerk Neckarau, Aufeldstrasse 19, Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, 68199, Deutschland
(…) “Discover”, the new series of works by Dietmar Brixy, is all about exploring and discovering: understood as a creative, productive journey of discovery and thus both the process of artistic creation and a visually exciting journey of exploration for us as viewers. From 28 September to 20 October 2012, Brixy‘s Old Pumping Station in Mannheim-Neckarau was not only a spectacular showcase for the “Discover” series: flowing and gestural, overflowing with hints of vegetation and oscillating between abstraction and representation. The glorious garden surrounding this neo-Gothic industrial structure once again provided the creative impetus for Brixy‘s lyrical, impasto painting full of tension and new accents.
In the context of this trompe l‘oeuil of submerging and emerging, of gesturally meandering streams of color, dripping foliage and layering of color fields intentionally left empty, Dietmar Brixy integrated the show of recent works by the renowned German metal sculptor Herbert Mehler (born 1949), with the awareness that Mehler‘s almost organic, “cavex” sculptures made of Cor-Ten steel are the product of a “process of construction parallel to nature” (Kai Uwe Schierz). Like Brixy‘s painting, they also bear witness to precisely this discovery.
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Dietmar Brixy - von Berlin nach Zermatt
2012-09-01
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Neckarauer Künstler Dietmar Brixy stellte in Berlin aus
2012-09-01
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Discover - Parallel-NaturenBrixy & Mehler stellen im Pumpwerk aus
2012-09-01
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Garten Eden in Berlin
2012-08-10 - 2012-09-15 | Galerie Tammen & Partner, 10969, Deutschland
Einladung

Vernissage "Garden Eden in Berlin"
2012-08-10
(…) Rather, here is a vision of nature that approaches us in the form of a monstrous, primordial soup. A formidable, elemental force that has yet to assume any actual shape or organisation, depicted before nature has taken on form. It is as though we are witnessing Creation in its very early phases, in which biomass is still present as pure energy, seared by flashes of lightning. Whether these organic forms are rivers, branches, serpents, or powerful lightning bolts remains an open question, and indeed, they could be several of these at once, as if the energy hasn’t settled on its form. What we see in these works is simply organic energy in visual form. I hope however that the artist can forgive me for saying that these paintings were naturally not created by the hand of God, but by just one painter. And by saying ‘just one’, I don’t mean that in a diminutive sense, but rather as a compliment.
So what exactly are we looking at here? This isn’t God’s work, but rather an artist’s. We see an artist in the act of creation. And the pictures, of course, are of a painter’s paradise. What we see here is a process of formation – the process of shaping the painting itself. The actual motif Brixy has selected for his images is the revelation of this generative process. His work demonstrates varied techniques, and reveals the creation of these images in different phases. We can imagine Brixy applying paint with the brush, smearing it, building it up with the palette knife, spreading it with his hands in different stages of relief. Thus, it is not the finished image that is presented here, but rather the process of formation – the process of becoming.
Generally speaking, Brixy presents us with an overwhelming celebration of nature. One might think of Claude Monet’s final paintings in this regard. We are all familiar with Monet’s celebrated ‘Water Lilies’. The last images Monet painted are a grandiose celebration of nature that becomes perfectly abstract. Just like Monet, Brixy paints pure biomass and organic energy. (…)
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Paintings in Neckarau spa
2012-05-24 | Gartenhallenbad Mannheim-Neckarau
The city of Mannheim commissioned four paintings from the series “winter bamboo magic” (2011) for the meditation room of the newly designed Neckarau spa. Like many of his works the inspiration for these powerful and lyrical paintings came from the garden surrounding Brixy’s studio and home, the „old pumping station“.
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Sauna bereichert neues Hallenbad
2012-05-01
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Bad lockt mit neuen Attraktionen
2012-05-01
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Brixy im Neuen Gartenhallenbad
2012-05-01
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art KARLSRUHE 2012
2012-03-08 - 2012-03-11 | Messe Karlsruhe

Discover - booklet
2012-01-01 - 2012-09-08
„Dietmar Brixy – Discover. New Works” published exclusively for the exhibition with special guests: Tammen & Partner Gallery (Berlin) with “Herbert Mehler. Altes Pumpwerk Neckarau, Mannheim.
28.09.-20.10.2012
Editor: Dietmar Brixy, 2012 Layout: Uschy Fischer Fotos: Peter Schlör, Marcus Klier, Klaus Brand Texts: Dr. Melanie Klier Translation: Dr. Gretchen Wiesehahn
Copyright: Artists, authors and photographers
32 pages

Exhibition of members
2011-12-13 - 2012-01-08 | Badischer Kunstverein
Opening Hours:Tuesday to Friday, 11 am – 7 pm Saturday/Sunday/Holidays 11 am – 5 pm

art Fair 21 - 2011
2011-10-29 08:00 - 2011-11-01 17:00 | Staatenhaus am Rheinpark
Brixy: One-Artist-Show arthea Gallery, MannheimNordflügel A 11!
“The Mannheim artist Dietmar Brixy (*1961) is one of the most well known and successful artists in the Rhein-Neckar Metropolitan Region. In his sensual, almost forbiddenly beautiful paintings, Brixy moves between abstract action painting and fi gurative gestures. A graduate of the National Academy of Art, Karlsruhe, Brixy works not only with a brush, moreover with his bare hands directly on the canvas, sculpting thick oils into organic motifs. The results are dynamic, baroque, dancing yet contained color sensations that call to mind ginkgo, fi g, olive and lemon trees as well as bamboo and grapevines.”
Dr. Dietmar Schuth, Mannheimer Kunstverein
Invitation Art Fair 2011

Dietmar Brixy - New Works 2011
2011-10-26 08:00 - 2011-12-06 17:00 | Medical Center Ludwigshafen
The medical centre Ludwigshafen and Dietmar Brixy proudly present the exhibition “Dietmar Brixy – New works”.

Vernissage: Tuesday, 25 October 2011, 5.30 pm
Greeting: Dr. Joachim Stumpp, managing director medical centre
Introduction: Dr. Reinhard Spieler, director Wilhelm-Hack-Museum

Opening hours:
foyer: daily 9 am – 7 pm
urologic clinic: Monday – Friday 4 pm – 5 pm

Brixy's laboratory of paradise
2011-10-26
“(…) In his latest paintings in the Eden series Dietmar Brixy transports us to Paradise. The extremely wide formats create a cinematic panorama effect and allow the viewer’s eyes to wander about in this Garden of Eden. However, the landscape is not very gentle: an impenetrable jungle of colors challenges the senses. Rich color blurs seem to wobble through the picture like misty clouds changing color all the time. The iridescent color spectrum ranges from diverse greens to blues, pinks and violets. Bizarre rivers of color flash through the thick color fog like bolts of lightning as if they endeavored to send jerks of energy through this amorphous primeval paradise. Are we witnesses to the first steps of Genesis? A stage of existence before the real Garden of Eden was created, before the world took shape from the seething biomass to form flowering meadows, plants, trees and fruits and become form? Are we tumbled into a bio-kitchen in which molecules link seemingly without aim to create vague shapes at first until they finally turn into leaves, twigs or rivers? (…)”
Dr. Reinhard Spieler Director, Sprengel Museum Hannover
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A Paradise of Colors and Forms
2011-07-01
(…) The painter Dietmar Brixy (*1961) is one of the most successful artists in the metro region. After completing his studies at the State Academy of Visual Arts in Karlsruhe, he returned to his home town of Mannheim in 1991, where he has developed a very sensual style located between abstract and figurative art: A color spills freely across the painting surface, not only beautiful in itself but also in search of motifs usually reminiscent of plants and fruits. “Eden” is the evocative title of this exhibition, a small but representative selection of Brixy’s works, all of which ultimately refer directly or indirectly to the Bible story of the fall from Paradise.
But first a few words about the artist’s painting technique, which involves a lengthy process for each work: He starts with an initial coat of paint, an overall mixture of many colors. Once this coat has dried, the artist adds another, this time thickly layering the pigment with a palette knife or his bare hands, developing a gestural-abstract painting style whose movement and intensive contrasts alone make it a visual feast. But that is not all: Brixy scrapes off part of this impasto layer to give it structure that can often be interpreted as representational motifs. The paint suddenly grows into the branches of a tree, its bark, leaves or fruit. Sometimes Brixy presses whole leaves into the paint, inscribing them realistically into the painting, as in a frottage. (…)
Dr. Dietmar Schuth

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