In his third solo exhibition in Berlin, the Swiss artist shows another facet of his painterly oeuvre, surprisingly restrained in its color palette. His artistic depth surpasses the previous, also thematically stringent various series of Denzler a lot. He remains faithful to his significant distortion technique of the paint surface, however.
The title of the show Breakfast with Velázquez refers to a variation that Denzler painted of the famous Pope Portrait "Innocent X" by Diego Velázquez (1650). We are, if you will, witnessing a conversation between Denzler and the great Spanish Baroque master. Unlike Velázquez, who very few portraits of women are known by, Denzler accedes with ten portraits of women and places his paraphrase of the Pope's image in the middle.
Andy Denzler was born in 1965 in Zurich, where he still lives and works today. His works are represented in major collections around the world, as the Denver Art Museum, the White Cube Collection in London and at the White House in Washington DC, the collection Alison and Peter Klein in Eberdingen-Nussdorf and the Museum Würth in Schwäbisch Hall.