Andre Butzer & Josef Zekoff. - “In his seven monotypes, André Butzer (*1973) expands the already rich spectrum of his graphic œuvre with an impressive series of heads of his iconic figure of the »Man of Shame«, rendered entirely in blue. Even with only one color, the sheets vary greatly: at times the heads are given in color-saturated, strong lines, at times they seem almost ghostly as negatively drawn traces in delicate cloudy hazes. For all the head’s emblematic qualities, the spotted and wiped-off areas of color might even be reminiscent of the subtle monotypes of Edgar Degas. Inverted, declaratory messages like »You must resist! Yeah« can be deciphered, yet they are always integral parts of the painterly. Then again, it appears as if all »[W]IDERSTAND« (resistance) was broken and in dissolution. Eventually, the writing totally merges with the image. Whereby Butzer’s monotypes retain all the vibrancy and openness of his paintings as well as their force and vigor. The nine sheets by Josef Zekoff (*1977) are playful variations on the motif of an upright, naked male body, facing the viewer head-on. One is equally reminded of Cézanne’s bathers in the Mediterranean and Munch’s in the icy North Sea or of Picasso’s classicist boys. Zekoff uses the same intense blue, but adds a velvety flesh tone to it. Swiftly and confidently, he fills the formats with these bodies, which now and then resemble fragments of ancient statues. Their contours dissolve beneath overlapping and briskly applied patches of color. It is precisely where the two hues meet and interact, where Zekoff scratches off or overprints the layers of color that wonderfully differentiated passages full of painterly gestures come forth, in a way only monotypes can achieve.” @josef_zekoff @andrebutzerarchive #josefzekoff #andrebutzer #andrébutzer @copenhagen_contemporary_art #copenhagencontemporary #sundayscph @sundays_cph