Narrative Stilllifes.

Time capsules excavated ...

Gabriel Bur deals with forgetting and repression of childhood and childlike naivety. – “Everyone has time, and it is of importance to remember.”

The Narrative Stilllifes, created in the context of his creative contact with Anna Adam, are the conceptually experimental exploration of “Spielwerk” (playwork) in surreal snapshots. The play as basic approach results in a sensitive attention to detail in the pictorial composition. Thus, like time capsules, the still lifes are narratives of past moments, excavated to revive memories - pure and free of later impressions. The images tell of periods and moments of a phase of life in which it was a need to hold on to things and preserve them, to bury them in order to dig them up again at some later time and to remember old passions, maybe to revive them.

Causal theme of the images: Spielwerk of our past.

 

 

 

Oh, großer Teddy!

Oh, Big Teddy!

30x30cm
[52x52cm]
Pastels, acrylics on paper
2005

 

Teddybär

Teddy Bear

30x30cm
[52x52cm]
Pastels, acrylics on paper
2005

 

Schatullenschnuff und Arbeitsschuh

Casketsnuff And Workshoe

35x47cm
[52x72cm]
Pastels, acrylics, touch-up pencil on paper
2005

 

Da ist ein Wurm drin

There's a worm in it

30x30cm
[52x52cm]
Pastels, acrylics on paper
2005

 

Der Schnuffreiter besucht Wuschel

The Snuff Rider Visits Fuzzel

30x37cm
[52x72cm]
Pastels, acrylics on paper
2005

 

Mr. Tophat

32x27cm
[72x52cm]
Pastels, acrylics on paper
2005

 

Wichtel

Gnome

126x100cm
Marker pen, acrylic ink on paper
2005

 

Duckanic

approx. 49.5x53cm
[72x52cm]
Alkyd resin oils, pastels, acrylics, charcoal on paper
2006