Michael Biberstein

born 1948 in Solothurn, Switzerland
lives and works in Portugal and Switzerland

"[...] the landscapes are not only pictures of landscape, they are also landscapes of the field of possibilities of the medium of painting. [...] when the black monochrome is placed next to the painted landscape, it becomes a question of perspective, a perceptual perspective. On the one hand you have the illusory, fake depth - the painted landscape - and on the other hand you have the black surface, which doesn't want to fake anything , but appears to recede much more than the former [...]"

Michael Biberstein quoted from On the Apotheosis of the Human Spirit through the Seeing Of Landscape, interview with Jiri Svestka, Tríptico, cat. Europalia '91 Portugal, Brussels 1991.

Sample Work
 

		Michael Biberstein New Paintings   Galerie Tanit, March 16 - April 23, 2005 Join the Tour...
		untitled 1997 acrylic on canvas 200 x 250 cm < Click on Image for larger view