Selected Artwork by Thomas Helbig

Thomas Helbig's paintings approach abstractionmaterials, Helbig creates a biomorphic abstraction
with a quirky intimacy. Set in wonky hand-madeveering between charred and fossilised remain and
frames, his canvases exude a contemplativescience fiction species. Embedding smooth
authority, broaching high culture with folk craft.moulded forms in rough globular material, Jung
Reminiscent of the black forms of RobertFrau possesses a tactile physicality at odds with
Motherwell or Franz Kline, Maschine resurrectsitself: fragile and brutal, elevated and primitive.
modernist principles of artistic autonomy, creatingCoated in high gloss black paint, Helbig's sculpture
a unique platform in which Helbig engages with artis both sinister and humorous, suggesting
and history in a personal way. Expressionisticallyapocalyptic narratives that are glamorous and
rendered in chalky tones, Maschine manifests aabject.At first glance Thomas Helbig's sculptures
corrupted aesthetic; his clunky form enshrined in aappear to be futuristic ruins; bizarre and broken
muddy painterly field alludes to a defunct beauty,finds hinting at some remote gothic civilisation,
its unresolved composition encapsulating the poeticglorifying its defunct authority. In fact they are
failure of ideas.Thomas Helbig's abstractions strivemade from contemporary debris, objects and
to capture the essence of power. Within his rawknickknacks found in dustbins and flea markets.
canvases, Helbig alludes to the unwieldy forces ofHelbig's studio is a laboratory of invention where
nature, and the representational modes used tothe discarded ephemera of daily life is broken and
harness its vastness. Stylistically, Helbig recyclesreassembled with construction materials to create
art history, implicating visual language as reflectivetotems of fictional power. Through this process of
of ideology: from the political subtexts ofabstraction, Helbig poses formal solutions as
abstraction, to the religious spiritualism ofliterary escapism, drawing a timeless mythology
romanticism. In Seele, Helbig creates a field of highfrom the everyday. Taking both barbaric and
drama, his blacks and blues churning with thepoetic form, Vater exudes a romantic
unpredictable depth of night. Reminiscent ofsupremacy, creating an alien parallel to known
Turner's climactic impressionism, Helbig's Seelehistory.
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fascination. Using the textural contrasts ofSaatchi Gallery - London contemporary art gallery.