Gabriel Bur: “Der Stillstand des Moments im scheinbaren Innehalten der Zeit”
        (the standstill of the moment in the pretended detaining of time)

I have been working creatively (as an artist) for my whole life and chose fine arts – painting, sculpting and constructive arts – as my profession in 1999. After a long time of self study I created and developed new combinations of perception and implementation as a result of the tuition and creative contact to Anna Adam.

In the new spread of painting and object arts using the different techniques I conceptually and experimentally toy with “SpieIwerk” (play works) showing surreal snap-shots and the topography of faces inspired by archaic Hermai. So masks set onto pillars come into being, which unsettle and let you pause.

Jana Ritter, free-lance artist and scholar of cultural studies writes about my paintings (translated): »Gabriel combines, leads his figures, playfully, lets us toy (with our perception).  Colors, Materials, Forms used by him produce a new composition, make another own dimension within the picture.  The traditional pictorial space achieves a depth, which is not explicable just from bizarre but familiar colors, materials (“teddy-bear”) or 'common' background composition ... The poised combination of different techniques, e. g. Airbrush with mixed media, pastels and others, show his fondness for experiments which “before (making)” forms the material, lets emerge, lets go along – perturbed-conceptional creation in the truest sense.«

I develop my art works from a very individually worked out plasticity of the special material, where the thematic aspect of the concept finds the colors and materials for the art work by itself. In the spontaneous phase during producing often ordinary objects and materials are incorporated into the art work, to create the concept and character of the pictorial work. The aim is to grant the observer much room for his own interpretation to help develop a certain identification with the art work.

"As an artist I am a mirror of society and reflect emotions, which I am confronted with throughout the day. In my works I express, what I miss in our interaction. Even if my work apparently – seen superficially – seem to be illustrations from a children's book, it is the incredible depth which touches."

"Appearances can be deceiving and in our times seem so important. It is important to me, that the observer starts again, to question the visual aspect."

Gabriel Bur, 2008