'WonderWatch'/95x115cm/mixedMediaCarton   'IMPLOSION'/85x120cm/mixedMediaCarton

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Norbert Schmitts work often has a symbolic character emphasising the mystery of hidden worlds. Shifted materials impose a shifting reality with different levels of experience. His artistic style is expressed by multiple layers of colour creating dynamic, blazing surfaces which for the eye of the observer both drift into the picture as well as blaze out of it.

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'SaltAll'/100x160cm/mixedMediaCanvas    'PrettyBlind'/100x120cm/mixedMediaCanvas

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Norbert Schmitt beschreibt Reisen durch die Bewusstseinsebenen, die - zeitgleich existent - hinter den Dingen aufzufinden, nicht irgendwo, sondern im Hier und Jetzt, eine Ode an die Wandlung in der Zeit sind.

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'Trinity'/50x65cm/mixedMediaPaper/2004       'QuattroStagioni'/50x63cm/paper/2004

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Norbert Schmitt (Mainz, Germania, 1972) nella sua In Carne Actio (2008)focalizza l’attenzione sulla positività dell’azione di contro alla staticità. Soltanto un movimento costante, inteso come evoluzione, può innalzare l’uomo verso più alti lidi. Di qui l’intricato avvilupparsi di linee. Gli stessi colori, così diversi e carichi di sfumature, si fanno sinonimo delle differenti personalità che, pur condividendo lo stesso spazio, necessariamente sono l’una diversa dall’altra. È la moltitudine che diviene la rappresentazione stessa della vita.

D.ssa Adelinda Allegretti, Rome; Italy

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'InCarneActio'/60x80cm/OilonCanvas/2008            'BordellA'/mixedMediaCanvas/60x80cm/2008

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Norbert Schmitt, born in Germany 1972, creates in his paintings worlds, that seem to be lightening atmospheric openings of our inner everyday life. Ideas like myths, but a point of view, that is findable behind the skeletal meaninglessness of words. Colours and floating forms, which indicate individuals and gleeming breezy morphogenetic fields. Formed by half-transparent layers of colours, which seem to attract the observer formally, and contours, lines and structures which withdraw only to push forward at another place, in his paintings the artist creates microcosms closed in on themselves between abstraction and symbolic naturalism. The matter deals from Norbert Schmitt becomes living form; an agglomerated, that writhe looking for his evolutionary process, looking for his own vital essence. Light has a fundamental role into his works, it reveals the transcience and the renewal of the lifes phenomen, reflecting itself variably on the surface. As Norbert Schmitt is a writer, too, he started to write small parts of his texts in his paintings. The floating ideas become a matter of logical thinking in different dimensions. The texts can be read in different directions and the parts of the lyrical sentences are compatible and exchangeable. What keeps Mankind alive: Thinking and Perception of the truth. Afterwards: Acting! What he tries to bring to the experience of the people with this special form of art, that he has created to combine thougths and perception. He is going to work on new series of paintings about that issue.

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LebensGeister auferweckt-SchamLos-SinnhaftFreier Wille-WiderStändens Bar

'SchamLos I'                                          'SchamLos II'

/100x150cm/mixedMediaCanvas/2008                            /100x150cm/mixedMediaCanvas/2008

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