Villa Aurora Grant Recipients | 2010

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Jörg Bürkle | Artist

Jörg Bürkle | © Privat
Jörg Bürkle | © Privat
1961
born in Germany
since 1988
free-lance artist
1980-1988
studied painting at Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich
1984-1995
studied philosophy and comparative linguistics

Jörg Bürkle's paintings and drawings interrogate the social and technical development of their genres through a refined sensitivity to materiality and historical context.  Mediaeval reflects differently on Modern than Modern on Mediaeval, the combination of which produces a profound sense of western culture through a highly personal lens.

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