Norbert Wagenbrett - The Other Self
From 09/10/2010 to 11/06/2010
Norbert Wagenbrett prefers to call his paintings rather images than portraits, because they cross the margins of common portraiture and reflect more than visible features. For Wagenbrett the painting does not mean a reproduction of a person in another kind of material, it becomes another being - “the other self”, which merges during the process of creation with his emotions, fantasy, creativity and his specific technique and owns thus a part of him. The artist puts this “other self” in an own surrounding by not only focusing the face and the chest of a person, but also expanding the image space to the knees and sometimes even to the whole body. In this way he can also exhibit the environment of the shown persons, can put it in an ambiance and can allocate attributes to them, which are references of their uniqueness and particularity.Norbert Wagenbrett lives and works in Leipzig.