Norbert Bisky Scion, 2025
Oil on canvas
150 x 120 cm
Norbert Bisky's Scion depicts two fragmentary figures of young men. Characteristics of Bisky’s oeuvre, the interpretation of his scenes are quite open: his figures are rendered in bright and seductive colors, surrounded by sweeping painterly sections and others that appear similar to torn posters with remnants of writing visible. Integrating motifs from torn film posters, this aspect of the painting recalls the French post-World War II artists known as "affichistes" who celebrated that aesthetic.
Often located in a precarious space—falling, suspended in mid-air, hanging upside down, or hovering near an edge—the figures' untetheredness is a formal expression of an uncertain existential state.