Thomas Helbig

Born: 1967, Rosenheim

Based: Berlin

Represented by: Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin

Helbig makes drawings, paintings and sculptures. The sculptural works are made from cheap, disposable objects which he shatters and saws, transforming them into hybrids. The violent gestural application of paint onto their surfaces seems to extend into the two-dimensional works, from which grow a sort of powerful beauty. The works have a mythological sense about them, of the artist letting himself go and allowing the psychic energies that govern him to find their forms, their precise and authentic expression. Recent exhibitions include the solo show ‘Last World’ at Bortolami Dayan, New York and the group show ‘The Afternoon of a Faun’ at Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, both 2006. Helbig lives and works in Berlin and is represented by Guido W.Baudach, Berlin.