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Badische Zeitung from October 16, 2012
Exhibition Carlo Büchner
Gallery Art at the Park 2012
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“Works for mental amusement”
The “Kunst am Park” gallery in Höchenschwand shows
illustrations and caricatures by Freiburg artist
Carlo Büchner.
HÖCHENSCHWAND. While balancing on a chair, the male
wields a saw:
That poster on the entrance door points the way to
the “Kunst am Park” gallery on the lower floor of
the St. Georg Specialist Clinic and is the
beginning of a journey through the landscape of
illustrations and caricatures. Those interested in
art who are already present at the vernissage of
the exhibition “Maximal Perspective” clear an alley
for the new arrivals to enter before they are
greeted by Wilhelm Buchbender.
In his fourth exhibition opening, the young artist
Carlo Büchner addresses the guests of the evening
and patients of the clinic in a slightly mocking
but winning manner. "I sincerely hope that my works
will provide mental amusement, a humorous support
for recovery and will not turn into the opposite
and thus fail in their purpose." On a tour past 40
motifs, the viewer immediately understands what
Büchner means.
Creatures with over-emphasized noses, sometimes
drawn with just a few lines, capture the eye.
Visitors discover special artistic creations,
funny, mocking details and symbolic views of, for
example, a donkey or rabbit.
While ink pen, pencil or special felt markers lie
in the 26-year-old's hand - floating loosely so as
not to press the drawing device onto the paper and
to avoid gradients and conspicuous shadows - the
Freiburg native leaves his graphics to topics such
as problem solutions, embarrassments and truths ,
air travel and Christmas.
Büchner's sharpened sense of the scene of everyday
monotony served him well when implementing his
collected ideas, first through simplified, rough
sketches with thin, fine lines, and then completing
them with typical features or with the
representation of a specific situation.
Büchner, a great admirer of Loriot, holds a mirror
up to indeterminate people, highlights mishaps and
ensures maximum clarity thanks to the connection of
the explanatory content among his exhibited
originals, all of which were created between 2008
and 2012. “Funny, interesting and also thoughtful,”
is how a visitor describes these frozen moments on
a white background during a conversation. It's
clear to her neighbor that she wants to buy a
limited edition, hand-signed, framed print straight
away. The graphic designer's captured sparkling
spirit and sharp charm continues to captivate
people in series such as "Necessity is the Mother
of Invention", "Above the Clouds", but also "The
Sailor".
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Südkurier from October 15, 2012
Exhibition Carlo Büchner
Gallery Art at the Park 2012
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Works provide insight
Carlo Büchner shows works from the areas of
cartoons, poetry and painting in the Kunst am Park
gallery in Höchenschwand
Under the motto “Maximum perspective,” the “Kunst
am Park” gallery is showing caricatures by Carlo
Büchner (26) from Sexau until January 23, 2013. The
laudatory speech at the vernissage on Friday
evening was given by the senior doctor at the St.
Georg Clinic,
Wilhelm Buchbender.
Caricatures do not always have to be weapons to
characterize difficult political conditions and
social conflicts. Sometimes it's enough if they use
a sharp pen to poke fun at little weaknesses and
question social values. This is the case with Carlo
Büchner, who is unmistakable with his
reduced style aims at the all too familiar.
Situations in which you have to give up control
over your actions for a moment, such as the
desperate Santa Claus from the series “My Little
Break with Christmas” who laments his lack of
success. Or situations from the “Above the Clouds”
series, which could also be titled “News from
Absurdistan”. Here Büchner addresses the increasing
technical feasibility and flexibility by having a
gentleman jump off via Madrid, who “thus only had
to pay as far as Madrid”.
Skillfully drawn, his nose-accentuated creatures,
whose expression is sparingly yet effectively used,
have an absolute presence on the stage of life.
Completely alone or in pairs and with just a few
accessories, his figures stand on a white
background that make you cry, and their posture and
facial expressions reflect more or less awkward
life situations. In counterpoint to the minimalism
in his drawings, the explanatory texts underneath
his works suddenly provide maximum insight.
Clinic owner and managing director Frank Porten is
very pleased that he can exhibit Carlo Büchner, a
very young cartoonist from the region. “Caricatures
have the wonderful quality of making us see things
in life with a laughing eye. With their sharp
humor, they transform seemingly rational reality
and our sometimes stubborn beer-seriousness into
pleasant nonsense.
“Carlo Büchner, born in Emmendingen in 1986,
studied graphic design at the Freiburg Academy of
Communication from 2007 to 2010. From drawing to
graphics and from graphics to humor, he founded
“Carlo Büchner Arts” in 2008. Since graduating in
2010 as a state-certified graphic designer, he has
devoted himself intensively to the areas of
caricature, drawing, portraits, painting,
illustrations and also poetry.
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Emmendinger Tor from February 15, 2012
Prologue Blue and White Cap Evening
Excerpt from the report
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At its premiere, Carlo Büchner (25) slipped into
the role of the long-time chronicler Uli von der
Horst and in his prologue covered prominent
doppelgängers of “Noch-OB” Stefan Schlatterer (SC
Freiburg manager Dirk Dufner), MdB Peter Weiß (Tom
Buhrow) , Christl Gräber (Joy Fleming) or Jo Saar
(Europapark boss Roland Mack). “I am surprised to
see that the hall could almost burst at the seams,”
he also demonstrated his rhetorical talent and
skillfully joked about Vice Chancellor Rösler, the
Pirate Party, and the federal and state presidents.