WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE PAINTER ?

‘Erik Swars was born 1988 in Eastern Germany. His parents are engineers, still unmarried. He grew up in Leipzig, till his parents decided to get back to his small hometown, where he had his first creative expressional contact with graffiti artists. But after a short while he recognized, that this monosyllabically expression is not enough for him. Erik Swars started his first painting. At first try he came into the class of Jochen Plogsties at the evening academy of the HGB Leipzig. Mr. Plogsties showed him the space of paintings and confronted him with his work. Today Erik Swars study painting at Kunsthochschule Halle (Saale) Burg Giebichenstein and is an exchange student at Tokyo Geidai University Of The Fine Arts. His topics ranging in the border area - phenomenon's, degeneration, decisions, fail, fortune, authority, power and criticism. The painting poses questions to the viewer - the doors are locked, the keys are hidden or given away, aesthetics of the ill-favoured, confronted with the cliché of kitsch. Erik Swars is a painter - his paintings are thoughts, not story's.’

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Exhibition:  28.12.2013 - 14.01.2013
                      8pm - 12pm
Vernissage:  28.12.2013 - 7pm

Gallery Jikka
1F Fukano Bldg.
3-6-14 Sotokanda Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo 101-0021