Bodo Korsig
Bodo Korsig (*1962 Zwickau/D) lives and works between Trier and New York. He studied sculpture and stone restoration and now works in different media such as woodcut, drawing, painting, object (relief) as well as photography and film.
The artist’s interest in the structures of human behavior and perception led him some time ago to an in-depth study of neuroscience and behavioral research. In his works, he often addresses extreme existential states such as fear, violence, or death, transforming them into poetic as well as provocative, enigmatic or catchphrase-like images.
Bodo Korsig’s abstract forms of powerful lines imprint themselves on us like relevant marks and are at the same time complex; seem strange and yet familiar. Inspired by everyday as well as specific motifs, for example from medicine, the motifs, however, hardly form unambiguous images. On closer inspection, round soft forms mutate into plant-like structures, from which an unpredictable energy of their own emanates. The ornamental-looking pictorial signs are reminiscent of schematic, scientific representations of cell structures, bacterial chains, or viral growths.
Ambivalent emotions and irritations of his own visual experience, irritate the artist and thus trigger the viewer with trust and mistrust, fascination and a sense of distress. Sometimes the pictures are provided with text fragments, with keyword-like aphorisms on existential themes such as forgetting and remembering, love and sexuality or life and mortality.
