Vittorio Brodmann

Fitzpatrick Gallery is honored to present Glue, Vittorio Brodmann’s first solo exhibition with the gallery in Paris.

"In a press release written a few years ago, Vittorio Brodmann’s paintings were mentioned as possessing ‘a soothing and relaxed effect, yet despite their lightness, they are anything but innocent.’ Brodmann knows what makes a hero, and knows even more how to turn him into a comedian. As a goof, a prank. A joke, perhaps. Something built against mythology. Something that knows the extraordinary and whose value is repugnant, almost abject. That desires something else.

For a long time, Brodmann dedicated his practice to small works. Condensed gestures in intimate scenarios. It’s only recently that he started concentrating on bigger formats. The ones presented in ‘Glue’ unravel as stages. In the end, the subjects are the same, and as much detail is given to the larger formats as to the smaller ones. The colors are equally vivid in all of them; from a bright red to a creamy white, from a naive green to a sympathetic pink, a furtive yellow, a melancholy gray, a shy turquoise."

—Hugo Bausch Belbachir

Vittorio Brodmann (b. 1987, Ettingen, Switzerland) lives and works in Berlin. Recent solo exhibitions include Page (NYC); Kunstraum Schwaz (Austria); Galerie Gregor Staiger (Milan); Nuremberg Kunstverein (Nuremberg); Sant'Andrea de Scaphis (Rome); Kunsthaus Baselland (Basel); Freedman Fitzpatrick (Los Angeles); Galerie Gregor Staiger (Zurich); Kunsthalle Bern (Bern); Halle für Kunst (Lüneburg); Gavin Brown's Enterprise (New York); Truth & Consequences (Geneva); 21er Raum / 21er Haus (Vienna). Brodmann presented as part of group exhibitions at Kölnischer Kunstverein (Köln); Galerie Gregor Staiger (Zurich); Saint George Street (London); Fri Art Kunsthalle Fribourg (Switzerland); Frans Hals Museum (Haarlem); Kunsthalle Palazzo (Liestal); MAMCO (Geneva); Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst (Zurich); Swiss Institute (New York); Gavin Brown’s Enterprise (New York); Stuart Shave / Modern Art (London); The Approach (London); Badischer Kunstverein (Karlsruhe); Halle für Kunst (Lueneburg); Kunsthalle Bern (Bern), amongst others.