{"product_id":"66316-miron-schmueckle","title":"Miron Schmückle","description":"The Romanian-German artist Miron Schmückle is one of the singular protagonists of contemporary art. Growing up in Romania under Ceaușescu, he dreamt of other worlds as a child, which seemed unreachable due to the Iron Curtain. Schmückle's uniquely coherent cosmos of images was connected from the beginning with the idea of primeval forest and jungle, and oscillates between finely painted hyperrealism and unadulterated escapism, precise observation of nature and overflowing imagination. The almost scientific-botanical approach belies the fact that his complex creations do not stem from nature, but from fantasy. In Schmückle's fascinating hybrid creatures of flora and fauna, scent and poison, beauty and transience, anatomy and sexuality merge into a body of work that is both timeless and fallen out of time, situated between truth and invention. \u003cbr\u003eThe monograph covers the works of the last 15 years and provides insights into themes, concept, and technique in an interview between the artist and art historian and journalist Simon Elson.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArtist and cultural scientist MIRON SCHMÜCKLE (*1966 Sibiu, Romania) emigrated to Germany in 1988 and studied from 1991–96 at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts in Kiel in the class for Experimental Painting with Renate Anger, and in 1994 at the HFBK Hamburg in the class for Performance with Marina Abramović. In 1997, he moved into his first studio in Hamburg. Since 2008, he has lived and worked in Berlin. In 2016, he received his doctorate with a study on Joris Hoefnagel's 16th-century cabinet miniatures.","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49755249639688,"sku":"9783775756655","price":60.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775756655_ad8163f4-e4b0-4762-ad84-8b9635d22838.jpg?v=1745308841","url":"https:\/\/hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/66316-miron-schmueckle","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}