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From: G.Büchner Category: Art Date: 02 December 2009 Time: 10:52 AM Review: The exhibition at Kunsthalle Nürnberg was more comprehensive than this show but the gallery is a good solid portal inviting a feverish view. Painting never really goes away but remains the catalyst for so much ire you could be mistaken or likely to misjudge the current volume of paintings presence. With Butzer you really only get the tip of the iceberg, he should publish an accesable graphic novel in full colour to accompany the works but his terrain is the composure of understatement, the work is quite the opposite in terms of it's vivacious aggression which really does remind us how much we miss those German Painters. The vexed question of patronage comes to mind here since showing work of this scale requires perspectives associated with magnates, corporate funding or private obsession none of which are prevalent right now, for the time being a burst of colour and antigeometrical composition conspire towards a formal anomolousness, glad to be rid of accretious convergences and stuff that pleases the doctrines of our bitter betters. Enjoyable and enlightening sometimes enthralling. Bring a mantra and a recipe for Lammingtons.