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Sibylle Burr
 
 
About the Artist

Discussion of art always involves discussion of changing ways of thinking. The study of space and time by physicists like Stephen Hawking, the latest insights of chaos theory and my own preoccupation with biology are partly the basis of my works.
Artists as well as natural scientists try to describe and reflect different phenomena of nature. Pictures offer the possibility to portray the experiments that unfold in one�s mind, which are under no obligation to be proven. They pick up new questions and offer thought models. In the course of creation the artist uses his reservoir of conscious and subconscious and so he enjoys more freedom than the natural scientist.

By combining these two ways of thinking, the artist in his works � the scientist in his experiments, a deeper and broader insight is gained freeing the artist and the natural scientist from their individual ivory towers and their routine work and thought patterns. This should encourage the artist and the natural scientist to go beyond traditional ways of thinking.

Looking at an old piece of furniture made me ask myself the question what was the common basis of the arrangement of springs in furniture and the arrangement of chromosomes in cells.
One day I was confronted with the bottom of a piece of furniture on the floor of my atelier. At that moment I was very tired and the spirals started to move in front of my eyes and adopted various configurations. They reminded me of chromosome structures as well as of the embryonic development from the fertilized egg into morula and blastula.
At the same time and already in the years before I had been studying the theses of the biochemist Rupert Sheldrake who investigates the problem of morphogenesis using his theory of morphogenetic fields. What is the basis of form in nature? How does a molecule or a leaf know which form it has to adopt in the end? I had the feeling that I had found a track which could lead to an explanation. In the course of the debate which followed, increasing uncertainties arose concerning a reliable definition of art. Since then I have constantly been searching for a comprehensive definition for art, but my search has been met with many unsatisfactory answers.In this respect I have taken both an artistic and sclentific approach to my pictures in trying to find an answer to this question.

from:FRACTAL ORDER AND ART Sibylle Burr 1995

 
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Vanitas

2005
MMreadymade/Still
100cm x 100cm

The work shown is part of my series of works ‚vanitas’. The term vanitas refers to a quotation in the bible by the preacher Salomo 1,2 as well as to medieval vanitas stillife paintings. As space and time expand information moves in a continuous stream of consciousness. Timepatterns evolve from a mystery box and are subject to a continuous ageing process. New patterns arise by coincidence of combination and acquire various qualities of matter. There is a repetitive repetition of images which are accompanied by an ongoing formation as well as loss of individuality. During that process patterns assimilate, inflate and amalgamate. In this way all intelligent systems move towards abstraction. My dream becomes your dream. This loss of individuality makes us suffer and gives us a feeling of alienation being tiny microcosms of a larger system, being ‚ a dream within a dream’.

Vanitas

2005
MMreadymade/Still
100cm x 100cm

verba Ecclesiastes filii David regis Hierusalem vanitas vanitatum dixit Ecclesiastes vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas quid habet amplius homo de universo labore suo quod laborat sub sole generatio praeterit et generatio advenit terra vero in aeternum stat oritur sol et occidit et ad locum suum revertitur inique renascens gyrat per meridiem et flectitur ad aquilonem lustrans universa circuitu pergit spiritus et in circulos suos regreditur omnia flumina intrant mare et mare non redundat ad locum unde exeunt flumina revertuntur ut iterum fluant cunctae res difficiles non potest eas homo explicare sermone non saturatur oculus visu nec auris impletur auditu quid est quod fuit ipsum quod futurum est quid est quod factum est ipsum quod fiendum est AT, Prediger Salomo 1-9

sometimes/somedreams/Vanitas

2005
MMreadymade/Still
100x100cm/Detail

plastikbox/plastikbecher/ visitenkarten/haargummis

Vanitas

2003
MMreadymade/Still
installation/detail

wwwichwilldeinenwillenwollenco

2003
MMreadymade/Still
100x200cm/detail

52

2002
installation/Still
1000cmx 2500cm

52

2002
MMreadymade/Still
installation/detail

looooo ooooks/MMMreadymade

1452-2006
mixed media
170 x 80

looooo  ooooks/MMMreadymade
London - October 2006 ‘strolling down from Kensal Green to Hampstead – cars, buses, motorbikes, people- I’m moving –which attraction –air in tremor- what is real- just illusion- enveloped in midday colors- not yet knowing – if anything’ The image refers to talks with the biologist Rupert Sheldrake and his theory of morphogenetic fields. In fall 2006 we happened to meet in London, pondering about ancient Sibyls and angels.The work is part of my series ‘everything from nothing’.
 
Education and biography
1971-78 studies of Biology and English
University of T�bingen/ Germany
Leeds University (GB)

1991-95 studies of Painting/Photography/Graphics /Free Art College Stuttgart / Academy of Art and Design
Heger/Schauls/M�ller de Freitas

encounters with Karin Andre, Rupert Sheldrake, Marcel Duchamp
and Prof. Rolf Loch, Uhingen
Professors of State Academy of Arts Stuttgart

1995 setting up of publishing house Fraktal Verlag
publication of �Fractal Order and Art�
meeting A.Langen and K.Loges

1998-2001 studying voice with Arturo Luna/ G�ppingen
Gabriele Grabinger/ G�ppingen

2003/ 2004 dance- and theater workshop Ludwigsburg/ Germany
working with K.Hoppe/
Shantiprem

2005 performance and installation with Prof. Christine Biehler, Hildesheim Prof. Mike Hentz, Stuttgart
Arahmaiani,Indonesien

2006
talks with R.Sheldrake


1995/2003 founding member/ head of Forum K�nstlerinnen
Germany

since 2003 member of VBKW/Germany

since 1993 numerous exhibitions/ solo- and group/e.g. Stuttgarter Buchwochen/ 28. Deutscher Evangelischer
Kirchentag Stuttgart/ Verborgenes Museum Berlin/
Hochbunker K�ln/ Grosse Kunstausstellung Haus der Kunst M�nchen / Foyer Galleries Cardiff/ Wales / �in your dreams�
International exhibition project Germany/Canada/Australia

 
Future shows
2007
Gustav Siegle Haus/Stuttgart/Germany
Kunstnacht Göppingen/Germany
Broadway Gallery NYC
Amerikahaus M�nchen/Germany
2008
Stadthaus Ulm
in your dreams Brisbane/
Kanada
 
Website:  www.sibylleburr.com
 
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