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HUBERTUS GIEBE
born 1950 in Dohna, Saxony
Both before and after the re-unification of Germany, lyric
poetry and political essays on Gottfried Benn, Carl Einstein,
Peter Weiss and Walter Benjamin - and on the film language of
Fellini and Takowsky - accorded Hubertus Giebe of Dresden
independence and immortality. It was there that he found his
inspiration for his own train of thought, complete with
contradictions, visible in a veritable flood of pictures:
dwarfs, skulls, showmen, women, mussels, angels and lonely
sailors. His aggressive gaze reveals weaknesses and dictates the
expressive language of forms. Giebe swears by painting which has
an intellectual force; he is not content with the surface of
objects alone. Painting stands for "Les grandes Aventures de
l'Ame", and Giebe - with his powerful, life-affirming pictures -
invites one to take part in an intellectual adventure. Anyone
who knows Hubertus Giebe the person, critical, reserved and
thoughtful, will particularly value the power behind his
pictures. They pose existential questions openly and honestly,
replying with a pictorial answer... for Giebe's painting has an
obligation to thought.