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The Tim Burton of Berlin

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Cabaret Baby

When I met the New Zealand born artist Seymour two weeks ago at an opening at Strychnin Gallery he wasn’t exactly over the moon about my comparison with the American cult director and multi-talent Tim Burton. Of course as an artist you don’t really want to hear that your work looks like that of someone else, do you?

But when I first saw one of his sculptures a while ago I couldn’t help but be drawn into this magical dark morbid world that reminds me so much of movies like Nightmare before Christmas and Corpse Bride. Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear? is the title of it and it was the first piece of art that I instantly knew I would buy. At the current show at Strychnin he exhibits a couple of more pieces, amongst them a stunning chess set and a hand painted family portrain in an antique frame (which was sold quite quickly).

On his blog you can take a look into his studio and into the making process. After the jump you’ll see some of his sculptures and paintings, including the one that I own.

Why do birds suddenly appear?

Why do birds suddenly appear?

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Custom Chess Set

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Ernest and Ethal

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Believe Everything

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The Eternal Drop and Sherman Swinder’s Sideshow

Along to most of the above artworks Strychnin also has some limited edition art prints of some of his illustartions which are quite affordable, btw. More artwork on his website.

www.seymour.net.nz

Frank by Frank
on June 24th, 2009
in Art
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2 Responses to “The Tim Burton of Berlin”

  1. HARFEN-ENGEL Says:
    June 26th, 2009 at 10:09h

    hehe, ist ja klar, daß dir das gefällt, ich finde das auch -mhm- wie soll man das sagen,” süß” geht ja nicht so wirklich. ich mag es!

  2. Grischan Says:
    May 9th, 2010 at 18:11h

    Nette Kunstwerke,ich werde mich mal auf der Webseite umschauen.
    Vielen Dank für den Hinweis.

    Grischan