Miron Schmückle

• Fantastical reinterpretations of naturalist drawings
• Monograph accompanying the artist’s solo exhibition at Frankfurt’s Städel Museum
• In-depth interview with the artist

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The Romanian-German artist Miron Schmückle is a singular position within contemporary art. Growing up in Romania under Nicolae Ceau escu, he dreamed of other worlds that seemed forever inaccessible due to the Iron Curtain. From the beginning, Schmückle's uniquely coherent pictorial cosmos has been linked to the idea of primeval forests and jungles, oscillating between hyperrealism and undisguised escapism, precise observation of nature and exuberant imagination. His almost scientific approach belies the fact that his complex creations have not sprung from nature but from imagination. Schmückle's fascinating hybrid creatures intertwine notions of scent and poison, beauty and transience, anatomy and sexuality to create an oeuvre between truth and invention that is both timeless and ostensibly fallen out of time.This monograph comprises works from the past 15 years and gives insights into the artist's concepts and technique through an in-depth interview with art scholar and journalist Simon Elson.

MIRON SCHMÜCKLE (*1966 Sibiu, Romania) emigrated toGermany in 1988 and studied from 1991-96 at the MuthesiusUniversity of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel in Renate Anger's classfor experimental painting, and at the HFBK Hamburg in the classfor performance with Marina Abramovic in 1994. He moved intohis first studio in Hamburg in 1997. Since 2008, he has lived andworked in Berlin. He received his doctorate in 2016, with a studyon Joris Hoefnagel's 16th century cabinet miniatures..