Jonas Burgert’s monster landscape confronts decay, decline and death

Inside Jonas Burgerts studio, in the Berlin suburb of Weissensee, an enormous painting is approaching completion. At a panoramic 22 metres wide, the work called Zeitlaich is a fantastical frieze of nightmarish visions, grotesque figures and apparently random objects, tumbling together in a surreal dreamscape, rendered in Burgerts characteristic palette of rich, dark tones clashing with violent graffiti-like outbursts of neon and fluorescence.
 
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