André Butzer is a contemporary German artist known for his large-scale Neo-Expressionist works of colorful canvases covered with thickly-applied paint. Often characterized as “Science-Fiction-Expressionism,” Butzer’s oeuvre represents a highly articulate style, somewhere between abstraction and figuration. His early work displayed an influence of Albert Oehlen and Asger Jorn, while his aesthetic has evolved into flat, geometric forms in broad swathes of color in his acclaimed N-paintings series. Born in 1973 in Stuttgart, Butzer graduated from Hamburg’s Akademie Isotrop in 2000. The next year he formed the Institut für SDI-Traumforschung (Institute for SDI Dream Research) in Berlin with Björn Dahlem....