The Romanian-German artist Miron Schmückle is a singular position within contemporary art.
Growing up in Romania under Nicolae Ceaüescu 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 to Germany in 1988 and studied from 1991-96 at the
Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel in Renate Anger's class for experimental
painting and at the HFBK Hamburg in the class for performance with Marina Abramovic in 1994.
He moved into his first studio in Hamburg in 1997. Since 2008 he has lived and worked in
Berlin. He received his doctorate in 2016 with a study on Joris Hoefnagel's 16th century
cabinet miniatures..
