Tobias Crone

Obsessed by the macabre and the grotesque, Tobias Crone tries to find the perfect deformation.
In his drawings and etchings you see a world in which the medical science has deteriorated to a selfish practice with the only benefit for the scientist himself, creating a society of diseased doctors who use their patients in order to satisfy themselves in the most effective manner through perverted treatments.
There are no cures. In this world the difference between a teabag and a scrotum has been abolished, while the vacuum cleaner is considered to be an essential medical instrument.
In the new series, he visualizes the impressions which he collected during his stay in Buenos Aires. In these works, one can see persons who are brought together and who unite themselves through their own indifference, just to leave each other even more painfully emptied. The transition from apparent unity, that seems indestructable, to useless waiting for the inevitable separation is one of the main subjects.

2017:
• Prints of Mention, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative (USA)
• Open Portfolio, International Printmaking Festival "FIG Bilbao" (Spain)
• Tribuna Graphic 2017 exhibition (Romania)
• Guanlan International Print Biennial (China)

2016:
• International Biennial Print Exhibit ROC (Taiwan)
• International Print Biennial Lodz (Poland)
• National Salon of Visual Arts (Argentina)
• Galerie Forma Aktua, Groningen (The Netherlands)

2015:
• National Salon of Visual Arts (Argentina)
• Celebrating Print Exhibition, New York City (USA)
• Triennial of Graphic Art „Bentara Budaya Jakarta“ (Indonesia)
• International Print Biennial Varna (Bulgaria)
• New Prints/Summer-Ausstellung am International Print Center New York (USA)
• Okanagan Print Triennial (Canada)
• Guanlan International Print Biennial (China)
• FIG Bilbao (Spain)

2014:
• 7th Heise Art Award exhibition, Germany
• 37th Art Award exhibition of the Cultural Foundation "Sparkasse Karlsruhe"
• International Printmaking Biennial of Douro, Portugal