Gabriele Dr Guenther

born in Tokyo, Japan

The works featured here are from my ongoing Anti-Portrait series, an alembicated retrospective view on the 20th century both on a personal and global level, the main theme being the fuliginous poetics of death.

- Autodidact, began painting in 2001 and full-time painter/poet since 2007
- studied/hold degrees in seemingly unrelated fields such as Pharmacology, English, German, French, Japanese, Creative Writing, Philosophy
- University of Toronto (Canada)
- The Banff Centre for the Arts (Alberta, Canada)
- Fondation Postuniversitaire de la Sorbonne (Paris)
- Japan Foundation (Cologne, Germany)
- sojourn at the Cit Internationale des Arts (Paris, France) in 2001
My work has appeared on numerous CD labels/books eg. Nuscope Records (TX, U.S.A.), Leo Records (London, U.K.), Red Toucan Records (Montral, Canada), Konnex (Berlin, Germany), The Cambridge Scholars Press
Current Atelier: Amsterdam, NL
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