Biography
Joey Schmidt-Muller is an active member of the Swiss avantgarde scene.
Moving from Later Surrealism and the New Objectivity, Joey Schmidt-Muller joined the already established Vienna School of the Fantastic Realism and then underwent to a longer phase of experimentation with various painting technique until the first chalk drawings in an old master, multi-layered painting technique.
The confrontation with social criticism led to Joey's new style, “Traumatic Realism", as a development of the New Objectivity of 1933. Pain, torture, nightmares and fears scream at us in creatures dancing and fighting, diving and flying who are intended to arouse our level of consciousness and lead us from our condition of prisoners to self-liberation.
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