Born in 1976, Harald Hermann was strongly influenced by the 1990s. The group of artists known as the YBAs, or Young British Artists, which dominated the art culture of the decade, was his biggest reference. The most famous member of the YBAs is arguably Damien Hirst, and other members include Chris Ofili, Tracey Emin, Marc Quinn, Gavin Turk, Sarah Lucas and Sam Taylor-Johnson (born Sam Taylor-Wood). Their shock tactics and sensationalism marked Harald Hermann, as did their use of disposable materials, wild lifestyles and an attitude that was both rebellious and enterprising. Relational Aesthetics also became a key idea for Hermann, a term coined by curator Nicholas Bourriaud to describe the act of making art based on human relationships and its social context.
Harald Herman’s self-taught artist invited to a journey through utopian, landscape and shadowy pictorial words. He creates his own cosmos on canvases of varying formats. In part by imposing multiple planes of images with quotes and details, creating echoes of fleeting thoughts and long gone stories. The arrangement of motifs allows absurd spaces and bizarre situations to occur, forming a hybrid window to an unexpected periphery of thought. Hermann orchestrates spaces and architecture, nature and landscapes and thereby builds a stage for his paintings, inhabited by spectral figures and where everyday objects acquire a magical quality.
He has being represented by Crone Gallery , Anna Lüpertz Gallery, Bernhard knaus Gallery and over his career had participated on international Art fairs like Basel in Basel and Frieze in New York and London among others.
