High Highs Are Better Than Paint Brushes

Artist from Munich / Germany dispenses with brushes and paints with high heels

The artist Michael Griesbeck was born in Munich in 1970, lives in Munich and Murnau, in the heart of the Blue Land.

While his school development and training took place in Munich, from the age of 3 he spent every weekend in Murnau. These two different “worlds”, lived for decades, inevitably shaped his view and his work.

“I am particularly attracted by experimental as well as complex material works, whereby it is curiosity that drives me and leads me to search for completely new ways and interpretations.

My mostly informal works often show the combination of natural processes with technical, deterministic color and design options.

I see my pictures as a kind of symbiosis and transformation in which I combine natural elements, as well as processes, the results of which are difficult to influence, with stylistic devices from hectic, linear city life in order to derive my own, recognizable signature at the same time. “

Michael Griesbeck has been developing his creative approaches in painting as an autodidact since 2005.

“Shoetime” is his interpretation of a missing quality of life, a transformation, lost emotions. “Shoetime” is therefore my expressive answer to the loss of LIFE quality caused by Corona.

“How much Corona has” socially dissed-anced “us from all the beautiful things in this world, isn’t it a shame?”

“Let us concentrate on what we are missing, let us concentrate on the beautiful, on aesthetics and maybe try to orientate ourselves to Helmut Newton instead.”

Shoetime is the approach of creating a counterweight, or better yet, a kind of valve. So it was time to turn to the color palette of fashion. According to this motto, the next cycle began, a further development from the colorful series “Under Construction”.

Why high heels, you ask?

Well, a “style” tool was needed, a kind of “catalyst”. Painting with high heels, a metaphor, provocative, sexy and deliberately not without controversy. Aware of the options, but also of the polarizing effect, I stage and use the sanctuary of women, like sacrilege. But even these shoes, and of course the women themselves, could neither show nor be seen during this time, thus passing through the same phase of lost lifetime.

And so it is precisely this “use” in a conscious, idiosyncratic way that turns the shoe into a work of art at the same time. He, the shoe, is not reduced, on the contrary, it is staged – it is respectfully elevated to an independent sculpture.

Aware of precisely this attention, options have long been philosophizing about how to present the elegant heel in a completely different way.

Find some “making-of videos” on Youtube:

Red Heel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpJQm_hBSsM

Miu Miu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCwrDvg5D94&t=3s

Hommage an Louboutin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6KjH7gsbMg

It´s CHOO-time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc3I6v4Yg_M

More info: michael-griesbeck.com