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| The APOCALYPTIC VISUAL PARABLES of Norbert H. Kox | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Each of my paintings is like a book, exposing the tricks of the Evil One, revealing hidden truths through metaphoric symbols, hidden passages and written text. The Bible is filled with symbolic language which carries over into these paintings in the form of visual symbols." (N. Kox, in Raw Vision ) "Too many people are willing to be led blindly. Each one of us has to take an active role in seeking our own salvation." (N. Kox, in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Who is Apocalyptic Visionary Artist Norbert Kox? Click on the RAW VISION link below and see. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Norbert H. Kox
"Contemporary religious painter Norbert Kox is one of America?s most important Visionary artists. His self-described 'apocalyptic visual parables' utilize powerful symbolic metaphors aiming to shake modern man from his spiritual malaise and clear away centuries worth of mistranslations of the Bible." (Richard Metzger, Disinformation: The Interviews, p. 116).
Norbert Kox, born 1945, has created artwork since childhood, and is now receiving international attention for his paintings, sculptures and photography. He has painted in oils since 1963 and acrylic with oil since 1975. He has developed his own techniques of translucent acrylic glazing to produce the same intensely glowing effects and illusionary dimensional space that he achieves with oils. His unique style and trademark glazing techniques which have earned him his reputation are now being imitated by other artists, but the Kox touch remains unmistakable. His artwork has been exhibited internationally (United States, The Bahamas, Australia, Germany, and England) and has appeared in the New York Outsider Art Fair every year since 1994. He has participated in more than 75 juried group exhibitions, since 1989, and has had more than a dozen solo shows in the same period. His 1999 solo exhibit To Hell and Back, at the Neville Museum, in Green Bay, Wisconsin, attracted national media attention with many television broadcasts (even usurping "Top Story" attention from the Green Bay Packers). It remained in the news for 3.5 months and was the topic of several radio talk shows. By 2003, his works were exhibited in six of the eight shows at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore (# 4 museum in America) since its opening in 1995:
Wind in My Hair May 1996 - May 1997The End is Near! Visions of Apocalypse, Millennium, and Utopia May 1997 - May 1998Love: Error and Eros May 16, 1998 - May 30, 1999We Are Not Alone - Angels and Other Aliens October 2, 1999 - September 3, 2000The Art of War and Peace October 6, 2001- September 1, 2002High on Life: Transcending Addiction October 3, 2002- August 31, 2003
"Norbert Kox lives today as a semi-hermit... But he is not alone since God (and God's stark message) is ever present in his meditative prayer, in the "bible codes" he finds in a computerized grid of Hebrew letters, and in his lushly visionary paintings and gothic constructions. Increasingly famous and infamous now for his prophetic images that challenge mainstream religious pieties, Kox is a benign, humble, and intelligent man. Clearly at peace with himself, he does not, however, shy away from confronting us with God's apocalyptic warnings and encrypted revelations. But there are always flashes of light and spirit within the darkness - signs of hope and renewal...powerfully communicating God's most secret messages through his intensely glowing paintings (he has developed his own techniques of translucent acrylic glazing) and biblically haunted found-object assemblages. Despite the fear that his work sometimes engenders, he has had increasing national success as an artist with a provocatively disturbing vision of the end-time. Most recently, he has been retreating from the bitter Wisconsin winters to the tropical sun of Bimini, and it seems that he has tempered some of the harsh cartoon evil portrayed in many of the early paintings. But no matter how much his recent work shows an ameliorating principle, Kox quietly and passionately persists in his attempt to unveil the mysteries of God's strange missives to humankind." - Professor Norman J. Girardot (Curator, The End Is A New Beginning: Four Outsider Artists, 2000-2001, Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS: Disinformation: The Interviews, by Richard Metzger, "The Apocrapha of Norbert H. Kox," p. 116-125 (8 color plates) 2002, Disinformation Company Ltd., New York. Apocalypse Culture II, by Adam Parfrey, "Jesus/Lucifer-Santa/Satan: The Apocalyptic Parables of Norbert H. Kox," pp. 370-377 (2 color plates pp. 245-246) 2000, Feral House, Los Angeles. The End Is Near: Visions of Apocalypse, Millennium, and Utopia, by Roger Manley, "Norbert Kox," pp. 22-25 (4 color plates) 1998, Dilettante Press, Los Angeles.
PERIODICALS: "The Apocrapha of Norbert Kox," by Richard Metzger, Flaunt, April, 2001, pp. 76-79 (4 color plates) Flaunt Magazine, Los Angeles. "The Gospel According to Kox," by Alice Joanou, World Art: The Magazine of Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 16, 1998, pp. 62-67 (6 color plates) World Art Magazines Unlimited Ltd., Sydney, Australia. "The Apocalyptic Visual Parables of Norbert H. Kox," by Erik Weisenburger, Raw Vision: International Journal of Intuitive and Visionary Art, No. 14, Spring, 1996, pp. 30-35 (6 color plates) Raw Vision, London, England.
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This artist hopes, with his highly symbolic artwork, to encourage and promote the questioning and investigation of the age-old traditions of organized religion, with the goal of exposing falsehoods and revealing facts, through Scriptural and histotical resources.
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