Planned exhibitions
04.03.2023 — 19.04.2023
Planned exhibitions
04.03.2023 — 19.04.2023
PETER KRAWAGNA
Paper and canvas works
The gallery dedicates the Easter exhibition 2023 to the artist Peter Krawagna. Krawagna, born in Klagenfurt in 1937, studied at the art school in Linz from 1953. During this time he created his first landscape paintings. From 1957 to 1964 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. Study trips took him repeatedly to Italy, France, Africa, India, Greece and Turkey. Since 1962, Krawagna has taken part in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad. The artist is one of the most important representatives of nature abstraction, a painting movement that draws its inspiration from nature. In his works, Peter Krawagna reduces landscape motifs to the edge of abstraction, only to dissolve them into a few areas of color. Everyday objects, regardless of their real function, become the motif. On the border to abstraction, quickly set, delicate pictorial frameworks and sensual color compositions emerge on primed canvas. Krawagna lives and works in Krumpendorf am Wörthersee.
The exhibition will feature recent works on paper and canvas.
Exhibition opening: Saturday, March 4, 2023, 11 a.m. — 2 p.m.
ARNULF RAINER
Prints
Parallel to the exhibition, graphics by Arnulf Rainer are presented on the second floor. Rainer prefers drypoint, it allows him to clarify the various darkening phases of his reworking and allows him to continue working. Many already scratched plates the artist uses again and again until the possible complete darkening. Arnulf Rainer’s first etchings are black. From the sixties, color is added and becomes an important design element. By reworking his self-portraits on zinc clichés or heliogravure, Rainer succeeded in expanding the possibilities of drypoint etching even further in the 1970s.
Exhibition opening: Saturday, March 4, 2023, 11 a.m. — 2 p.m.