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Press release GOTTFRIED MAIRWÖGER | CONTEMPORARY ART & CLASSIC MODERNISM | 18.03.2025 — 29.04.2025
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Exhibition opening: Saturday, March 8, 2025, 11 a.m. — 2 p.m.
GOTTFRIED MAIRWÖGER
(1951 — 2003)
Hartwig Knack
Art historian | cultural scientist will speak at the opening at 11.30 a.m.
Gottfried Mairwöger studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Josef Mikl and Wolfgang Hollegha in the 1970s. The urge to paint and color was a central need for Mairwöger from the beginning of his artistic career. Initially, his works were based on a very simplified subject, but over time they developed into pure abstraction. His compositions have a two-dimensional emphasis. He works in several layers. A special quality of Mairwöger’s painting is his handling and experimentation with color. The choice of color, its luminosity and the interaction with the other layers of paint are decisive. The exhibition features oil paintings on canvas and works on paper by the artist.
CONTEMPORARY ART & CLASSIC MODERN
On the first floor of the gallery, works of contemporary art and classical modernism by artists such as Eduard Angeli, Victor Bauer, Franz Grabmayr, Josef Mikl, Pablo Picasso, Emil Schumacher and many more are presented.
EXHIBITION DURATION: 8. March — April 29, 2025
Invitation GOTTFRIED MAIRWÖGER | 08.03.2025 — 29.04.2025
Invitation to TEMPORARY ART & CLASSIC MODERNISM | 08.03.2025 — 29.04.2025
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Press release MARIA MOSER | ANDREA SCHNELL | 18.01.2025 — 05.03.2025
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Exhibition opening: Saturday, January 18, 2025, 11 a.m. — 2 p.m.
MARIA MOSER
Works on paper and canvas
Dr. Martin Hochleitner will speak at the opening at 11.30 a.m.
Maria Moser, born in Frankenburg in Upper Austria in 1948, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Her energetic and expressive painting is linked to reality, to life. Her characteristic formal language oscillates between abstraction and ultimate references to representationalism. Influenced by her father’s forge, she captures the different aggregate states from the gaseous atmospheric to the liquid to the cooled solid, massive, often in one and the same painting. Using color, she creates lively depth and spatial dimension, which is permeated by vitality, thereby combining the process of forging with the development of painting. The exhibition shows current works by the artist.
A catalog will be published to accompany the exhibition.
ANDREA SCHNELL
works on paper
At the opening, Andrea Schnell will read from the text “Körperzeichnungen” by Andrea Fürst
Andrea Schnell, born in 1956 in Mödling in Lower Austria, studied at the Higher Graphic Art and Research Institute in Vienna. With her “body drawings”, the artist does not depict naturalistic physicalities, but rather transfers her own subjective sensations, moods and inner ideas onto paper and thus confronts the viewer. The drawings are created through a lightness of gesture, a “floating” when the ink is applied to the paper. Current works by the artist are shown in the exhibition.
EXHIBITION DURATION: 18. January 1, 2025 — March 5, 2025
Invitation MARIA MOSER | 18.01.2025 — 05.03.2025
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Invitation ANDREA SCHNELL | 18.01.2025 — 05.03.2025
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Press release MARKUS PRACHENSKY | SALZBURGER GROUP | 07.12.2024 — 15.01.2025
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Exhibition opening: Saturday, December 7, 2024, 11 a.m. — 2 p.m.
MARKUS PRACHENSKY (1932–2011)
Dr. Margit Zuckriegl will speak at the opening at 11.30 a.m.
Markus Prachensky’s series “La Battaglia di San Romano” is a homage to the triptych of the same name by the early Renaissance painter Paolo Uccello. The latter captured the Battle of San Romano (1432) on three panels in the 1440s. The individual parts of the triptych are now in the Louvre in Paris, the Uffizi in Florence and the National Gallery in London. The numerous spears, which structure the composition of the Renaissance painting in a geometric, almost grid-like manner, particularly fascinated Prachensky and became the main motif of this dynamic series. 60 years after his encounter with the first panel painting, Prachensky decided to artistically realize the cycle “Battaglia di San Romano — Omaggio a Paolo Uccello” in 2010. In addition to the works on paper and canvas from this series, works from the cycles “Etruria” (1980), “Maremma” (1985), “Luxor Swing” (1997), “Bali trumpet” (1998), “Hongkong Ramble” (2000), “California revisited” (2001), “California Miles” (2002), “Senatus Consultum” (2005) and “Farnesina Dixie” (2006) will be shown.
ARTISTS OF THE SALZBURG GROUP (1951–1969)
On the 1st floor of the gallery we are showing selected works by artists from the Salzburg group. The Salzburg Group, an association of Salzburg artists founded in 1951, saw itself as a representative of modern art, which until then had not been represented in Salzburg’s art scene. The exhibition includes works by Eduard Bäumer, Gustav Kurt Beck, Herbert Breiter, Trude Engelsberger, Rudolf Hradil, Wilhelm Kaufmann, Kay Krasnitzky, Agnes Muthspiel, Hermann Ober, Werner Otte, Max Peiffer Watenphul, Max Rieder, Karl Schindler, Slavi Soucek and Leonhard Stemeseder. The first exhibition of the Salzburg group took place in Salzburg in 1952 and then every two years. The group disbanded in 1969.
EXHIBITION DURATION: December 7, 2024 — January 15, 2025
Invitation MARKUS PRACHENSKY | 07.12.2024 — 15.01.2025
Invitation SALZBURGER GROUP | 07.12.2024 — 15.01.2025
Press release ALEXANDER STROHTE | SUSANNE POHL | 02.11.2024 — 04.12.2024
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Exhibition opening: Saturday, November 2, 2024, 11 a.m. — 2 p.m.
ALEXANDER STROHTE
Abstract seascapes — Current works
Thomas Plaichinger will speak at the opening at 11.30 a.m.
Alexander Strohte has been working with the element of water since 1985 and is fascinated by the sea. The artist regularly travels to Sylt, Travemünde, the Riviera in northern Italy, the Côte Fleurie in Normandy, Brittany or the Côte d’Azur and is inspired by the rough North Sea, the clear Adriatic, the gentle English Channel, the wild Atlantic, the friendly Mediterranean and the surrounding vegetation. The flowing rhythm in his works refers to a universal code, the omnipresent rhythm of ebb and flow, of new moon and full moon. In his paintings, the last layer of oil applied is of great importance to Alexander Strohte. It determines the quality of the work. The exhibition shows current works by the artist from 2024.
SUSANNE POHL
On the 1st floor of the gallery we are showing prints by Susanne Pohl. The artist finds the motifs for her etchings, usually in small editions, in her immediate surroundings as well as in distant countries she has traveled to. She etches grasses, trees, wind and water into the etching plate and masterfully transfers the motifs onto paper.
EXHIBITION DURATION: November 2 — December 4, 2024