MASTER SCULPTORS AROUND WOTRUBA

ALBRECHT — AVRAMIDIS — HRDLICKA — PILLHOFER — REITER — URTEIL

Exhi­bi­tion opening:
SATURDAY, JULY 17, 2021, 11 A.M.

Exhi­bi­tion dura­tion: 17 July — 4 Sep­tem­ber 2021

Fritz Wotru­ba is one of the most influ­en­tial Aus­tri­an sculp­tors of the 20thcen­tu­ry. In our fes­ti­val exhi­bi­tion we focus on the rep­re­sen­ta­tives and the devel­op­ment from the artists influ­enced by Wotru­ba to their unmis­tak­able style. While the ear­ly sculp­tures show the typ­i­cal squat cubist, angu­lar forms, the indi­vid­ual devel­op­ment of the sculp­tors can be seen in the lat­er works.

Among the many great names that Wotruba’s school pro­duced, sculp­tures and sculp­tures by Her­bert Albrecht, Joan­nis Avramidis, Alfred Hrdlic­ka, Josef Pill­hofer, Erwin Reit­er and Andreas Urteil will be shown along­side works by Fritz Wotru­ba. The sculp­tur­al work of each is com­ple­ment­ed by draw­ings and sketches.

On the 1st floor

CONTEMPORARY ART AND CLASSIC MODERN

Exhi­bi­tion opening:
SATURDAY, JULY 17, 2021, 11 A.M.

Exhi­bi­tion dura­tion: 17 July — 4 Sep­tem­ber 2021

On the 1st floor of the gallery are works of art of the clas­si­cal mod­ern and con­tem­po­rary art, among oth­ers by Marc Cha­gall, Lyonel Feininger, Wolf­gang Hol­legha, Ernst Lud­wig Kirch­n­er, Gus­tav Klimt, Oskar Kokosch­ka, Joan Miró, Markus Prachen­sky, Egon Schiele, Oth­mar Zechyr u. v. m. shown.

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HANNES M L E N E K

New works

Exhi­bi­tion open­ing:
TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 2021, 3 — 7 P.M.

Exhi­bi­tion dura­tion: 2 June — 10 July 2021

Hannes Mlenek is pri­mar­i­ly a drafts­man. The cen­tral theme of his cre­ations is the human body. The expres­sive, pow­er­ful expres­sion of his work, most­ly in over­sized pic­ture for­mats, draws shad­owy forms of the human body.
Cur­rent works, which are unusu­al­ly small-for­mat for the artist, are shown in the exhi­bi­tion. Hannes Mlenek was born in Wiener Neustadt in 1949 and attend­ed the Uni­ver­si­ty of Applied Arts in Vien­na as a guest stu­dent. The drafts­man and painter has been work­ing as a free­lance artist since 1976. Mlenek has con­sis­tent­ly devel­oped a work that can be locat­ed both in the area of the ges­tur­al-expres­sive as well as in the area of the fig­u­ra­tive.
Mlenek’s works, work cycles and instal­la­tions have recent­ly been shown in exhi­bi­tions at the Leopold Muse­um in Vien­na, the Grenz Kun­st Halle in Jen­ners­dorf and the Anger­lehn­er Muse­um in Thal­heim near Wels.
Mlenek lives and works in Vien­na. Since 2016 the artist has a fed­er­al sculptor’s stu­dio in Vienna’s Prater.

On the 1st floor 

RUDOLF H R A D I L (1925 — 2007)

Still life

Exhi­bi­tion open­ing:
TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 2021, 3 — 7 P.M.

Exhi­bi­tion dura­tion: 2 June — 10 July 2021

Still lifes are among Rudolf Hradil’s pre­ferred motifs. At Hradil there is sel­dom still life clear­ly exclud­ed from the envi­ron­ment. The sur­round­ings of the land­scape or the inte­ri­or flow into them from all sides. A pre­cise def­i­n­i­tion of the still life as a spe­cial genre of his work is not pos­si­ble. Rather, the artist puts togeth­er indi­vid­ual build­ing blocks to cre­ate some­thing still life-like.
Rudolf Hradil, born in Salzburg in 1925, stud­ied at the Acad­e­my of Fine Arts in Vien­na. Schol­ar­ships and work stays took him to France, Eng­land, the USA, Switzer­land and Italy, among oth­er places. His graph­ic and painter­ly oeu­vre is rep­re­sent­ed in numer­ous state and pub­lic col­lec­tions in Aus­tria and abroad, includ­ing: Alberti­na Graph­ic Col­lec­tion, Vien­na; Salzburg Muse­um; Muse­um der Mod­erne, Salzburg; Palaz­zo Strozzi, Flo­rence; Museo di Roma; Würth Col­lec­tion, Künzel­sau; Essl Col­lec­tion, Klosterneuburg. Stra­bag Art­col­lec­tion, Vien­na; Liau­nig Col­lec­tion, Neuhaus.
Rudolf Hradil, painter, print­mak­er, drafts­man and water­col­orist, lived and worked in Salzburg and Vien­na.
At the end of June 2021, the Müry Salz­mann pub­lish­ing house will release the pub­li­ca­tion
Rudolf Hradil. Still life
with a text by Niko­laus Schaffer

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EVA WAGNER

Mys­tery Garden

Exhi­bi­tion opening

TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 2021, 3 PM — 7 PM

Dura­tion of the exhi­bi­tion: April 21 — May 29, 2021

While Eva Wag­n­er used to use fleet­ing moments of every­day life in urban envi­ron­ments as a source of inspi­ra­tion for her mul­ti-lay­ered pic­ture com­po­si­tions, now veg­etable struc­tures have become the dom­i­nant theme of her painter­ly research.
Eva Wagner’s pic­tures have a long process of cre­ation. Lay­er by lay­er with glaze applied paint, she com­bines abstract and fig­u­ra­tive parts in her pic­tures and there­by evokes the impres­sion of infi­nite depth and a suc­tion effect. This super­im­po­si­tion of dif­fer­ent image lev­els cre­ates an aura of the fleet­ing, inde­ter­mi­nate, but also of the mys­te­ri­ous, ephemer­al. Real­i­ty is present, but nev­er real­ly tan­gi­ble and man­i­fest. The abstract col­or spaces that open up between the real­is­tic flo­ral quotes always leave enough room for your own asso­ci­a­tions and inter­pre­ta­tions of the recipient.

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SUVAT

Paper works

Exhi­bi­tion opening

TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 2021, 3 PM — 7 PM

Dura­tion of the exhi­bi­tion: April 21 — May 29, 2021

The artist, born in Bangkok in 1952, has been work­ing con­tin­u­ous­ly on work blocks in small for­mat for years. On the one hand, he com­pos­es col­ored sur­faces with pig­ments on the paper primed with beeswax. The sec­ond group of works com­pris­es reduced black and white pic­ture com­po­si­tions.
Suvat grad­u­at­ed from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Applied Arts in Vien­na. Since 1983 the artist has par­tic­i­pat­ed in numer­ous exhi­bi­tions and exhi­bi­tion par­tic­i­pa­tions in Aus­tria, Ger­many and Italy. Suvat lives and works in Vienna.

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