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Invi­ta­tion to the exhibition

HERMANN KREMSMAYER
COLOR EVENTS

Vernissage: Tues­day, Sep­tem­ber 6, 2022, 5 – 7 p.m.
6 p.m., artist talk with Anja Gleich

After com­plet­ing his stud­ies in paint­ing at the Acad­e­my of Fine Arts in Vien­na, Krems­may­er was main­ly con­cerned with the inter­ac­tion of inte­ri­or and exte­ri­or worlds in his ear­ly archi­tec­tur­al and inte­ri­or paint­ings. His con­fronta­tion with dig­i­tal image con­struc­tions in the 1990s led him to a mul­ti-lay­ered col­or­ful mode of rep­re­sen­ta­tion in which the abstract and the fig­u­ra­tive are inter­wo­ven. From mod­ernism he takes over the inde­pen­dence of col­or. Paint­ed illu­sion and the tan­gi­ble, expres­sive real­i­ty of col­or come togeth­er in an excit­ing dia­log. A con­stant bal­anc­ing between cal­cu­la­tion and emo­tion­al spon­tane­ity.
Her­mann Krems­may­er remains open in his ele­men­tal paint­ing, often leav­ing the col­ors sus­pend­ed between the abstract and the rep­re­sen­ta­tion­al. The ges­tur­al traces evoke fig­u­ra­tive and land­scape asso­ci­a­tions. One wit­ness­es the process of find­ing form. Where­by the painter­ly ges­tures do not com­mit them­selves to any clear shape.
Krems­may­er cul­ti­vates a sub­tle approach to art his­to­ry. It draws the gaze and long­ing into a dif­fuse­ly lit atmos­pher­ic dis­tance. Paints depth and light. The painter’s uni­verse is like a dis­tant echo of ours. A web of mem­o­ries, dreams and illu­sions.
On the first floor of the gallery we show the lat­est works of the artist born in 1954 in Salzburg.
Her­mann Krems­may­er lives and works in Vienna.

JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS

On the sec­ond floor of the gallery, Japan­ese wood­block prints from the 18th and 19th cen­turies by Hiroshige, Hoku­sai, Uta­maro, Eishi and Shun­shõ, among oth­ers, are on display.

Exhi­bi­tion dura­tion: 7. Sep­tem­ber – Octo­ber 15, 2022

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Invi­ta­tion to the fes­ti­val exhibition

EDUARD ANGELI

Sat­ur­day, July 23, 2022, 11 a.m.

Open­ing with artist talk, 11:30 a.m.

For over fifty years, Eduard Angeli has con­sis­tent­ly worked on one theme, the myth of the silent room. Melan­choly as a basic mood accom­pa­nies his col­or-inten­sive and light-filled pas­tels of the 1970s and 1980s as well as the dark and gloomy paint­ings that were cre­at­ed pri­mar­i­ly in Venice from the late 1990s onward. Over the years, Angeli exper­i­ment­ed with dif­fer­ent tech­niques. Ini­tial­ly, it is main­ly works on paper in resin, tem­pera, char­coal, graphite and water­col­or. In the fol­low­ing years, scenery-like images dom­i­nate the work. From 1974 Angeli worked on mon­u­men­tal com­po­si­tions. The theme of water became a pic­to­r­i­al sub­ject from the ear­ly 1980s, and from 1990 Eduard Angeli’s night pic­tures were cre­at­ed. Eduard Angeli is a grandiose painter of light and a mas­ter of silence. In his pic­tures one enjoys the moment of pause. Since 2001 Angeli has lived and worked alter­nate­ly in Vien­na and Venice.
The 2022 fes­ti­val exhi­bi­tion will fea­ture recent works by the artist.

On the sec­ond floor of the gallery works of con­tem­po­rary artists and works of clas­si­cal mod­ernism are shown.

Exhi­bi­tion dura­tion: July 23 — Sep­tem­ber 3, 2022

Open­ing hours dur­ing the fes­ti­val:
Mon-Fri 10am-1pm, Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 10am-1pm

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Exhi­bi­tion open­ings
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 2022, 3 — 7 P.M.

GOTTFRIED MAIRWÖGER

Got­tfried Mair­wöger, born in Trag­wein in Upper Aus­tria in 1951, stud­ied at the Acad­e­my of Fine Arts in Vien­na under Josef Mikl and Wolf­gang Hol­legha.
“Sev­er­al large and impor­tant sec­tions of Got­tfried Mairwöger’s oeu­vre mark, from an art his­tor­i­cal point of view, a con­nect­ing inter­me­di­ate posi­tion with­in Col­or Field Paint­ing, which emerged in the USA at the begin­ning of the 1960s, and Abstract Expres­sion­ism, which pre­ced­ed it.
A spe­cif­ic char­ac­ter­is­tic and at the same time a spe­cial qual­i­ty of Mairwöger’s paint­ing is the free, con­trolled use of col­or. Mairwöger’s com­po­si­tions are flat­ly empha­sized, freely swing­ing out. They explode the pic­ture for­mat, as it were, and make use of the bright invit­ing white of the can­vas, often while clear­ly mark­ing the edges of the pic­ture.
What is deci­sive for Mair­wöger, despite all the cal­cu­la­tions, is the flow of col­or, the link­ing of form and the deter­mi­na­tion of form that emerges organ­i­cal­ly from the con­tin­u­ous­ly devel­op­ing painter­ly events.
The gen­er­ous, spa­cious paint­ings of the artist, who died in 2003 and was also suc­cess­ful in the U.S., pos­sess light­ness and rhythm.” (Excerpts from text by Peter Baum)
The exhi­bi­tion will fea­ture oil paint­ings and works on paper from the artist’s oeuvre.

ALOIS RIEDL

Alois Riedl, born in 1935 in St. Marienkirchen near Schärd­ing, lives and works in Brun­nen­thal in Upper Aus­tria.
From the 1960s Alois Riedl was engaged in paint­ing. Sources of inspi­ra­tion are every­day objects, arm­chairs, tat­tered sofas and fau­teuils. Over the years, his inter­est in abstrac­tion increas­es and his forms become more closed, geo­met­ric and less object-ori­ent­ed.
The exhi­bi­tion will fea­ture oil paint­ings, works on wood and on paper from the artist’s oeuvre.

Exhi­bi­tion dura­tion: June 9 — July 16, 2022