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Vernissage: Sat­ur­day, June 3, 2023, 11 a.m. — 2 p.m.

Hubert Nitsch will speak at the open­ing at 11:30 a.m.

ANNEROSIS RIEDL

Annerose Riedl’s char­ac­ter women are most­ly made of lime­wood. No per­fect­ly smooth sur­face, but a cer­tain raw­ness favored by the mate­ri­al­i­ty is per­ceiv­able. Char­ac­ter­is­tic of the paint­ed, female sculp­tures are their over­sized bare feet and unique facial expres­sions. In 1980, the self-taught artist began sculp­tur­al work. The cause and moti­va­tion of their activ­i­ty is the sub­ject of women. Her fig­ures are sen­su­al and live­ly, defy­ing any clichés of com­mon ideals of beau­ty or per­fec­tion. The ladies delib­er­ate­ly avoid any attri­bu­tion to a social class. Annerose Riedl’s works are not about depict­ing con­crete women, but about being a woman in gen­er­al and all that is con­nect­ed with it. The rela­tion­ship with one­self: body aware­ness, nudi­ty, self-aware­ness and rela­tion­ships with oth­er peo­ple and ani­mals.
The exhi­bi­tion will fea­ture wood sculp­tures and works on paper by the artist, who was born in Pas­sau in 1949.
Annerose Riedl lives and works in Brun­nen­thal near Schärding.

ROMAN SCHEIDL
Brush and ink

“Through brush draw­ing, Roman Schei­dl has achieved a way out of the stag­na­tion felt at the begin­ning of the 1980s. He has thus also been able to posi­tion him­self beyond the one-dimen­sion­al demands of con­tem­po­rary art crit­i­cism. His artis­tic prac­tice has long since ceased to be con­cerned with the ques­tion of whether it is still pos­si­ble to paint at all, whether there is still poten­tial in the clas­si­cal dis­ci­plines to ade­quate­ly cap­ture the cur­rent gen­er­al sit­u­a­tion, and what the after­life of the “New Paint­ing” of the 1980s looks like. All of this becomes sec­ondary in view of Scheidl’s mon­u­men­tal con­cep­tion, which deals with the cen­tral ques­tions of the visu­al. …
For Roman Schei­dl, art has long since become a way of life. In it he express­es him­self, in it he finds all the explana­to­ry mod­els of life, which can also nev­er be exhaust­ed. Today he varies the dif­fer­ent meth­ods and pro­ce­dures. In this simul­tane­ity of per­for­mance (life-draw­ing), draw­ing, paint­ing, ceram­ics, film, the­ater and poet­ry, this mul­ti­fac­eted work takes place. It can­not be pinned down and clear­ly assigned. Attract­ed by one, leav­ing the oth­er, set­ting out again and again for the next, the result is a dynam­ic that can be read in Taoist terms and that asks for the way rather than for­mu­lat­ing a spe­cif­ic goal.” (Gün­ther Holler-Schus­ter)
On the 1st floor of the gallery, works on paper by the artist, who was born in 1949 in Leopolds­dorf, Low­er Aus­tria, are on dis­play.
Roman Schei­dl lives and works in Vienna.

Exhi­bi­tion dura­tion: June 3 — July 15, 2023

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MARTIN PRASKA
Thank you, good, and yourself?

Vernissage: Sat­ur­day, May 22, 2023, 11 a.m. — 1 p.m.

The artist opens him­self, at 11.30 a.m.

How to paint? What to paint? Why paint at all? Mar­tin Pras­ka paints to cre­ate some­thing new unseen, which at the same time reminds of known, all too famil­iar. He likes to quote works of famous mas­ters to hold on to, to climb on the shoul­ders of giants and then to dare a lit­tle hop, prefer­ably with­out land­ing on his stom­ach. Art feeds on itself. Orig­i­nal­i­ty is desired but to a cer­tain extent only an illu­sion. Like every­thing. Like col­or itself, which is a pure inven­tion of our brain. All we can do are vari­a­tions of what is already there. Remixed, cov­er ver­sions, rein­ter­pre­ta­tions, to put it in the lan­guage of music pro­duc­tion. The actu­al goal is always a suc­cess­ful piece that has not been there before. He wants no ide­ol­o­gy, no social crit­i­cism, no lar­moy­ance about the state of the world in the pic­tures. Pras­ka wants a release from all this, in short, cathar­sis. There is no oth­er way to do this than through sen­su­al­i­ty. This is a tightrope walk between desire and con­tem­pla­tion. In this ambiva­lence lies the art. And thus it works against total­i­tar­i­an­ism and fanati­cism. Because it defies unam­bi­gu­i­ty. We don’t need art with a mes­sage. The art itself is the mes­sage. (Mar­tin Pras­ka)
Mar­tin Pras­ka, born in Wies­loch (D) in 1963, lives and works in Vien­na.
The exhi­bi­tion will fea­ture new works by the artist.

KLAUS FUSSMANN
Linocuts

Klaus Fuss­mann, painter and graph­ic artist, born in Vel­bert (D) in 1938, is one of the rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the new rep­re­sen­ta­tion­al­ism. His motifs and themes are nature and cre­ation. Fuss­mann impress­es with his unmis­tak­able style, in which he mas­ter­ful­ly han­dles form and col­or, blend­ing the bound­aries between abstrac­tion and fig­u­ra­tion. In par­tic­u­lar, the artist has redis­cov­ered for him­self the tech­nique of linocut. Clear, strong col­ors cre­ate rich col­or sur­faces that con­jure up vivid land­scapes and col­or-inten­sive plant worlds. His flower motifs blur into col­or struc­tures that, despite abstrac­tion, do not deny the typ­i­cal shape of the indi­vid­ual plants.
Klaus Fuss­mann lives and works in Gelt­ing on the Baltic Sea and in Berlin.
In the exhi­bi­tion will be shown col­or linocuts of the artist.

Exhi­bi­tion Dura­tion: April 22 — May 31, 2023

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PETER KRAWAGNA

Vernissage: Sat­ur­day, March 4, 2023, 11 a.m. — 1 p.m.

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.

ARNULF RAINER
Print­mak­ing

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 Dura­tion: March 4, 2023 to April 19, 2023

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