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Press release NICOLE BOTTET | KARL KORAB | 27.04.2022 — 06.06.2022
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Exhibition opening
TUESDAY, April 26, 2022, 3 — 6 PM
NICOLE BOTTET
Nicole Bottet, born in Pontoise, France in 1942, graduated from the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1969. The central theme of her pictorial creations is the still life and the human body, which increasingly emerged as a motif in the 1970s and to which she is now increasingly devoting herself again.
In her works, Nicole Bottet captures the aesthetics of the everyday. Preferably she works with oil paints on paper and canvas as image carrier. The charcoal pencil and collage techniques are incorporated into the oil painting. The artist adds color accents to the subtle colorfulness of her paintings, which she enhances with gold and silver leaf.
Since her first exhibition in Paris in 1973, exhibitions have been held annually in European and Japanese galleries. Her works hang in the Albertina in Vienna, Le Musée Olympique and Musée Jenisch Vevey in Switzerland, the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, and the Kasama Nichido Museum in Japan, among others. Nicole Bottet lives and works in Paris.
The exhibition will feature revisions and recent works by the artist.
KARL KORAB
Karl Korab, born in 1937 in Falkenstein (Lower Austria), studied from 1957 to 1964 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Prof. Sergius Pauser. Since 1980 the artist lives and works in Sonndorf in the Waldviertel. In his paintings Korab concentrates on still life and landscape, but it is not about traditional landscape painting. Through his subtle abstraction, he opens the viewer’s eye to rediscover the houses of his childhood and makes new interpretations possible.
Over the decades, Karl Korab was and is a traveler who always returns home.
The exhibition will feature oil paintings, collages, gouaches and drawings from the artist’s work.
Exhibition duration: April 27 — June 6, 2022
Invitation and exhibition catalog NICOLE BOTTET | 27.04.2022 — 06.06.2022
Invitation KARL KORAB | 27.04.2022 — 06.06.2022
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Press release FRANZ GRABMAYR | KLASSISCHE MODERNE UND ZEITGENÖSSISCHE KUNST | 16.03.2022 – 23.04.2022
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Exhibition opening
TUESDAY, 15 March 2022, 3 – 6 p.m
FRANZ GRABMAYR
Franz Grabmayr, born in 1927 on the Pfaffenberg in Obervellach (Carinthia), trained as an apprentice. The exhibition “Young Carinthian Talents” in Klagenfurt, in which he participated in 1952, awakened in him the desire for professional training. In 1954 he began studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Prof. R. C. Andersen and Herbert Boeckl. In 1962 he gave up his teaching profession and from then on worked as a freelance artist.
Starting in 1964, he created large-format landscape paintings and, from the mid-1960s, the legendary sand pit paintings, and later the series of “Tanzblätter” (“Dance Sheets”).
In the 1980s, the Sand Pit artist worked on night and fire paintings. Impressive scenes with dancers around the campfire, which Grabmayr staged on his Lower Austrian farm, are captured on canvases.
In summer he works in the Uttissenbach in the Waldviertel and in winter in his studio in Vienna. In 2002, on the occasion of his 75th birthday, his life’s work up to that time was presented at the Österreichische Galerie im Oberen Belvedere in Vienna. The artist passed away in Vienna on May 8, 2015.
In the masses of color wildly applied to the picture supports, the elements of water, fire, sky and earth appear again and again. Franz Grabmayr found inspiration for his expressive, powerful works in nature.
The exhibition will feature oil paintings on canvas and works on paper and molino from various creative periods of the artist, including landscape paintings, sand pit paintings and dance sheets.
CLASSIC MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART
On the first floor of the gallery, works of art of classic modern and contemporary art, including works by Marc Chagall, Joan Miró, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka, Max Weiler, Wilhelm Thöny, Gunter Damisch, Josef Mikl and Markus Prachensky are shown.
Exhibition duration: March 16 – April 23, 2022
Invitation and exhibition catalogue FRANZ GRABMAYR | 16.03.2022 – 23.04.2022
Invitation KLASSISCHE MODERNE UND ZEITGENÖSSISCHE KUNST | 16.03.2022 – 23.04.2022
Press release WOLFGANG STIFTER | MARTIN STAUFNER | 09.02.2022 — 12.03.2022
WOLFGANG S T I F T E R
Works on paper and canvas
Exhibition opening
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2022, 3 — 6 P.M.
Exhibition duration: February 9 — March 12, 2022
Wolfgang Stifter, born in Ottensheim (Upper Austria) in 1946, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1964 to 1970 under Prof. Maximilian Melcher, who will celebrate his 100th birthday in 2022. I’d be celebrating my birthday.
“In this exhibition Wolfgang Stifter intertwines two series of works that have been successively developed for quite some time: “Die Dinge des Lebens (Le cose della vita)” started in Italy in 2019 and “Leaves from the Amber Room” already in 2017, whereby the use of hard oils on Japanese paper, which make the picture support partially translucent, represents the personal novelty in these works.
In the former series, “The Things of Life”, mixed media on paper and canvas, the individual elements that make up the composition of the picture remain more visible than before, more contoured and sometimes only loosely connected to one another. In the meantime, the series “Leaves from the Amber Room” is heading for a new climax: the leaves are getting larger and denser and — because of their implied origin — are underlaid with Cyrillic print in their transparent parts.
All the works bear titles that, in addition to the many zoomorphic elements, introduce a further associative level that makes the viewer linger longer in front of the picture.” (Wolfgang Stifter)
Wolfgang Stifter lives and works in Ottensheim.
On the 1st floor
MARTIN S T A U F N E R
New works
Exhibition opening
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2022, 3 — 6 P.M.
Exhibition duration: February 9 — March 12, 2022
Martin Staufner, born in Immenstadt/Allgäu (Germany) in 1964, completed an apprenticeship at the Fachschule für Gebrauchsgraphik from 1985 to 1989 and studied at the Hochschule für künstlerische und industrielle Gestaltung in Linz from 1990 to 1995. The exhibition will feature new works by the artist.
“His motivation for the paintings is borne less by a transfigured love of plants than by a respectful detachment from the motif and a fascination that is rooted in the wealth of forms of plants. As imaginative and incredible as nature shows itself to us, the world of painting and drawing is just as wonderful and fascinating. In each picture lies the desire to capture all this for itself and the viewer, but it always succeeds only in capturing a moment.” (Martin Staufner)
Martin Staufner has lived and worked in Linz since 1968.