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Press release ANNEROSE RIEDL | ROMAN SCHEIDL | 03.06.2023 — 15.07.2023
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Invitation to the exhibition
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
Invitation ANNEROSE RIEDL | 03.06.2023 — 15.07.2023
Invitation ROMAN SCHEIDL — BRUSH AND INK | 03.06.2023 — 15.07.2023
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Press release MARTIN PRASKA | KLAUS FUSSMANN | 22.04.2023 — 31.05.2023
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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
Invitation MARTIN PRASKA — Thank you, good, and yourself? | 22.04.2023 — 31.05.2023
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Invitation KLAUS FUSSMANN — LINOCUTS | 22.04.2023 — 31.05.2023
Press text PETER KRAWAGNA | ARNULF RAINER — PRINT GRAPHICS | 04.03.2023 — 19.04.2023
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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
Invitation PETER KRAWAGNA | 04.03.2023 — 19.04.2023
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