The twelfth exhibition of the bechter kastowsky gallery shows seven artists from the gallery's programme. Each of these seven artists will be represented in the exhibition with new works.
Lorenz Estermann has created new picturesque houses: neat painted bathhouses from whose terrace you can jump into the cool water with the help of a diving board - if it weren't for the fact that they are models standing on chipboard.
Aurelia Gratzer is working on new canvases. In these, she continues to present her play of abstract perceptions. Architectural photos are exaggeratedly divided into surfaces and painted individually as such. The result is a break in the perceived sensory impression, as the real perspectives are broken up with painterly means.
Karen Holländer has one and the same figure descend a winding staircase on her canvas. The view from above, the caught glimpse of the figure dressed in yellow as she moves downwards, holding on to the banister, all symbolise Karen Holländer's work: temporality is depicted. It is also the same figure that can be transformed into a marionette in small ‘showcases’.
Following his solo exhibition, Martin Schnur will present a new canvas work in the gallery - a female figure surrounded by light and fabric.
Anneliese Schrenk will be showing new leather objects: washed, dried, crumpled up, but also a leather skin on a coat hook. In her case, we would like to draw your attention to the exhibition in the Konzils-Gedächtnis-Kirche Lainz in the 13th district. This will open two days after our exhibition - on Saturday 14 June.
Ulrike Stubenböck brings her own way of expressing the medium to the canvas with her analytical abstract painting. Starting with colour series, the oil paint is applied to the canvas in strips and then smudged in the direction of writing with the help of a palette knife. A deceleration takes place - the preparation of the canvas is elaborate and time-consuming - the actual painting, on the other hand, is created in one go, otherwise the work has to be started all over again. The question of the end point in the work is thus always immanent.
Walter Vopava presents new works on canvas and paper. His abstract colour surfaces, applied in a reduced colour palette, radiate depth and are convincing in their ‘all-over’ appearance.
