Bertram Hasenauer. Sulur
dal 14/5/2010 al 17/7/2010
Segnalato da
14/5/2010
Bertram Hasenauer. Sulur
Museum der Moderne - Rupertinum, Salzburg
The exhibition, which presents an overview of works from the years 2000 - 2010, juxtaposes 15 paintings to 15 drawings. Hasenauer's artistic interest is characterized by a sensitive view of man, of others and of his own surroundings. He concentrates on faces, eyes, the bearing of his protagonists. His works are not "real" portraits, but conceived, ideal images of human figures and other beings, who keep their identity and presence.
Curator Margit Zuckriegl
The MdM Rupertinum presents a selection of new works by Bertram Hasenauer, who was
born in Saalfelden in 1970 and has been living in Berlin since 1998. The Museum der
Moderne Salzburg has acquired works by Bertram Hasenauer for nearly 10 years.
Portraits, landscapes and date paintings are grouped around works from the museum's
own collection.
Hasenauer’s artistic interest is characterized by a sensitive view of man, of others and of
his own surroundings. He concentrates on faces, eyes, the bearing of his protagonists.
His works are not "real" portraits, but conceived, ideal images of human figures and
other beings, who keep the secrets of their existence, their identity and presence.
Bertram Hasenauer’s human figures are present and absent at the same time. They have
distanced themselves from our hectic, rapidly changing world to fulfil their own mission
that is unknown to the viewer. They have withdrawn into themselves, concentrate on
their inner self, averted, veiled or melting with the amorphous background. They are
"lost" characters: the real world of the viewer partially merges with the surreal terrain of
phantasy.
Hasenauer's human beings can be mute girls or thoughtful young men, who are set in
contrast to silhouette-like images of nature: intertwined branches of a tree, the night
sky, silhouettes of bushes. The human images have a certain enigmatic character,
comparable to an invisible aura. There is something magical and unreal about them, as
if not of this world. They are somehow removed from the here and now, as
suggested by the title of one of Hasenauer’s works: "You somehow slip away". The
images move in an uncertain sphere, somewhere between present and absent, real and
magical, sensual and extrasensory, between the disappearance of the body and the
appearance of the soul. Bertram Hasenauer does not portray people or paint a specific
tree, but depicts his memories of persons and things.
The exhibition at the MdM
Rupertinum, which presents an overview of works from the years 2000 - 2010,
juxtaposes 15 paintings to 15 drawings.
Bertram Hasenauer was awarded the Georg Eisler Prize in 2008.
A catalogue will be published in conjunction with the exhibition.
Image: Bertram Hasenauer, o. T. (Porträt), 2009, Buntstift auf Papier, MdM Salzburg
Press contact:
Christine Forstner T+43.662 84 22 20-601 presse@mdmsalzburg.at
Opening: Saturday 15 May 2010, 11.00 a.m.
Museum der Moderne Rupertinum
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