Nature Is Within
dal 7/10/2015 al 6/2/2016
Segnalato da
Thomas Ender
Friedrich
Jakob Gauermann
Blasius Hofel
Johann Peter Krafft
Johann Kniep
Vinzenz Kreuzer
Joseph Kuwasseg
Christian Friedrich Mali
Johann Nepomuk Passini
Thomas Ender
Markus Pernhart
Ignaz Raffalt
Carl Reichert
Anton Schiffer
Alois Schonn
Joseph Selleny
Franz Steinfeld
Melanie Sturgkh
Matthaus Loder
Georg Matthaus Vischer
Michael Wutky
Wolfgang Hollegha
Morris Louis
Sam Francis
Gudrun Danzer
Gunther Holler-Schuster
7/10/2015
Nature Is Within
Bruseum - Neue Galerie Graz, Graz
Wolfgang Hollegha is one of the most significant painters to have emerged in Austria after 1945. His key works are presented within their international context alongside pieces by his fellow-artists of the time, Morris Louis and Sam Francis.
The Painter Wolfgang Hollegha
Curated by: Günther Holler-Schuster
In the person of Wolfgang Hollegha (born in Klagenfurt in 1929, lives on the Rechberg in Styria) the Neue Galerie Graz honours one of the most significant painters to have emerged in Austria after 1945. As a member of the avant-garde painters’ group around the Galerie nächst St. Stephan in Vienna, he achieved early international success.
His painting is always based on the perception of objects, on the relationship between the artist and visible reality. Within this context the human body serves as a medium, as it were, absorbing images, transforming them and reproducing them, a process in which the body’s motor functions play an essential role. Hollegha starts by attempting to capture a motif physically by drawing it. Then in the painting – which is usually large-format – the motif is subsequently dismantled into a system of colour patches. In this way, an equivalent of the original object is produced. The relationship with the object is augmented with – and almost replaced by – a new, artistic reality.
The exhibition at the Neue Galerie traces Hollegha’s path up to the current day by showing key works. These are presented within their international context alongside pieces by his fellow-artists of the time, Morris Louis and Sam Francis.
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Until 17.01.2016
Landscape: Transformation of an Idea
Art of the 19th century from the collection of the Neue Galerie Graz
Curated by: Gudrun Danzer, Günther Holler-Schuster
The term “landscape” can be understood in many different ways – both inside and outside of artistic discourse. It can refer to the real living environment of a person or to an area visited by tourists or utilised for tourism. It can refer to land researched within different disciplines, or to land which is changed or used for various purposes.
On the ground floor the following topics can be seen:
opening up the landscape – transforming the landscape into an ideology – the idealisation of the landscape – autonomous nature – images of far away: between ideal and reality – geological research and visual representation.
There are pieces by Thomas Ender, Friedrich und Jakob Gauermann, Blasius Höfel nach Johann Peter Krafft, Johann Kniep, Vinzenz Kreuzer, Joseph Kuwasseg, Christian Friedrich Mali, Johann Nepomuk Passini nach Thomas Ender, Markus Pernhart, Ignaz Raffalt, Carl Reichert, Anton Schiffer, Alois Schönn, Joseph Selleny, Franz Steinfeld, Melanie Stürgkh nach Matthäus Loder, Georg Matthäus Vischer, Michael Wutky (attributed) etc.
Image: Wolfgang Hollegha, Red Doll, 1968, Oil on canvas, 160 × 154 cm, Privately owned; Photo: N. Lackner/UMJ
Press contact:
Christoph Pelzl, Anna Fras, P: +43/316/8017-9213 F: +43/316/8017-9253 presse@museum-joanneum.at
Opening: 08.10.2015, 7 pm
Neue Galerie Graz
Joanneumquarter, access Kalchberggasse, 8010 Graz, Austria
Opening Hours
Tue–Sun: 10am–5pm