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28/4/2003

Karl Korab

Hilger Contemporary, Wien

New Works - Oil Paintings, Gouaches, Collages, Drawings

From 30 April 2003 onwards, GALERIE ERNST HILGER will show new oil paintings, gouaches, collages, as well as graphic work by Karl Korab. Since the mid-seventies, the gallery has been following up on the work of this artist from Lower Austria, who has just turned 65. The exhibition is scheduled until 24 May 2003.

The theme of Karl Korab's pictures is "landscapes". However, this is not the traditional style of landscape painting. The image presented by nature is shown in condensed form, reduced to its essential features. In other words, Karl Korab is showing the emotional response, his pictures have more of an impressionistic character, rather than being an optical reproduction of the landscape motifs, in the form of relics.
"... Karl Korab has a highly focused approach to his landscape paintings, both to the picture as a whole and to its elements. He creates landscapes with the landscape elements found in nature. Like in collages, he includes objects in his painted pictures..."
"...Karl Korab's artistic focus is clearly on painting. ..... The world of colors is his space for artistic adventure. ..... His material-oriented style of painting relates to colors as materials, on the one hand, which are usually applied to the surface in broad impasto strokes, as well as to colored materials, on the other hand, which are applied to the surface, once again arranged according to the structural features of the composition. Together with the applied mass of paint, they form a consistent conglomerate that becomes an "entity" in the eye of the beholder when experiencing the painting. ....." (Peter Assmann: "Von den Rändern zum Zentralen" (From the Borders to the Center) in: "Karl Korab, Bildwerke 1960-1999" (Karl Korab: Images 1960 - 1999), Vienna, 1999)

"... I began to take an interest in the world of things, in the objects of everyday life. To me, they were not motionless props; they had a life of their own, because of the traces that people had left on them. Increasingly, invented objects came to dominate my pictures; things that do not exist but could exist because they carry in them the experience gained in the world of real things. They are not ends in themselves, but elements that are structured to make up a functioning organism. They have been assigned their specific place, cannot be moved and cannot exist outside their terms of reference. They reflect the existence of people and testify to our civilization. ..." (Karl Korab: "Einiges über mich und meine Arbeit" (A Few Things about Myself and my Work), in: "Karl Korab, Bildwerke 1960-1999" (Karl Korab: Images 1960 - 1999), Vienna, 1999)

Short Biography
1937: born at Falkenstein/Lower Austria
1957- 64: studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, master course of Sergius Pauser (Master School Prize, Golden Füger Medal)
1997: Golden Honor Medal for Achievements for Lower Austria
Selected exhibitions since 1990 (exhibitions since 1960)
1990 Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna
1992 Schloss Schwarzenau, Lower Austria; Galerie Ernst Hilger, Frankfurt/M
1993 Städtische Galerie Haus Seel, Siegen; Galerie Art House, Bregenz; Stiftsgalerie Millstatt
1994 Galerie Vieille du Temple, Paris; Galerie Welz, Salzburg
1995 Galerie Huber-Nising, Frankfurt; Galerie in der Schmiede, Pasching; Galerie Zuta, Wiesbaden
1997 Schloss Grafenegg, Lower Austria; 1998 Burg Lockenhaus, Burgenland; Die Galerie, Frankfurt/M; Galerie Welz, Salzburg
1999 Museum of Art History, Palais Harrach, Vienna
2003 Minoritenkloster Tulln; Egon-Schiele-Museum, Tulln; Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna

Opening: Tuesday, 29. April 2003, 19.00Uhr
The artist will be present.

Ernst Hilger Gallery
A-1010 Vienna, Dorotheergasse 5
TEL.: +43-1-512 53 15
FAX: +43-1-513 91 26

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