Xenia Hausner
dal 22/10/2012 al 19/1/2013
Segnalato da
22/10/2012
Xenia Hausner
Essl Museum Contemporary Art, Klosterneuburg
Surviving. The intensive interaction between the painter and model on the one hand and the struggle with the material and the means of painting on the other is still visible in the finished picture.
The XENIA HAUSNER: ÜberLeben exhibition gives a deep insight into the work of the renowned Austrian painter Xenia Hausner. Recent large-format figurative paintings from various international collections can be seen as well as new works from the artists studio. The heart of the show is an outsized, threatening and breathtaking photo installation made especially for the rotunda in the Essl Museum.
“ÜberLeben” (“Surviving”), the title of the exhibition, accords with a fundamental idea of Xenia Hausner’s work, which is marked by a mysterious ambiguity. Her art is truthful and expresses something existential about life, but at the same time it lives from an enigmatic cast of figures and consciously employed symbolic allusions that escape explicit interpretation. “I attempt to understand or to catch an inner essence. It might be the person in his or her own biography – what one would classically subsume under ‘portrait’ – or it is the person in an invented constellation.” (Xenia Hausner in the exhibition catalogue)
Press office:
Erwin Uhrmann (head), uhrmann@essl.museum, +43 (0) 2243/370 5060
Regina Holler-Strobl, holler-strobl@essl.museum, +43 (0) 2243/370 5062
press-conference: Tuesday, 23 October 2012, 10.00 a.m., at the Essl Museum
with Xenia Hausner, Prof. Agnes Essl and Günther Oberhollenzer
10.00 a.m. press conference, afterwards guided tour with the artist and curators
free press-shuttle: 9.30 a.m., from Albertinaplatz 1, 1010 Vienna and return
opening: Tuesday, 23 October 2012, 7.30. p.m:
welcome by Agnes Essl
opening statement: Günther Oberhollenzer, curator Essl Museum
Free bus shuttle
Visitors can reach the Essl Museum conveniently by free bus shuttle from Vienna city centre, Albertinaplatz 1
(Tues – Sun, 10 a.m., 12 a.m., 2 p.m., 4 p.m. and return)
Essl Museum– Contemporary Art
An der Donau-Au 1, A-3400 Klosterneuburg / Vienna, Austria
Tue-Sun 10.00 – 18.00, Wed 10.00 – 21.00
Tickets Essl Museum: regular € 7,- und reduced € 5