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5/11/2008

Two exhibitions

Hilger Contemporary, Wien

Nikolaus Moser
Dialog 1

Nikolaus Moser has the capability of transposing emotions into images. The relationship of Nikolaus Moser to colour is vital and sensuous – many of his oil paintings are produced on the alpine pasture where he retreats every summer in order to draw from the full source of inspiration. Occasionally earth, stones and ash are mixed with the spattled-on oils, even lending the works the dimensions of sculpture. The beholder has to take time to see into the works. Some experiences are projected into the picture, which for its own part is able to respond to them. So the pictures do not convey a narrative or representative basic character. They call to be interpreted as a membrane, as matrix for further thought communication with the Other. The observer completes the picture for him- and herself, although the painter has himself declared it to be finished. (cit. Dieter Ronte, Bonn, October 2002).

Christian Ludwig Attersee on Nikolaus Moser: "(...) Nikolaus Moser can dispense with Picasso’s narrative art, Monet’s power of colour and Mondrian’s ruler. He plunges brush and spattle into the arable expanse of the painting like a ship ploughing the waves, time and time again releasing new objective associations."

Nikolaus Moser
1956 born in Spittal/Drau
1981 University of Applied Arts, Vienna with Carl Unger
1996 Sandoz prizewinner

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Paul Kranzler
New Crew

In 2007, Paul Kranzler took photos of young people in poses of their own in the Upper Austrian countryside – he in fact gave them the title "Poses". His models called themselves member of the New Crew, which took over the entire village. Besides these photos, the exhibition is showing portraits and views from England and the USA 2007-2008, where similar youth groups live, pose and appropriate space for themselves. To a certain extent New Crew means "new generation", because for Paul Kranzler the boys and girls are the "New Inheritors of the Earth".
The shoot location doesn't play a pre-eminent role in a globalised youth culture – the protagonists in the Upper Austrian province use the same stylistic means in presenting themselves. Their identity and loyalties are like those of their peers in the big cities of the UK and the USA.


Image: Nikolaus Moser, O.T., 2008, Oil on canvas 130x170 cm

Galerie Ernst Hilger
A-1010 Vienna, Dorotheergasse 5

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