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14/7/2009

Three exhibitions

Salzburger Kunstverein - Kunstlerhaus, Salzburg

Distance Creates Desire. Ortung 2008

The "Distance Creates Desire" exhibit presents the results of the artist symposium, "ORTung," which is put on annually by the state of Salzburg. In 2008 eight artists worked specifically on the subject of tourism. Central to tourism is the (seemingly) authentic experience, the encounter with other places and cultures, the world as an exhibition, reality as a place of interest. In this context tourism becomes a field for exchange and the transitory.

An exhibition in the Deutschvilla in Strobl runs parallel to this (Exhibition opening Friday, July 17, 2009, 8 p.m.).

On the occasion of the exhibition a catalogue will be published.

Artists: Raphaël Cuomo und Maria Iorio, Chia-En Jao, Michael Höpfner, Uschi Huber, Silvia Yasmin Khan, Barbara Musil, Katrin Plavcak.

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Paweł Książek

The young Polish painter, Paweł Książek, presents at the Salzburg Kunstverein his first solo exhibition in an Austrian art institution.

The artist collected images of anonymous people on the Internet for the series "N.N. vs. Artists," which comprises over 40 images and can be seen at the Salzburg Kunstverein. These unsettling images show young people in "consciousness expanding" activities, usually involving alcohol and sex. The subjects walk a fine line between pranks, sadism, or abuse. This impression is reinforced in these artistically transposed images through references to art history, such as Caravaggio or Vienna Actionism. The references to actionist and performative practices from the 1960s and 70s are shown in the exhibition as a picture dictionary.

Paweł Książek‘s art projects stand out through the intense research and the interest in visual issues. His series, "Africanized Honey Bees", "Sylvia Plath", or "Silent Utopia", deal with subjects like racism, depression, or the utopian potential of modernist architecture in Poland in the 1920s.

In cooperation with the Vienna Polish Institute.

Paweł Książek, born 1973 in Andrychów, lives and works in Cracow

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Stefan Heizinger is showing his 2007 piece Synchronized Swimming as part of the exhibition series in Cafe'Cult #40.

The visibility of emotions plays an important role in Stefan Heizinger‘s work. His paintings begin with photographs that he selects for their memorability. These images of what the artist calls "a collective digital memory" increasingly take on a life of their own throughout the working process and ultimately become pictures of a fictional world residing between reality and imagination.

The perception and production of images is a central topic in Stefan Heizinger‘s artistic approach. By translating his own visual consumption of photographic templates into his visual language and linking it to personal experience and feelings, he unconsciously reveals mental processes that are part of his perception.

Stefan Heizinger, born in 1975 in Linz, lives and works in Salzburg. Stefan Heizinger studied painting at Mozarteum University and is a founding member of periscope – a fine arts initiative that has been completing new contemporary art projects in Salzburg since 2006. In 2007/08 Stefan Heizinger was a painting assistant at Mozarteum in Salzburg. Most recently he participated in the exhibitions Ist das so at plan.d. produzentengalerie in Düsseldorf, en face at kunstraum pro arte in Hallein, and De Oostenrijkers komen! at Galerie bij de Boeken in Ulft.


Image: Paweł Książek, N.N. 26 out of the series N.N. vs Artists, 2008, oil on canvas, 38 x 27 cm

Opening: Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 8 p.m.

Salzburger Kunstverein, Kunstlerhaus
Hellbrunner Strasse 3 - Salzburg
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