Onkel Susi
20 Dec 2013 - 23 Jan 2014
ONKEL SUSI
20 December 2013 - 23 January 2014
The exhibition format “Starting from Hystyria” shows, at irregular intervals, different positions in contemporary art production of broad Styrian provenance. The series, which is always accompanied by a fanzine, begins with the Vienna-based artist ONKEL SUSI in Raum D of the Künstlerhaus.
The artwork of ONKEL SUSI (born 1970 in Scheifling, lives in Vienna) embraces gestural-expressive, colourful painting and spans along its own mediatic edges to reach spontaneous loopholes in the dominant matrix of imperative self-invention and self-identity. At high velocity he juggles with discriminabilities between rendered depictions of a momentary self and the role of the painter or the potentialities of the medium. ONKEL SUSI draws on an explosive pictorial language with multifaceted structures that gives rise to associations with (self-)portraits, children’s drawings, or certain examples of Neo-Expressionism, yet without denying their processual character, which encourages the paintings to also take on the form of sculptural arrangements at any given time.
A fanzine will be published to accompany the exhibition.
Exhibitions (Selection)
Passing Through, Galerie Walcheturm / Eva Presenhuber, Zurich (1994)
Suspension, Fotohof Salzburg, Salzburg (1994)
Ausstellung für Kühe am Heininghof, St.Lambrecht, Styria (2006)
20 December 2013 - 23 January 2014
The exhibition format “Starting from Hystyria” shows, at irregular intervals, different positions in contemporary art production of broad Styrian provenance. The series, which is always accompanied by a fanzine, begins with the Vienna-based artist ONKEL SUSI in Raum D of the Künstlerhaus.
The artwork of ONKEL SUSI (born 1970 in Scheifling, lives in Vienna) embraces gestural-expressive, colourful painting and spans along its own mediatic edges to reach spontaneous loopholes in the dominant matrix of imperative self-invention and self-identity. At high velocity he juggles with discriminabilities between rendered depictions of a momentary self and the role of the painter or the potentialities of the medium. ONKEL SUSI draws on an explosive pictorial language with multifaceted structures that gives rise to associations with (self-)portraits, children’s drawings, or certain examples of Neo-Expressionism, yet without denying their processual character, which encourages the paintings to also take on the form of sculptural arrangements at any given time.
A fanzine will be published to accompany the exhibition.
Exhibitions (Selection)
Passing Through, Galerie Walcheturm / Eva Presenhuber, Zurich (1994)
Suspension, Fotohof Salzburg, Salzburg (1994)
Ausstellung für Kühe am Heininghof, St.Lambrecht, Styria (2006)