Post by 5piecesgallery on Jan 16, 2013 8:12:16 GMT -8
5 Pieces Gallery is pleased to show brand new works in this outstanding exhibition by Austrian artist Kevin A. Rausch (1980, Wolfsberg/Austria).
The exhibition will run at www.5piecesgallery.com from January 16th to February 15th 2013.
Probably when Kevin A. Rausch (1980, Wolfsberg/Austria) was still a child the artist was already focusing on the images in his head, on the overwriting of prescribed perceptions such as those presented in school books. And so precisely these were soon serving as sketchbooks and contributing to the liberation from clichés and prescribed patterns of thinking. After school he started to use painting to investigate world situations, processes and cultures and finally graduated from the Vienna School of Art in 2006.
And so today were are confronted with partly beguiling, partly melancholy, but also irritating pictures. Black and white often play the main role, and in this way what is being narrated, what the underlying mood is, can seldom be quickly recognised. Because stories are being told, even if there are many “abstract” elements. But what does figurative or abstract mean in this context? Is emotion something abstract? Does a figure in the picture mean that it is a protagonist in a narrative? Landscapes are almost always recognisable, but whether they exist on our planet or whether we are rather inclined to transfer them to another place in the universe – or at least to a time far in the future – this is often left to the observer. We have landscapes in front of us that hardly originate from fantasies of the next holiday planning but are reminiscent of nightmares: ice, snow, fallow landscapes, a great deal uncanny. Earth and air, fire and water appear to be in uproar and uncontrollable. It is with great difficulty that a human finds his or her place in this desolate wilderness.
But nevertheless, in his paintings Rausch is far from humourlessness or hopelessness or from the absence of romantic elements: suddenly, beautiful water lilies and a fruit-laden tree adorn the landscape in the thaw. The world seems to open up again and to want to show its beautiful side again, although humanity, with its restless and insatiable exploitation of the earth is working most strenuously to destroy precisely the resources that are substantially necessary for our survival, for hope and beauty. Perhaps it is the wide open spaces in the paintings that will not allow us to believe that the end is on the horizon!
The exhibition will run at www.5piecesgallery.com from January 16th to February 15th 2013.
Probably when Kevin A. Rausch (1980, Wolfsberg/Austria) was still a child the artist was already focusing on the images in his head, on the overwriting of prescribed perceptions such as those presented in school books. And so precisely these were soon serving as sketchbooks and contributing to the liberation from clichés and prescribed patterns of thinking. After school he started to use painting to investigate world situations, processes and cultures and finally graduated from the Vienna School of Art in 2006.
And so today were are confronted with partly beguiling, partly melancholy, but also irritating pictures. Black and white often play the main role, and in this way what is being narrated, what the underlying mood is, can seldom be quickly recognised. Because stories are being told, even if there are many “abstract” elements. But what does figurative or abstract mean in this context? Is emotion something abstract? Does a figure in the picture mean that it is a protagonist in a narrative? Landscapes are almost always recognisable, but whether they exist on our planet or whether we are rather inclined to transfer them to another place in the universe – or at least to a time far in the future – this is often left to the observer. We have landscapes in front of us that hardly originate from fantasies of the next holiday planning but are reminiscent of nightmares: ice, snow, fallow landscapes, a great deal uncanny. Earth and air, fire and water appear to be in uproar and uncontrollable. It is with great difficulty that a human finds his or her place in this desolate wilderness.
But nevertheless, in his paintings Rausch is far from humourlessness or hopelessness or from the absence of romantic elements: suddenly, beautiful water lilies and a fruit-laden tree adorn the landscape in the thaw. The world seems to open up again and to want to show its beautiful side again, although humanity, with its restless and insatiable exploitation of the earth is working most strenuously to destroy precisely the resources that are substantially necessary for our survival, for hope and beauty. Perhaps it is the wide open spaces in the paintings that will not allow us to believe that the end is on the horizon!