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covert and discovert history 167 - The Kiss Artwork - Limited Edition of 50

Günter Konrad

Austria

Mixed Media, Spray Paint on Aluminium

Size: 31.5 W x 31.5 H x 0.2 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Covert and discovered history 167 - The Kiss - is a mixed media reworking by artist Günter Konrad of a work originally created by Gustav Klimt in 1907/1908. „The beauty in art is always true, but the truth is not always pretty.“ - Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel - 1804 - 1861 The transformation of the known, the inclusion of the unknown and the composition of opposites. Konrad‘s series of collages and overpaintings is titled „Covert and discovered history“. Since 2011 he has been combining fragments of famous individual works from art history with his own drawings, spray paintings, sketches and snapshots in graphics and photo programs in this serial work. On the one hand Konrad goes into the past, searches for art-historical artefacts of high culture from past epochs and on the other hand he works on new, wild, unbridled, analogue and digital image worlds. He liquefies fixed codes and creates a new visual grammar. The aim is to unite opposites and bring them into harmony.

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Mixed Media:

Spray Paint on Aluminium

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:

50

Size:

31.5 W x 31.5 H x 0.2 D in

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Fragments get a new code. The best subversion is to disfigure codes instead of destroying them. see - Roland Barthes - In my artistic work I am talking about the ongoing change, connection and communication between the inner and outer worlds, and about the inevitable bond between art and human life in general. I feel drawn to the tension between opposites, the grey areas between black and white, the confusion and contemplation, stereotypes and prejudice. Décollages - ripped or lacerated posters - are part of everyday aesthetics. In their wildness, rejection can be deciphered - a manifestation of the spontaneous and direct expression. Artists like Raymond Hains and Jacques Villeglé recognized the quality of this un-conventional form of art. I try to transform this method into our contemporary digital age. I‘m currently working on a series of digital décollage and digital overpaintings titled „covert and discovered history“. Here I merge digitalized, famous single works of art history with my own photographs of anonymous, collective decollages, tags and urban fragments. In the melting pot of bits and bytes I liquefy the contrasting codes and add them together to a new whole. On the one hand you have the art historical artifacts of high culture from the past eras and on the other hand the wild, unbridled, credible expression, the codes, the inscriptions of the current visual grammar combined with my own paintings and writings. My aim is to connect those two antithetical approaches to art in my work and so create something utterly new.

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