Untitled #4856, 2022 Painting

1953 born in Carinthia, Austria; studied biochemistry, art history, anthropology, psychology and philosophy in Vienna, Austria; 1976-1980 exhibitions in Austria, Italy, Spain, Germany and Switzerland; 1980 moved to New York City; 1980-1996 various exhibitions (group and one man) in Europe (Art Basel, Switzerland with Hans Hartung; Vienna, Austria with Franz West and Erwin Wurm) and the US (Jean Michel Basquiat, Jessica Stockholder, Keith Haring, Gustavo Torres, David Hammons, etc.); 1991 collaborated with Regina Taylor (spouse) and Joseph Papp, director of the Public Theater in Manhattan, on two plays staged for the New York Shakespeare Festival. Work is in European museums and European and US private collections. ARTIST'S STATEMENT: Cultural sciences practice pneumatology with an empirical disposition. For the now, this program can only be carried out by reconstruction and accumulation, because the "thing itself," the universe of influence climata of designed atmospheres, of modified airs and of adjusted, measured, legalized environments, has - with the very far reaching advances in the explication of natural scientific, technical, military, legislative legal, architectonic and artistic spheres - gained an almost unbeatable head start over the attempt to formulate concepts in cultural theory. As a result, the soundest approach for cultural theory to take would seem to be, in a first phase of self-confirmation, to orient itself devote itself to exploring climatic and air phenomena that are more with respect to the most highly-developed forms of scientific atmospheric description, that is meteorology and climatology, after which it could then apposite to culture and closer to persons. P.S./M.E. ..............