Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Fragments get a new code. The best subversion is to disfigure codes instead of destroying them. ...
About the artist
Joined In 2013
(133 Followers)
About the artist
Joined In 2013
(133 Followers)
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...
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Born:
Leoben, Austria 1976
Education:
2001 - 2005 Multimediaart, FH Salzburg
Degree:
Magister (FH) for artistic and creative professions
Current:
lives and works in Salzburg
Milestones:
1999 - First exhibition (Leoben - A journey to nowhere and back)
2001 - Experiments with décollages and spray paintings
2002 - Cut-outs and rip-it-ups (Décollage) of billboards
2005 - Photographic documentation of décollages
2006 - Overpaintings of décollages
2007 - Photographic documentation of urban fragments
2008 - Décollage on furniture and lighting
2009 - Photographic documentation of tags and urban inscriptions
2010 - Combining décollages and art historical paintings
2011 - First exhibition "covert and discovert history" in Graz (exhibition hall)
2012 - And ongoing exhibitions and pop-ups in Vienna, Munich, Stuttgart,
| Pörtschach, Wels, Mondsee, Leoben, Augsburg, Nürnberg,
2015 - Purchase collection Spallart
2016 - And ongoing commissioned artworks in Graz, Munich,
| New York City, Salzburg, Serfaus, Singapore, Vienna, Zirl
2017 - Stuttgart, Innsbruck, Linz, Vienna, Klagenfurt, Graz, Salzburg, Passau and many others ...
2018 - Pop-up exhibitions Augsburg, Friedrichshafen, Innsbruck, Linz, Vienna, Klagenfurt, Graz, Salzburg, Passau, Stuttgart, Obertauern
commissioned artworks in Linz, Graz, Vienna, Tyrol, Salzburg
2019 Pop-up exhibitions Munich, Stuttgart, Vienna, Feldkirc...
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