Kevin A Rausch

born in Wolfsberg/Carinthia/Austria, 1980Kevin A.Rausch Painting as View of the WorldOnly at a first glance do the works of Kevin A. Rausch (born in Carinthia, Austria) attest to a brittle, bleak apocalyptic mood; to desolatedness, grey battlegrounds, catastrophes, isolation, and the appendant weltschmerz. Once one takes a closer look, one can discover ironical associations within the collaged landscape with its strange small figures, set pieces, and animals, crossing the grey-and-white ground shades in a cheerful, colourful, and bold way. Here, weltschmerz is not spared of irony; gloomy predictions dont go without a wink. Behind this charmingly shy coquetry, a serious, straightforward access to painting and drawing, in the sense of an artistic method, consequently developed over the years, is concealed.Kevin A. Rauschs subtle works, which can be classified between neo-retro and modernity, are convincing due to their melancholic coherence, their fine nuances and layers and, most of all, by their boldly drawn lines. Their aim is not the irruption of a manipulative frenzy in colour, or a move to pure abstraction, but to include refined qualities which are united, forming a distinctive poetic. Sometimes the desire of an inwardly trav...

2005 Artist in Residence-The Townhouse Gallery, Cairo
2007 Artist in Residence-St.virgil, Salzburg

Solo Shows

2012

"black magic nectar, artspace st. virgil, salzburg


2011

"where ever you go, I`m already there, Gallery Gerersdorfer, Vienna

2010
"Berg Talfahrt-Kind,Galerie Vorspann,Bad Eisenkappel

2009
"Stendhal Syndrom",Atelier Wien
"Spuren verwischen",Videopräsentation, K 47 Keyclub, Wien

2008
"Penthouse Asylanten", Galerie Schloss Puchheim, OÖ
"Neue Arbeiten“, Galerie Ariadne, Wien

2007
"Star Digger", Zahnärztekammer Klagenfurt, K
"Zwischen Spuren, Spuren verwischen", Atelier-Flachgasse, Wien

2005
"Nightboat", Galerie Ariadne, Wien
"Tauro Entrada", Atelier-Burggasse, Wien

2004
"Ayfun", Info Research International, Wien
"The good, the bad, the ugly", Galerie Berndt Kulterer, Wolfsberg

2003
"3 Jahre Uli K.", Bildungshaus Sodalitas, Tainach
"Nyköping to Femöre", Infomedia, Wien

2002
"System of a down", Golfanlage Seltenheim, Klagenfurt

2001
"24 Dez.", Galerie Uckermann, St. Andrä

2000
"Huluvu", Warzilek Haus, Wolfsberg

Group Shows

2012

Art Fair Austria,with Gallery Gerersdorfer, Leopold Museum, Vienna
Art Austria, Gallery Gerersdorfer, Vienna



2011

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