Ingeborg, meine Liebe
Winter poem
Paravent
Fille d’artiste
Schmidlehner’s second work in the exhibition dates from 2021 and has the French title Fille d’artiste. Compared to the previous one, it veers stylistically more towards a monochrome abstraction and the muted slowing down of a post-modern ‘ecliptic of presence’ (Jean Baudrillard). In the top section, the painting shows the outline of a girlish figure rendered in thin green lines that, despite […]
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Wiener Blut
Idyllic and bucolic moods appear on Viennese artist’s canvas, just like in the Wiener Blut operetta, in close proximity to private tragedies (here an ancestral tree with stains of blood) and other less joyful life events. A significant moment in Schmidlehner’s paintings, moreover, is the border and the relationship that runs between man and architecture. An example of the latter is […]
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Anders gedacht
Mungenast consciously refers to her earlier works from the 1990s. Similarly as in them, she makes circular movements within a circle using a mechanical construction she had designed specifically for this purpose – a prosthetic extension of a hand which makes painterly gestures. Starting from the centre, she follows a spiral line towards the outer frame of the work. There the line breaks […]
from the ‘Kinderzeichnungen’ series
The artist likes to evoke emotions and moods that are associated with childhood. Two pencil drawings from 1988, from the series Kinderzeichnungen (translated as ‘children’s drawings’), directly relate to this period of life. They betray the introverted, dreamy character characteristic of Rondinone while remaining rich in playful references to the history of painting. In one work, the motif of a painter turning […]
Torso from the series Transmutation
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