Galerie Tanglberg’s major autumn show brings together two important artists from the Austrian art scene
Maria Moser shows new, energetic and expressive paintings.
The colour red is characteristic of her work and is reminiscent of glowing iron: “…it is the primordial material iron, which I make my own for my brute “representation”, homage to the archaic primordial matter; the interior of the earth, the hot heart of things…” Her paintings are existential in nature, they stand for life processes, for inner human transformations and psychological change.Her work has had a lasting influence on abstract art in Austria since 1945.
Rudolf Leitner-Gründberg with newly created, large-format paintings and sensitive, expansive installations, in which gold, gold leaf, is also integrated as a painting material, which fascinates with a special lucid, spherical quality of light. For the artist, the colour gold represents a space of timelessness, a space of spiritual confrontation: “…For me, these paintings are abstraction and a concentrate of emotional density. For me, this is a key to a timeless sense of the world. Past and future become present in the pictures.” Beginning and end at the same time.
Maria Moser
*Born in Frankenburg, Upper Austria in 1948. 1968 – 1973 Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, 1973 Diploma in Painting , 1974/75 Egypt Scholarship, lives as a freelance artist in Frankenburg.
After some early large sculptures made of iron, steel, wood and stone, Moser is almost exclusively occupied with painting. She mostly paints large-format oil paintings on canvas, as well as works on paper and graphics. She often uses impressions from her father’s forge in abstract form in her works (including Scale,Bath of Blood,Anvil,Bending and Breaking). She finds other motifs when travelling, in nature and in scrap yards. Red nuances are symptomatic of her work. She uses colour to create lively depth and spatial dimensions that are imbued with vitality. This allows the viewer to immerse themselves in a painterly cosmos that leads them to the origins of their existence. Among other things, she created the stained glass windows of the parish churches in Grieskirchen and Schwanenstadt and designed the church interior of the parish church of St Konrad in Linz-Froschberg.
Rudolf Leitner-Gründberg
Rudolf Leitner-Gründberg was born in 1955 on Gründberg in Linz, Upper Austria.From 1976 to 1980, he studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna under Bazon Brock and Oswald Oberhuber Painting. From 1980 onwards, he exhibited extensively in Austria and abroad.Since 1987 Rudolf Leitner-Gründberg has lived and worked in Bubendorf, Wolfsbach, Lower Austria.
The artist works in cycles that develop over the years, with painting,drawing, object and spatial installation. With the works of his OPUS series a change in his painting took place until the early 1990s, it was extended into the space with objects and took on an installative character that ultimately led to a Gesamtkunstwerk. The viewer is no longer a counterpart to the work, but is included in this picture-object-space concept. One of Leitner-Gründberg’s early themes is the crown, which he integrates into his painting. For him, the crown is a symbol of the highest form we can achieve in life. He sees it as a symbol of life for every human being. In 1991, he created the temporary monument – The Crown on Gründberg, followed in 1999 by The Crown in Kaiserpark, Bad Ischl. The third crown project (planned from New York via Europe to St. Petersburg) was realised from 2014-2016, in Wolfsbach, New York, Salzburg and Linz.
In the Golden Paintings gold leaf is integrated into the painting in combination with the colours yellow, red, blue and white. Gold as a symbol of timelessness, as a metaphor for immortality, but also as a sign of light beauty and spiritual realisation. The artist’s credo: “This painting should succeed in extending the present into the future as well as the past and thus make a greater continuum of time perceptible in the present image”.
Book: Labor des Glücks, Die Berührung der Welt; (ed.Carl Aigner, Barbara Leitner-Szapáry) presents the extensive Gesamtkunstwerk.
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Art today?
Visit the exhibition and then discuss art over a meal together in the restaurant. The Tanglberg/Schloss Hochhaus gallery thus caters to the tastes of art lovers.
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