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Beni Altmüller

exhibition: March 16 – April 1, 2011
performance: March 24, 2011, 7.30 pm
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"Fragmentierte Bäume" for the group-exhibition 2011 Year of forests Feb 21 - March 8, 2011
The sum total and its parts, the wood and its trees, the search for the smallest building blocks of matter in the particle accelerator of the research centre CERN - all this can be read from Beni Altmüller’s “Fragmentierte Bäume”.

For more information about the artist: www.benialtmueller.de

Wolfgang Georgsdorf

"Permanent conference" (Xylomat), 2011/2011, for the group-exhibition 2011 Year of forests
Feb 21 - March 8, 2011

In the wide range of Wolfgang Georgsdorf´s works, sounds and music repeatedly play a key role. And so we also find variants of the "Large forest xylophone" he developed in many of his sound- and forest-related works. The sound-installation "Permanent Conference" is however not played by himself, but is triggered by approaching viewers.

Anselm Glück

"Die Bäume schwenken", 2010, from the series: Trashing the planet
for the group-exhibition 2011 Year of forests Feb 21 - March 8, 2011

Anselm Glück´s aesthetic demand is authenticity, an unspoilt naturalness of handwriting. Whether he meets his own demands, he alone knows. His not written but painted words appear to have happened, without intent. In line with the growing of trees, their swaying in the rhythm of the wind and the cycle of the seasons, what shapes time and thus transience with reliable regularity.

Elisabeth Homar-Zogmayer

"Zyklus Waldgeschichten" for the group-exhibition 2011 Year of forests Feb 21 - March 8, 2011
Whereas artists everywhere impress with room-filling oversize formats, Elisabeth Homar-Zogmayer pares back her work space, reduces her interpretations of the forest to nearly the size of matchboxes and opens up stories, parables, though experiments to visitors of her small world who are open to them. For this she uses the raw material forest.

Miniature sculptures and collages for the exhibition "UPcycling" with Irene Wölfl, Peter Rosmanith, Hans Ringhofer. June 10 - September 3, 2010
The exhibition "UPcycling" shows tiny sculptures and miniature collages made of trash by Elisabeth Homar-Zogmayer. The artist's work reveals her enviably preservative approach to life. On the one hand there is the small sized item, the miniature, she and we with her are pleased with and which she opposes to the gigantisms of our time in an unobtrusive yet tenacious way. On the other hand there are her materials: discarded, worn-out bits and pieces washed ashore, namely on Elisabeth Homar-Zogmayer's quiet, peaceful shore. She not only saves these items from ending their existence in a landfill somewhere, but also charges them with new life-affirming energy making them radiate refreshing optimism.

Elisabeth Homar-Zogmayer's works tell stories. Stories of subtle wisdom and the teachings of life as materialized in her "finds". A sculpture of the artist is hence a composition of cultural and natural fragments with their distinct messages which she adopts and uses for her own statements. The poetic titles accomplish her carefully composed 3D-pictures. At the same time these titles set our imagination on fire, make adventures arise in our heads. In her typical way she explains her philosophy with the help of her titles:
"Assiduously I'm knitting my mental framework: quite desirable dizziness, a paradise for rent, the heart runs off and away, goldilocks, luck spreads, flowery island-tinents, then I won't stir from the spot, my cage has always been open, my burden is light, the housing problem seems solved, a ship arrives, come fly with me!"

For more information about the artist: www.elisabeth-homar.at

Andreas Kattner

"Pygmalion", 2005-2011, for the group-exhibition 2011 Year of forests Feb 21 - March 8, 2011

Andreas Kattner in this way invites us to reflect on the relationship between nature and culture, to think about different concepts of nature an, last but not least, emphasises the necessity of dialogue with nature.

For more information about the artist: www.derkattner.com

Renate Krätschmer

Photo-Paintings for the exhibition "KONTRASTE" with Jean-Paul Dumas-Grillet, Renate Krätschmer, Brigitte Pamperl. Nov 5 - Dez 18, 2010

Interdisciplinary work, in the sense of an enlarged definition of art and of "conceptual Dadaism". Neither nor, but both at the same time. Object art, room installations, correspondence in the free terrain, interventions in the urban space, films, texts, performing work tending towards a synthesis of the arts, and a specifically developed form of processional theatre and subsequently of catwalk theatre.

For more information about the artist: www.kusch.ws

Robert Mittringer

"Werkstoff. Inspiration. Botschaft." (material. inspiration. message.)
exhibition: Jan 27 - March 9, 2012

Robert Mittringer works with "poor, ordinary" materials like cardboard, wood, brick and glue, gets his inspiration for his timeless socio-critical comments from objects found in the nature or dumped away by civilization. He recognizes his message in the waste products, which he models gently and transforms it by celebrating the characteristics of the material.

For more information about the artist: www.kroart.at/en/artist/robert-mittringer

Brigitte Pamperl

Video "ATEM", 2010, for the group-exhibition 2011 Year of forests Feb 21 - March 8, 2011

Breath as the major life function has always been understood as a link between body and soul. Light and breath are preconditions for life and nature and have an impact on our day-to-day state of mind and body. Here this motif, which is significant for Brigitte Pamperl, is transferred into an equivalence of breath and wind.

Photo-Paintings for the exhibition "KONTRASTE" with Jean-Paul Dumas-Grillet, Renate Krätschmer, Robert Staudinger. Nov 5 - Dez 18, 2010
all days – For me every day starts with my first gaze out of the window to the sky and the atmosphere of the day, which I capture daily on a picture. Day by day and everyday the changing light mood influences the individual feeling of life. Contrary to the linear concept of time which prevails in industrial societies, the natural rhythm of the progression of seasons is inseparably linked to nature as cyclical time.

A whole life long, periods of light have a subconscious, subjective impact on our psychological mood. Light and breath are preconditions for life and nature. When we talk about the weather and our individual state of mind, the socially connecting significance of the topic can be experienced every day.

The starting point for my computer-graphical picture works are photos which have been "photographed into the AIR". Sky, clouds, condensation trails (airlines, airspaces, airways, etc.) are condensed, mixed, twisted, contrasted, deleted and again made visible – to pause in the moment when the process of genesis tilts into abstraction.

For more information about the artist: www.brigittepamperl-art.com

Stefan Sakic

"Waldfragmente", 2010, for the group-exhibition 2011 Year of forests
Feb 21 - March 8, 2011

The fundamental idea of the installation is to demonstrate that the use of found forest materials does not necessarliy create a forest idyll. The installation "Waldfragmente" puts into the foreground the fragile and torn-apart elements as reflections of a non-romantic conception of nature.

For more information about the artist: www.stefansakic.eu

Marika Vicari

"In the heart of the forest", 2010, for the group-exhibition 2011 Year of forests
Feb 21 - March 8, 2011

The installation invites you to enter the forest: so stroll, daydream, listen, dive into a dreamlike reality - albeit only momentarily.

For more information about the artist: www.kroart.at/artist/marika-vicari

Leo Zogmayer

"WALDEN", 2010, for the group-exhibition 2011 Year of forests
Feb 21 - March 8, 2011

Leo Zogmayer, master of reduction, condenses the living space of the forest into a wooden ball. And adds to his synonym for our planet earth a short passage from Henry David Thoreau´s "Walden", the words of which he puts into a new sequence. The succinct alphabetical order of words breaks up the text´s cognitive structure. Deprived of its syntactic order it turns into a blurry picture, quasi liquefied and unfolds new options with a poetic touch.

For more information about the artist: www.leozogmayer.com