TextImages
William-Josh Beck
Andrea Pernegr
Drago Prelog
Veronika Rodenberg
Emil Toman
Eduardo Vega de Seoane
Irene Wölfl
Leo Zogmayer
on view: 18/06/2025 - 26/08/2025
(summer break: 28/07/2025 - 08/08/2025)
(summer break: 28/07/2025 - 08/08/2025)
TextImages do not depict — they narrate, associate, and invite personal interpretation. Yet they can also be read abstractly, without the distraction of representational content. The exhibition TextImages presents a diverse and engaging spectrum of eight distinct ways in which text can be employed as a visual element.
Willam-Josh Beck makes music with brush and ink on paper. His calligraphic compositions visualize resonance — capturing sound through sweeping strokes. He aims to transcribe what is heard, not what is seen. His auditory images modulate space and emptiness, extract the music of his surroundings, and condense acoustic environments into swinging black-and-white glyphs. Beck lives and works in an untouched landscape between sea and forest. His creative process is in harmony with this ecosystem. The materials he uses — water, soot ink, charcoal, softwood or mulberry paper — embody the four elements that form both the physical and conceptual foundation of his work.
presented works by William-Josh Beck
Andrea Pernegr’s diary-like visual stories reflect mundane moments of everyday life, charged with emotions that are personally meaningful. Representational elements appear only as symbolic metaphors. Texts, letters, and even abstract symbols serve merely as visual components that underline her mood or her relationship to the creation of the image.
She transforms the abstraction of tangible feelings — or her feelings toward certain objects — into symbols of a day well lived. Seemingly carefree, and untroubled by artistic styles or theories, she captures what feels important in that very moment. Andrea Pernegr follows only her inner impulse, driven by an unwavering passion in the act of painting.
presented works by Andrea Pernegr
Script-based imagery was a lifelong theme for Drago Prelog, occupying him for over 70 years — a span he counts from his earliest attempts at age three. Even then, it was not the content of text that fascinated him, but its form. The written image left a lasting impression — he imitated it, reformulated it by lining up strokes in sequence, like written lines.
Later, as a freelance artist, he rewrote the Bible and the Quran in his own distinctive script. At the academy, students even asked to be taught in writing. This exhibition presents a small, refined selection of his work.
presented works by Drago Prelog
Dissolution and Reordering is the title Veronika Rodenberg gives her image cycle. Following the principles of Concrete Art, she begins with the universal form of the square, dividing it diagonally — eight times. The arrangement of the resulting, ever-smaller triangles made of lines and surfaces is revealed solely through the written number assigned to each. The alphabet — a symbol of pure human intellect — guides the structure and the logic behind the visual composition. A simple algorithm with infinite potential becomes a metaphor for the diversity of life, for becoming and fading away.
presented works by Veronika Rodenberg
The free spirit Emil Toman found his painterly freedom as a logical progression into Informalism. Within this movement, he felt connected to the universe itself. This universe — the immense aesthetic of infinite chaos — became both his imaginary motif and his source of fascination. The idea of the unimaginable finds its expression in non-objectivity. His thinking is abstract — like writing or mathematics — and his works always contain glyph-like symbols: formulas that attempt to calculate and grasp the cosmos, only to dissolve into the image space as mysteriously as infinity itself.
presented works by Emil Toman
Eduardo Vega de Seoane does not seek freedom — he lives it. He experiences it fully in the act of painting. Inspired and animated, he gives himself over to the sounds of jazz, spontaneously sketching his emotional response to the music onto the canvas. He paints music. Alongside harmonious colors, abstract signs continually emerge, alternating and merging with the fields of color. It is a dance among clouds, a joyful drift through weightlessness.
presented works by Eduardo Vega de Seoane
Irene Wölfl’s collages — assembled from what has been left behind — inspire new inner adventures. She works exclusively with found materials: fragments of memory from past relationships, passions, longings, or simply discarded packaging and book pages. From this trove of forgotten stories, dramas, and joys, she carefully selects fragments and condenses them into small, expressive works with a Dadaist feel — new narratives. In doing so, she gives the overlooked and forgotten a renewed presence: fresh, lasting nourishment for sensitive souls.
presented works by Irene Wölfl
Leo Zogmayer’s word images are the outcome of an intensive thought process — the distilled result of a deep philosophical engagement with a common term or familiar phrase. Every word carries a history. Zogmayer traces its origin and evolution to uncover its deeper meaning. Though his works consist of only a single word or expression, they encapsulate the essence of its transformation. They become visual symbols — concentrated forms of thought.
presented works by Leo Zogmayer
Opening words by Sabine Kienzer, 17/06/25
Willam-Josh Beck makes music with brush and ink on paper. His calligraphic compositions visualize resonance — capturing sound through sweeping strokes. He aims to transcribe what is heard, not what is seen. His auditory images modulate space and emptiness, extract the music of his surroundings, and condense acoustic environments into swinging black-and-white glyphs. Beck lives and works in an untouched landscape between sea and forest. His creative process is in harmony with this ecosystem. The materials he uses — water, soot ink, charcoal, softwood or mulberry paper — embody the four elements that form both the physical and conceptual foundation of his work.
presented works by William-Josh Beck
Andrea Pernegr’s diary-like visual stories reflect mundane moments of everyday life, charged with emotions that are personally meaningful. Representational elements appear only as symbolic metaphors. Texts, letters, and even abstract symbols serve merely as visual components that underline her mood or her relationship to the creation of the image.
She transforms the abstraction of tangible feelings — or her feelings toward certain objects — into symbols of a day well lived. Seemingly carefree, and untroubled by artistic styles or theories, she captures what feels important in that very moment. Andrea Pernegr follows only her inner impulse, driven by an unwavering passion in the act of painting.
presented works by Andrea Pernegr
Script-based imagery was a lifelong theme for Drago Prelog, occupying him for over 70 years — a span he counts from his earliest attempts at age three. Even then, it was not the content of text that fascinated him, but its form. The written image left a lasting impression — he imitated it, reformulated it by lining up strokes in sequence, like written lines.
Later, as a freelance artist, he rewrote the Bible and the Quran in his own distinctive script. At the academy, students even asked to be taught in writing. This exhibition presents a small, refined selection of his work.
presented works by Drago Prelog
Dissolution and Reordering is the title Veronika Rodenberg gives her image cycle. Following the principles of Concrete Art, she begins with the universal form of the square, dividing it diagonally — eight times. The arrangement of the resulting, ever-smaller triangles made of lines and surfaces is revealed solely through the written number assigned to each. The alphabet — a symbol of pure human intellect — guides the structure and the logic behind the visual composition. A simple algorithm with infinite potential becomes a metaphor for the diversity of life, for becoming and fading away.
presented works by Veronika Rodenberg
The free spirit Emil Toman found his painterly freedom as a logical progression into Informalism. Within this movement, he felt connected to the universe itself. This universe — the immense aesthetic of infinite chaos — became both his imaginary motif and his source of fascination. The idea of the unimaginable finds its expression in non-objectivity. His thinking is abstract — like writing or mathematics — and his works always contain glyph-like symbols: formulas that attempt to calculate and grasp the cosmos, only to dissolve into the image space as mysteriously as infinity itself.
presented works by Emil Toman
Eduardo Vega de Seoane does not seek freedom — he lives it. He experiences it fully in the act of painting. Inspired and animated, he gives himself over to the sounds of jazz, spontaneously sketching his emotional response to the music onto the canvas. He paints music. Alongside harmonious colors, abstract signs continually emerge, alternating and merging with the fields of color. It is a dance among clouds, a joyful drift through weightlessness.
presented works by Eduardo Vega de Seoane
Irene Wölfl’s collages — assembled from what has been left behind — inspire new inner adventures. She works exclusively with found materials: fragments of memory from past relationships, passions, longings, or simply discarded packaging and book pages. From this trove of forgotten stories, dramas, and joys, she carefully selects fragments and condenses them into small, expressive works with a Dadaist feel — new narratives. In doing so, she gives the overlooked and forgotten a renewed presence: fresh, lasting nourishment for sensitive souls.
presented works by Irene Wölfl
Leo Zogmayer’s word images are the outcome of an intensive thought process — the distilled result of a deep philosophical engagement with a common term or familiar phrase. Every word carries a history. Zogmayer traces its origin and evolution to uncover its deeper meaning. Though his works consist of only a single word or expression, they encapsulate the essence of its transformation. They become visual symbols — concentrated forms of thought.
presented works by Leo Zogmayer
Opening words by Sabine Kienzer, 17/06/25