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MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART
Autumn 2024

 

Galerie Kovacek & Zetter
September 16 to October 30, 2024
Stallburggasse 2, 1010 Wien, Tel.: +43/1/5128636

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MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART
Autumn 2024

 

Galerie Kovacek & Zetter
September 16 to October 30, 2024
Stallburggasse 2, 1010 Wien, Tel.: +43/1/5128636

Website

MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART
Autumn 2024

September 16th to October 30th, 2024

We are kicking off an eventful autumn season with a top-tier Contemporary & Modern Art exhibition, during which we will celebrate our 25th anniversary. Over the course of two and a half decades, we have hosted nearly 150 exhibitions, including 60 solo shows. Additionally, we have published more than 120 catalogues. Alongside this exhibition, we will showcase an outstanding Fine Art presentation in the second half of October. In November, the opening of another location in the 1st district, the Galerie Kovacek & Zetter – Plankengasse, will mark another highlight of the season.

The cover image of the extensive catalogue hints at a central theme of the Contemporary & Modern Art exhibition. Gottfried Helnwein’s “Crimson Mouse” symbolizes the familiar that is suddenly perceived as strange and threatening, a form of alienation also present in the artist’s depictions of children. We are particularly proud to present, alongside the large painting “Disasters of War” from 2012 – which has been featured in several exhibitions, most recently in Gmunden during the Salzkammergut Festival Weeks – the first works from The Child Series, created in 1991, which remain crucial to the artist’s oeuvre.

In parallel with the major retrospective at the Albertina in Vienna, we are showcasing several sculptures by Erwin Wurm, including a major piece from his “Box Man” series. The polished aluminum cast “Big Coat,” standing over two meters tall, is accompanied by the rare “Fat Car (Convertible)” in pink, as well as smaller works in glass and plaster. Another highlight in the sculptural realm is an impressive, museum-quality stainless steel work titled “Curve” by Tony Cragg. Alfred Haberpointner explores questions of proportion, weight, and volume in his bronze works titled “Gewichtung”.

In addition to Maria Lassnig’s oil painting “Gefallenes Mädchen”, we are presenting significant works by other female artists, such as Xenia Hausner’s “Indigo (West)” in oil on aluminum, Kiki Kogelnik’s rare glass head “Octopus” from the “Venetian Heads II” series, and recent works by Gabi Trinkaus, including a large nocturnal landscape. New to the program is the German painter Sabine Liebchen, whose portraits of women contrast the movements of her protagonists, always shown from the back, with the monochrome emptiness of the background.

The “Gruppe St. Stephan” is fully represented with Arnulf Rainer, Markus Prachensky, Josef Mikl, and Wolfgang Hollegha. Combined with works by Max Weiler, Hermann Nitsch, Gunter Damisch, and Hubert Scheibl, the exhibition offers a comprehensive overview of Austrian painting from the second half of the 20th century and into the 21st century. The Phantastischen Realisten are represented by Arik Brauer and Anton Lehmden. In their own distinctive ways, Hans Bischoffshausen and Eduard Angeli bring silence and a meditative quality to the forefront of their works.

This high-caliber program of Austrian art is accompanied by international positions. The works from Jürgen Paas’ Jukebox series impress with their minimalist, reduced forms, reminiscent of Minimal Art. Jono Dry and Idowu Oluwaseun focus on figurative imagery, each addressing the human condition and identities in a globalized world in their own unique ways.

A comprehensive, academically researched catalogue will be published to accompany the exhibition.

PDF Catalogue

 

 

MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART
Autumn 2024

September 16th to October 30th, 2024

We are kicking off an eventful autumn season with a top-tier Contemporary & Modern Art exhibition, during which we will celebrate our 25th anniversary. Over the course of two and a half decades, we have hosted nearly 150 exhibitions, including 60 solo shows. Additionally, we have published more than 120 catalogues. Alongside this exhibition, we will showcase an outstanding Fine Art presentation in the second half of October. In November, the opening of another location in the 1st district, the Galerie Kovacek & Zetter – Plankengasse, will mark another highlight of the season.

The cover image of the extensive catalogue hints at a central theme of the Contemporary & Modern Art exhibition. Gottfried Helnwein’s “Crimson Mouse” symbolizes the familiar that is suddenly perceived as strange and threatening, a form of alienation also present in the artist’s depictions of children. We are particularly proud to present, alongside the large painting “Disasters of War” from 2012 – which has been featured in several exhibitions, most recently in Gmunden during the Salzkammergut Festival Weeks – the first works from The Child Series, created in 1991, which remain crucial to the artist’s oeuvre.

In parallel with the major retrospective at the Albertina in Vienna, we are showcasing several sculptures by Erwin Wurm, including a major piece from his “Box Man” series. The polished aluminum cast “Big Coat,” standing over two meters tall, is accompanied by the rare “Fat Car (Convertible)” in pink, as well as smaller works in glass and plaster. Another highlight in the sculptural realm is an impressive, museum-quality stainless steel work titled “Curve” by Tony Cragg. Alfred Haberpointner explores questions of proportion, weight, and volume in his bronze works titled “Gewichtung”.

In addition to Maria Lassnig’s oil painting “Gefallenes Mädchen”, we are presenting significant works by other female artists, such as Xenia Hausner’s “Indigo (West)” in oil on aluminum, Kiki Kogelnik’s rare glass head “Octopus” from the “Venetian Heads II” series, and recent works by Gabi Trinkaus, including a large nocturnal landscape. New to the program is the German painter Sabine Liebchen, whose portraits of women contrast the movements of her protagonists, always shown from the back, with the monochrome emptiness of the background.

The “Gruppe St. Stephan” is fully represented with Arnulf Rainer, Markus Prachensky, Josef Mikl, and Wolfgang Hollegha. Combined with works by Max Weiler, Hermann Nitsch, Gunter Damisch, and Hubert Scheibl, the exhibition offers a comprehensive overview of Austrian painting from the second half of the 20th century and into the 21st century. The Phantastischen Realisten are represented by Arik Brauer and Anton Lehmden. In their own distinctive ways, Hans Bischoffshausen and Eduard Angeli bring silence and a meditative quality to the forefront of their works.

This high-caliber program of Austrian art is accompanied by international positions. The works from Jürgen Paas’ Jukebox series impress with their minimalist, reduced forms, reminiscent of Minimal Art. Jono Dry and Idowu Oluwaseun focus on figurative imagery, each addressing the human condition and identities in a globalized world in their own unique ways.

A comprehensive, academically researched catalogue will be published to accompany the exhibition.

PDF Catalogue

 

 

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