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Born in 1954 in the rural Salzkammergut region of Upper Austria. Studied medicine in Vienna. Lives and works in Vienna and Mondsee. 25 years of work in the field of experimental and abstract painting. In addition to striving for a high standard of aesthetic quality in his paintings and objects, the artist’s work focuses on the possibility of communicating content via a visual language that goes beyond the merely representational. In this context, the crucial point is the question of how intellectual “understanding“ can be brought about, apart from our emotional “liking“ for a painting, beyond a system of semiotics (study of the meaning of signs) equally recognized and respected by artist and observer. To embody this high-tension interaction of emotional excitement and the intellectual challenge a work of art should provoke, the artist uses signs and pictogramms whose visual language has been reduced to an absolute minimum, yet their simple forms convey highly complex content-related information that can open doors to new worlds for observers hungry for the unknown. „...the time for the artist’s work and the observer
to relate to each other is very short – just one moment.
This one moment decides whether a painting has begun a life of
its own inside the observer’s mind, has touched him (or
her), caught his attention, moved him in some way. No other encounter
with art, no matter whether we are dealing with literature, music,
theatre, even sculpture and architecture, harbours a moment of
perception of such intensity and concentration as that which marks
our confrontation with painting. The image is everything –
a bit of canvas covered with colour pigments – this is what
we see, no more, no less. The title of the painting, the background
story are something else, as secondary for perception as the artist
behind the work“ .
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