We are very happy to announce the fair participation of the gallery twenty-six in the WIKAM spring fair from March 2nd to March 10th 2024, which will take place at Palais Ferstel.
Especially for the occasion, we are going to provide you with the unique opportunity to experience an utterly impressive selection of the captivating works of art by Alice Ella, Christian Bazant-Hegemark, Beáta Hechtová, Wolfgang Uranitsch and Robert W. Sackl-Kahr Sagostin delivering what its first impression promises:
These works of art evade provocatively toying with any kind of cumbersome, perfunctory subversion – on the contrary, they are captivating due to their powerful presence, their vigorous, vivid energy beyond the pictorial space.
Alice Ella will also be showing watercolours alongside her acrylic paintings. Her latest works of art captivate due to and excel through their motivic immediacy, with a considerable amount of their appeal lying in their typical aesthetics, the Alice-Ella- signature style:
vigorous coloring, rich in contrast, highly stylized silhouettes, effusive postures, iconic attributes, the memorable stylistic idiom somewhere between art deco, pop art and instagram-aesthetics, the recurring two central motifs hat and mouth.
By dint of their interplay and synergy the depicted faces are turned into ciphers – enigmatic, utterly complex, highly charged symbols.
Christian Bazant-Hegemark will be presenting “Kindness of Strangers“ a series of drawings, produced in 2018, after the artist finished his second series of psychotherapy sessions. The drawings have the wide-ranging, meandering ambiguities which are also uniquely known to those trying to interpret dreams, Freudian slips or other co-conscious actions. These works aim to emulate rather than depict such subconscious plots. Bazant-Hegemark has continuously been suggesting psychoanalytical, and thus highly individualized, readings of hisworks.
With paintings being inherently post- and preverbal, they seemed a perfect medium for a series on ambiguities and personal interpretations.
Beáta Hechtová, whose painterly and graphic work has already been shown in numerous exhibitions, creates astonishing pictorial worlds that breathe the spirit of surrealism: the image composition, the individual pictorial motifs and the coloring are riveting, thus catching the eye of the beholder, commanding attention, thereby virtually “distracting“, an effect which is meant to, literally, illustrate and clarify the mechanisms, limitations and constraints our perception apparatus – and, associated therewith – the substance of the human awareness, the content of consciousness – is subject to, in our living environments that are essentially shaped by popular art movements, ubiquitous cultural trends and universal icons, which, yet, pass largely unnoticed.
The term “metal spray art“ has been coined by Wolfgang Uranitsch himself, describing his art.“I consider it to be the ideal medium when it comes to realistic representation of pictorial motifs, lending them a certain depth.“ as he himself stated. The actual stylistic kinship of Uranitsch‘s unique way of combining screen printing and traditional painting – utilising acrylic spray varnish – on iron to the graffiti genre of stencils is just as remarkable. Uranitsch generates his broad spectrum of pictorial motifs from the ubiquitous flood of images that we are constantly exposed to; time and time again it is the work of Andy Warhol that inspires him, stimulating an utterly intense kind of artistic dialogue in the creative field of tension between paying tribute to and working through the pop art idol‘s legacy on a symbolic level, thereby following a well established tradition within appropriation art.
Robert W. Sackl-Kahr Sagostin is probably one of the most colorful personalities representing contemporary avant-garde in Central Europe. Born in Graz in 1960, the artist, who prefers a life of commuting between Vienna, Trieste and southwestern France, has been creating an oeuvre that encompasses almost all fields of the visual arts: photography, graphics, illustration, painting, industrial design, sculpture and stage design. We will be focussing on and showcasing some photographic works.
Experience and enjoy the mesmerising momentum of amazement and pleasurable, delightful challenges by immersing yourself in Alice Ella‘s, Christian Bazant-Hegemark‘s, Beáta Hechtová‘s, Wolfgang Uranitsch‘s and Robert W. Sackl-Kahr Sagostin‘s, works of art and the stunning visual worlds which they create!
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