Nikolaus KORAB and Ulrich Plieschnig
Duration of exhibition: Part - I 24. June - 31. July 2020 | Part - II 9. until 26. September 2020
Opening speech and presentation of N. Korab's illustrated photgraphy book "NACHTs": Hartwig Knack (art historian / curator )
At that exhibition "Color - Light" we present two artists who - as different as they are in technique and style - both deal intensively with space and time in their art and thus develop a surprising common ground.
Why "Color and Light" ?
The most important stylistic devices of the visual plane are light and color. Thus, the creatively developed and a skillfully used light direction and color design have an impact on the perception of the situations of the images on our emotions and help both media to a common denominator of expression. ...
Ulrich Plieschnig:
He himself titles the new series of exhibited works with.
"Time travel in the picture - landscape in me".and continues >
Time irreversibly describes a sequence of life experiences that manifest themselves layer by layer on the picture's background. The transitions of the emerging color landscapes are velvet flowing or clearly demarcated, only at a single point in each case the present is readable. Internalized, real landscapes form themselves into new, real pictorial compositions, time as the event carrier gives the direction and the order of the change.
[ © Günther Oberhollenzer ]Time irreversibly describes a sequence of life experiences that manifest themselves layer by layer on the picture's background. The transitions of the emerging color landscapes are velvet flowing or clearly demarcated, only at a single point in each case the present is readable. Internalized, real landscapes form themselves into new, real pictorial compositions, time as the event carrier gives the direction and the order of the change.
Nikolaus Korab:
Also deals in his work with the effect of light and forms. He developed and pursued for this purpose over the years with a lot of intuition, experimentation and precision in several series of works next to each other.
"Korab works with the concept of light reduction, at the transitions from dark gray tones to pure black, the motif is abstracted, the limits of the recognizable are explored. "Photography depends on visible objects" Korab emphasizes, at the same time he takes the ancient Greek meaning (painting, drawing with light) at its word. Light and dark serve the artist on a pictorial level like painting utensils to obscure objects, eliminate narrative, sharpen contrasts, transfer space to surface."
[ © Günther Oberhollenzer ]
