one of the best arguments to change abstract work in painting to a so-called “realistic” way ever announced by a professional painter I found in the catalogue of the exhibition Lebendversuch / Experimentation in Vivo by artist Jonas Burgert from Berlin at the Kunsthalle Krems, Austria: “ninety percent of the work consists in avoiding painting figuratively. but I want to use ninety percent of the work offensively, not defensively. and so I said to myself: content has to return. but the quality of abstract painting, the timeless validity, has to be maintained.”
ჯონას ბურგერტ - detail of:
Jonas Burgert Affenfalle / Monkey Trap oil on canvas 2010, 180 x 600 cm
details of:
Jonas Burgert Suchtpuls / craving pulse oil on canvas, 2011 especially created for the Kunsthalle Krems
“I want to depict this naïve hope human beings have. how we are constantly on a quest for something, for a well, & ultimately poison ourselves.”
Jonas Burgert
detail of:
Jonas Burgert Schergen / Henchmen oil on canvas 2007
Jonas Burgert Streiter / Fighter individually painted bronze 2009
“Everything´s cool, everything´s easygoing, but no one has to reveal anything. no one has to be honest.” (more: Jonas Burgert)
Jonas Burgert Scheuche / Scarecrow oil on canvas 2010, 220 x 200 cm
Jonas Burgert Nachttrick / Night Trick oil on canvas 2010, 120 x 100 cm
detail:
JONAS BURGERT * LEBENDVERSUCH
Franz-Zeller Platz 3
3500 Krems
Öffnungszeiten:
täglich / open daily 10.00 bis / to 18.00 h
artist Elke Mischling with her favorit
Elke Mischling Isa & Etelka acrylic on canvas 2011, especially painted for a reading by Magda Szabó at the Literaturhaus Mattersburg: The Elements (more about in German HERE)
