SALZBURG CITY
Kubin, Wilhelm Thöny, Fritz von Herzmanowsky- Orlando, Paul Flora( the gallery administers and represents the estate), Kurt Moldovan, Kurt Absolon, and more) has conceded none of its allure or quality, and has significantly increased in quantity. Museum-quality folios from diverse collections can be seen and purchased. The gallery‘ s web activities have also enjoyed world-wide success, and at the online shops of www. galerie-seywald. at, www. paulflora. com, www. paulfloramuseum. org, and www. art4public. com, you will always find something new and surprising.
The summer is dedicated to the shooting star of the local painting scene, Margit J. Füreder. Füreder has already successfully exhibited her work twice at the Seywald and took the decisive leap 2 years ago to the USA, where she has also found success.
Her works are of a stylish quality, without any hint of being old-fashioned; it is“ young painting” in the best sense. Both the themes and style of her painting are new and exciting, the artistic accents unmistakable: large-format figure compositions, in which the background and foreground blur, any hint of stasis dissolved into a state of uncertainty.
Picture: Margit Füreder, photo: Seywald
From the Riedenburg area of the city, where the Seywald is located, we now turn to the Fotohof in Lehen.
Galerie Fotohof
For more than 30 years, the Fotohof in Salzburg has provided a wide selection for those interested in photography. Along with around 7 annual exhibits at the Fotohof gallery, there are also always several traveling exhibitions on tour. In the past, almost all important Austrian photographers of the present were presented alongside well-known international artists. The publication of books and catalogues by Austrian and international photographers lead to establishment of the publishing house Fotohof edition, which has published more than 170 books up to now. In addition, portfolios are produced for many of the exhibited artists. These photo portfolios consist of signed and numbered original prints, which are published in limited editions. The publicly accessible Fotohof library includes more than 10,000 book titles, catalogues, and magazines and is continuously being expanded with new editions. It is one of the most extensive libraries for photography in Austria post 1945. You can check-out international and Austrian photographic art from the Fotohof artothek. The basis of the artothek is works from the Fotohof edition program, which the team at the Fotohof has produced with numerous renowned artists. Exhibits 2013: Annelies Oberdanner / Ingeborg Strobl 24.5.- 13.7.; „ High dose. Research into the photography of today.“ 19.7-7.9.; Koos Breukel 13.9.-11.11; Markus Krottendorfer 15.11.-18.1. www. fotohof. at
Picture: Fotohof
GALLERIES OF THE CITY OF SALZBURG- DWARF GARDEN- CITY HALL GALLERY
The galleries of the city of Salzburg offer a diverse program this summer: until July 6 in the Lehen city gallery under the title „ The Breath of the Wind“, you can view paintings, films, and sculptures by Karin Pliem, Gertrud Fischbacher, Hermann Kremsmayer, and Thomas Bretl. It focuses on phenomena of transience, such as the unpredictable play of cloud and shadow. It continues with an hommage to two great, deceased Salzburg painters. From July 12 to August 31, a selection of paintings recall Walter Brendel and Herbert Stejskal. Josef Schwaiger sets contemporary accents in his memorial exhibition. „ Be my guest“ is then the motto when guest artists show their works in Salzburg.
Ana Maria Dias- 60 x 80 cm
Opening times: Tue, Thu, Wed 1-7 pm, Sat 11 am- 3pm. From June 14 to July 11, contemporary Brazilian artists share a treasure trove of paintings by naive painters in the Dwarf Garden pavilion- a celebration of an exuberant love for life. This is accompanied by a festival for dog lovers. Monika Steinitz parades her mutts in artistic form( starting August 9). Heiner Kufner shows his new works at the city hall gallery in August.
On the other side of the Salzach, in the Right Old Town, the Karrer couple run their
Altstadtgalerie Weihergut in Linzergasse
COBRA & CORNEILLE, the COBRA cycle 1948 is the broad theme of the Altstadtgalerie Weihergut from July 20 to September 28. The development of abstract painting after WWII lead to artistic expression, which in the end resulted in „ informal“ painting and American“ action painting”. Asgar Jorn said at that time: „ Intelligence and creative thinking ignite when encountering the unknown, the accidental, the random, and the impossible.“ This is the basic philosophy of the artistically and historically important group of artists known as COBRA, founded by Danish, Belgium, and Dutch artists and lasting until 1951. Afterwards, it disbanded like all other artist groups that came before and after, when strong individualists merge and then go their separate ways. COBRA is made up of the first letters of each country‘ s capital: Copenhagen-Brussels-Amsterdam. Karel Appel in Holland, Pierre Alechinsky in Belgium, Asgar Jorn in Denmark, and finally Liège-born CORNEILLE( 4.7.1922- 5.9.2010) were the protagonists, and Paris was the center of their activities. They distanced themselves from all contemporary tendencies with the justification that all were divided and that” goal and medium, form and content” were going in different directions. In contrast, according to CORNEILLE: „ the COBRA seed is born of fire“ and „ imagination... is the medium to perceive reality. The sign of imagination is the free flow of thoughts, and its embodiment in nature is the bird. The bird is the quintessential portrayal of movement, and what I‘ m searching for is movement, not to a destination, but solely out of joy.“ CORNEILLE always preserved the balance between expression and form, sketching and painting, sensuality and control. What distinguished his artistic thought and his artistic results was his originality and his independence. After the spontaneous creations of his early years and abstracted landscapes, the end of the 1960s brought brightly colored, narrative figurations full of exoticism and color, which continued until the end f his life. The tropics, the Mediterranean, South America and, above all, the African sun and a world of color left strong artistic impressions in his work. His cosmic colors of happiness and liberation make us forget the dull grayness of daily life.