ART & SCULPTURES
INTERVIEW > ADRIENNE EGGER
Adrienne Egger is an American artist based in Austria whose award-winning paintings have garnered international recognition . Egger exhibits regularly in solo and group shows , including Venice , London , and Vienna and her work can be found in corporate and private collections around the world . Though working primarily with oils , Egger has recently begun incorporating patinas , rust , metal leaves , resins and lighting into her art .
What does art mean to you ?
Art must move me . I want to see something original , created with knowledge and expertise of workmanship . I want to see an ease of execution , knowing that the beauty lies in how perfectly a skill has been honed to have become natural and seemingly effortless . At the same time , I want to see a daringness to break the rules and freedom to express one ’ s self in new ways . Most of all , though , I want to see and feel beauty . I think that beauty is extremely powerful . It is the physical manifestation of love and good and hope and peace and joy and all that is right in the world . For me , it is the exact point in which heaven touches the Earth . Although an exact measure of beauty is subjective and varies between cultures and subcultures , I have never heard anyone ever say they are bored of the 1000th glorious sunset they ’ ve seen , who doesn ’ t light up in response to a laughing baby or is not touched by an elderly couple , tenderly dancing in the moonlight . These experiences and images touch and move us — I may not want to hang them on my wall , but art for me needs to tap into this universal stream of consciousness and manifest as something that will make the world — be that the room in which it hangs and the people who live with it — a better place . Otherwise , I am bored by it .
104 The Art of Luxury Issue 48 2021