Exhibitions
GHOST TOWN
Jul 2 – Sep 4, 2008
Jul 2 – Sep 4, 2008
Felix Malnig
OPENING
Tuesday, 01.07.2008, 6.30 pm
WELCOME
Barbara Baum, STRABAG Kunstforum
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Elisabeth Fritz, Kunsthistorikerin
Felix Malnig shows in his pictures the social and cultural effects of architectural projects, urban planning and design in public spaces as they are typical for large international cities. Planned as symbols and monuments that stand for urban life, modernity and economic progress, the buildings and sculptures depicted by Malnig turn out to be anonymous shells and monuments of stagnation and desolation. Felix Malnig literally dissolves the pretense of dynamism, power and upswing through monuments in public urban space through the means of his painting. He works in mixed media with silver acrylic paint and colored spray paint on canvas. The silver color scheme can stand for stainless steel as well as for the threatening smog mass of the gray city reality or the shining shine of an architectural symbol that only shines on the surface.
Elisabeth Fritz, curator, art historian
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