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MARKUS KRÖN - SINNLOSE LANDSCHAFTEN

The overall award-winning exhibition with all the award-winning works was followed by Markus Krön's first solo exhibition in the ARTLOUNGE in the STRABAG HAUS.
The atmospheric sections of the Austrian landscape, the reinterpretation of home and nature are themes of the painting by the Salzburg native. Quirky details draw attention to the often unconsciously perceived, poetic effect of our environment. Motorways, new buildings, female nudes testify in a humorous and ironic way of the discrepancy between cool distance and emotion. Barbara Baum, Strabag Art Forum
Simple landscapes that tell of a banal everyday occurrence, looks that are generally quickly forgotten. Captured in pictures, however, they reveal a reality to us, cause an echo in our memories that is mostly beyond the simply namable ...

Krön is not interested in deconstructing a traditional home idyll. It is not about the accusation of the destruction of nature in the sense of a criticism of modernization. Krön creates a very unique and peculiar form of brittle familiarity into which an almost mythical longing is ultimately woven.
The sometimes ironic - distant-looking exaggeration is also evident in the naked beings known as "nymphs", which appear in the pictures with an aesthetic surprise effect. From an art-historical point of view, these nature goddesses typically stand for the connection between man and nature, fertility and the common equation of woman with originality in contrast to culture. Many of the women shown are heavily pregnant, which could give additional support to the previous statements, but, in contrast to their models crouching modestly between the bushes or happily dancing in a dance, they are very prominent female figures from this world, half-beings, from the edge of civilization, who Entering the idylls indifferently or distantly between apartment blocks, under road bridges or on motorways.
Krön has found its own, modern form of idyll in which temporality, history and change are no longer hidden.
Mechthild Widrich in the catalog: Markus Krön “Fear and Terror of the Alpine Foreland”, painting 1999-2001

How our living environment and the possibilities of your perception have changed since the end of the 19th century, Krön does justice to a complex system of perception traps that is subtly built into the pictures ...
Some of the nymph-like creatures have the subtle pallor on their tanned skin that a bikini leaves behind when sunbathing. In such details, an attentive observer recognizes the two poles between which Krön oscillates in his painterly persuasion: It is the play between symbolistic seduction and realistic credibility that distinguishes this painting and makes it efficient in its effect. Krön is playing increasingly confidently on the keyboard of longings, which - mind you - are also his own.
Lucas Horvath, artist

MARKUS KRÖN

1970 born in Salzburg
1989-1994 studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
1991 extended stay in China
Lives and works in Vienna

Solo exhibitions

1999  
Furcht und Schrecken des Alpenvorlandes, Galerie Alte Schmiede

2001 
Lass jubelnd dich grüßen - Heimatbilder,Galerie der Stadt Salzburg und 
Galerie unart, Villach

2003  
Die letzten Baugründe – eine Apotheose Oberösterreichs, Galerie Heike
Curtze, Wien

2004  
Neue Idyllen; Galerie Heike Curtze und Management Club 


Group exhibitions

2000  
Einkochen und Anbraten, eine Essens-Kunst-Performence, wienstation

2002   
Ausstellung zum Faistauer Preis 2002, Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg
Bilder aus der Stadt, Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, Shenyang, VR China  
Der Blick auf Wien – Topografie und Wahrnehmung, Museum auf Abruf,
Prag und Wien

2004  
sweet home Einzelausstellung in der Galerie Alcratras, Hallein
Blickwechsel, Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten

 
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