Robert Muntean Robert Muntean

OPENING
Thursday, 18.10.2007, 6.30 pm

WELCOME
Barbara Baum, STRABAG Kunstforum

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Mag. Silvie Aigner, Art historian

The solo exhibition of the winner of the Strabag Art Award 2007, Robert Muntean, shows from October mainly new works created in his studio in Leipzig as well as older works that document the development of the artist from Styria.
Robert Muntean, born in Leoben in 1982, first studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Hubert Schmalix, and later at the University of Graphics and Book Art in Leipzig. Today he lives and works in Leipzig, which has already replaced Berlin as the center of new art development. "Sub rosa" was the title of the work that was awarded at the Artaward 2007 ("In Confidential, In Secret"). The artist leads us into the quiet intimacy of the pictures, whose subtle painting shows us everyday scenes. People who are not represented by gestures and posture in the sense of a representative portrait, but reflect their spiritual content. The tradition of Austrian painting, if we think of Schiele or Gerstl, is continued here in unpretentious, expressive realism. Here the painting unfolds its abstract beauty, unobtrusive, almost casually, but quite haunting.

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Photos: STRABAG ART