Birgit Pleschberger Birgit Pleschberger

OPENING
Thursday, 24.01.2008. 6.30 pm

WELCOME
Barbara Baum, STRABAG Kunstforum

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Verena Kaspar, Kunstraum Niederösterreich

Birgit Pleschberger shows in her exhibition with the title “welcome to paradise” a series of large-format drawings from the series “Paradies” composed of several individual parts to act. On the one hand, the figures shown clearly have human traits, but their liveliness is called into question by the fact that they are hanging on threads like marionettes and their bodies are composed of individual doll members.
The mood that the pictures convey fluctuates. Often cheerful playfulness and almost paradisiacal carelessness seem to predominate, then again a gloomy eeriness pushes itself into the foreground and forces the scenes almost into the grotesque. The viewer is consciously torn between more or less diffuse feelings and the question arises whether the depicted scenes can really represent paradise - as implied in the title - or whether a form of paradise is even possible.

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Photos: STRABAG ART