Exhibitions
Augkontakt
May 13 – Jun 22, 2011
May 13 – Jun 22, 2011
Alois Köchl
OPENING
Thursday, May 12, 2011, 6:30 p.m.
WELCOME
Wilhelm Weiss, Director STRABAG Art Forum
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Prof. Peter Baum, founding director of the Lentos Art Museum, Linz
New works by the artist Alois Köchl (born 1951 in Klagenfurt, lives in the Drautal) will be presented in a large overview exhibition. The spectacular “basic design of a ceiling” for the Ossiach Abbey in Carinthia is designed as a floating, modern room image. New "pictorial sketches from Osaka", inspired by Köchl's stay in Japan in 2011, with their architectural reference form the thematic framework of the exhibition. Exemplary works from the last few years complete the retrospective, which is shown for the first time in Vienna.
Alois Köchl's painting and drawing are a focus of the Strabag Artcollection, which comprises 1900 works: the drawing with its hatching, lines, and scratches as a compressed thought process flows into the large dimension of the abstract, expressive, painterly compositions.
Photos: STRABAG ART
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