Anselm Glück Anselm Glück

OPENING
Thursday 07.10.1010, 6:30 p.m

WELCOME
Hans Peter Haselsteiner, CEO STRABAG SE

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Prof. Peter Baum, Founding director of the Lentos Art Museum, Linz

Anselm Glück invents the world with large and small brushstrokes, creates a human universe with which he accomplishes and demonstrates his discovery of the world. And because his latest work is also very poetic, he continues to develop a poetic parallel universe of guards and sentences which, disguised as a picture title, open up a further, integrative opportunity for the viewer to initiate.
Perhaps it is appropriate to speak of a masquerade, of a world theater, where we viewers can penetrate the artist's “stage sets” through the play of looks. The scenery of colors, lines, surfaces and figurative head elements opens up a magical range of yearning, joy, happiness, but also melancholy, pain and sadness. The faces that look at and see us are distant echoes from soul spaces of loneliness and at the same time also world abundance, from despair and world urge, they are "sensations, wounds, pain-absorbing containers", as Kristian Sotriffer once aptly put it in an earlier catalog.
Perhaps we should see these heads and faces less as something that represents itself than as something that wants to absorb us as viewers. Anselm Glück's pictures are not just showrooms, but also visually immaterial rooms, places where you can take pictures; precisely because he makes the picture formats as large as possible, as if he wanted to cover reality for us so that we can uncover other realities (within us). 
CarI Aigner

Photos: STRABAG ART