"Don't teach, don't learn - grow from your own roots."
Viennese Kinetism emerged in the 1920s at the Vienna School of Applied Arts (today's University of Applied Arts) and is considered an Austrian contribution to the international abstract, futurist and constructivist trends in art at the time. The exhibition "Dynamism! Cubism | Futurism | Kinetism" at the Lower Belvedere (2011) and the book "Viennese Kinetism. Eine bewegte Moderne" document this art movement. The central theme in Čižek's teaching was the representation of movement, kinetism (Greek kinesis = movement).
The Austrian painter and graphic artist Traxler-Pilgram develops her very personal language of forms from kinetism and virtuously creates her "moving figures". Ambiguities are deliberately staged. Figures are perceived by the viewer in motion as well as "moved". The play between activity and passivity develops into a tense dialogue. Figures of speech become the essential transporter of messages, accompany the black-and-white painting on an equal footing, invert inner images to the outside and underline them. These processes are accompanied by dialogues between conscious and unconscious, mind and feeling, word and image.
What is the human being in confrontation with himself, society and his environment? Traxler-Pilgram devotes herself to this question as an artist, philosopher, educator, historian and also as a private person. In doing so, she creates her very personal holistic, interdisciplinary approach. She plays with words and all senses, imagines many things, explores possibilities and variations, sorts and weights thoughts, networks emotions - movement comes into play.
The tension-laden scope for interpretation opens up new perspectives. Traxler-Pilgram juggles with different titles, directs the associations in different directions, lets the moving figures always "run on". Sometimes they "gallop", jump on double tracks and the unconscious, the forbidden, the repressed or on classical role models. The humor always makes them socially acceptable.
Sagerly utopian! Human experience has no expiration date! Traxler-Pilgram follows psychologist C. G. Jung's view that they are anchored in the depths of a collective unconscious. Now and then they break loose and appear in the form of archetypes in myths, fairy tales, dreams and art. They wander from generation to generation, from person to person. They want to wake up and look from the past to the future. The moving figures as a sustainable element of our perception.
CV: Traxler-Pilgram was born in 1966 in Villach, 1986-1993 studied psychology, philosophy and history in Vienna, numerous courses in painting and graphics with different academic painters, teaching since 1995 in Vienna, lives and works in Maria Anzbach and in her studio in Ollersbach.
Exhibitions and fairs
Gallery M, Kirchstetten
Kunstrad Gallery - le-art, Langenzersdorf
Style Gallery, Vienna
Galerie Friedl, Vienna
ART Salzburg
BURN-IN Gallery, Vienna