Nature must be felt.
Alexander von Humboldt
In December 2022, Vienna's BURN-IN Gallery invites visitors to a mysterious expedition into the realm of mystical, almost sacred natural spaces by painter and textile object artist Susanne Guzei-Taschner.
In the exhibition Strings of Nature & Ritual Spaces, the artist presents independent imaginary landscapes and ritual spaces in which the magical and the dream collide. In doing so, Guzei-Taschner develops an enormously independent pictorial composition in which she places the ecological community of man and nature at the center of her artistic work. The skilful staging of the harmonious triad of body, soul and spirit releases energies that subtly anchor themselves in the viewer's subconscious. These imaginary vibrations, energy flows, codes and signs of nature, the Strings of Nature, open up ritual spaces, encode and decode secret strings of signs, weave together the threads of nature and create delicate yet powerful strands for any life.
BURN-IN is showing 24 works in the exhibition (including 3 Earth Strings and 2 airy wooden sculptures) created between 2008 and 2022. The complex image collages The Power of Small Things, Growing Ships, Growth, Cascade, Circular Landscape, Interwoven Landscape, Departure into Blue, Connectedness, Rhythm and Ritual tell moving stories that make the breath of nature palpable in space.
Guzei-Taschner uses various fabrics, canvases, jute, nets, strings, alluvial woods and stones. The sewn pictorial elements give the works a remarkable plasticity and independence. In this way Guzei-Taschner opens up her own personal female space of experience. All assemblages convince with precise technique and a masterly topographical accuracy, which is further enhanced by her painting with accentuating color spaces. Bold compositions in blues, greens and browns are juxtaposed with near-monochromes in white.
Vernissage & Program
BURN-IN and Susanne Guzei-Taschner invite you to the exhibition opening on 16.12.2022, 18-20 h.
- Welcome and address to the exhibition Sonja Dolzer | BURN-IN founder
- Musical highlight: Werner Kodydek
- Sociable togetherness
Location
BURN-IN Gallery in Gerngross 2. OG | 1070 Vienna, Mariahilfer Straße 42-48
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Experimental textile object art
Textile art is one of the oldest art forms in history. As early as 27,000 years ago, the art of weaving emerged, bringing revolutionary changes to society and the environment.
Textile art has gone through a wide variety of phases of popularity. Since the 1970s, another turning point has been emerging, as feminist artists such as Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro questioned the distinction between textiles and fine art and embraced techniques traditionally relegated to the realm of "women's crafts," such as sewing and quilting. Well-known protagonists such as Sheila Hicks, Magdalena Abakanowicz, and Yayoi Kusama set new standards with their work and also convinced critical art journalists. The acceptance of the genre increased continuously and with it the popularity among collectors.
With Susanne Guzei-Taschner BURN-IN represents for the first time an established textile object artist and painter, who makes a very valuable contribution to the BURN-IN GreenART portfolio with her artistic concept Nature.Ritual.Space. and Transforming Nature. Her three-dimensional textile objects are characterized by closeness to nature, cosmopolitanism and diversity. The artist deliberately focuses on the independent and lively language of threads and strings. With the Strings of Nature and the experimental exploration of the pictorial space in terms of shaping and color, she conveys an image of nature that always conveys something light and playful.
This unique world of experience, which Guzei-Taschner also offers as commissioned art, exudes an incomparable ambience in private or public spaces. Already in 2009, Prof. Oswald Oberhuber, in his laudation for the exhibition Zeichensprache, praised the very special feel of the works, which one can touch with the eyes. A wonderful statement in the direction of avant-garde and textile object art.
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