Sevda Chkoutova
2022, Watercolor and ink on paper, 175 x 125 cm
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SOFT OPENING
on Saturday, 19 March 2022 from 10.00 to 18.00 o’clock
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EXHIBITION
until 3. May 2022, Mon – Sat 10.00 – 18.00 hrs.
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SEVDA CHKOUTOVA
1978 * in Sofia, Bulgaria
1991-1996 University of Applied Arts, Sofia
1996-1997 Art History, New Bulgarian University, Sofia
1997-1998 Art History, University of Vienna
1998-2002 Fine Arts – Contextual Painting, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
Sevda Chkoutova considers female desire and lust in relation to social attributes and norms, inner constraints and self-awareness. Drawing primarily with graphite pencil, ballpoint pen, and ink, Chkoutova circles the female world with its diverse array of bodily experiences, states, dreams, and horrific visions. In a way that is fragmentary, sporadically caricatured, aggressive at the same time, but concrete, tender and loving. She shows all facets of womanhood and female life: wife, mother, daughter, artist, housewife, lover, …
At the center of Chkoutova’s artistic research is female desire in all its complexity. She examines the double standard, its dominant representation in the media and restrictions imposed in society and experienced in many ways by women themselves.
Text excerpt: “Women.Now.” Exhibition Catalog ACF New York 2018
ANDREAS LEIKAUF
1966 * in Judenburg
Studied painting and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Andreas Leikauf`s expressive paintings, with striking motifs and catchy slogans take aim at the zeitgeist as it manifests itself in film, fashion, music and lifestyle. He has developed an unmistakable style in which he uses matte black dispersion to depict selected scenes from our visual culture.
This creates an image-text relationship that evokes a narrative that is as associative as it is enigmatic, as open as it is hermetic. It is precisely in the context of the narrative moment of his images that film and music have been repeatedly invoked as references. Yet Leikauf’s time-agnostic images are never resigned or culturally pessimistic, for as one painting so aptly puts it: Sometimes we fall, sometimes we float.
Roman Grabner, Universalmuseum Joanneum Graz
ANNA STANGL
1961 * in Salzburg
1983-1987 studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris
Anna Stangl undertook many long-distance trips after studying painting in Vienna and Paris. We also discover foreign worlds in sometimes small-format, figurative depictions. The preferred technique is black chalk or pastel on paper. The frequent use of poppy seed oil enhances the impression of transparency, of fragility but also sensuality.
Stangl is a master of suggestion. She is a tracker, a track-layer, a mystery-maker. On her journeys of discovery through the human worlds and their abysses, nothing remains hidden from her.
The search for constant novelty in art, the addiction to develop current trends, to place art in a fashionable context, thus to react to the zeitgeist, is alien to Stangl. In addition to the traditional use of technique, the thematic interest coincides with the original principles of fine art: it is the search for the existential, for the background of existence, which Anna Stangl exploits in themes and variations.
Elisabeth Nowak Thaller, Lentos Art Museum