Petra and Anton Gölles cordially invite you to the opening!

 

SOFT OPENING

on Saturday, 19 March 2022 from 10.00 to 18.00 o’clock

current Corona rules

 

 

EXHIBITION

until 3. May 2022, Mon – Sat 10.00 – 18.00 hrs.

Sun by appointment 0664 2645975

 

 

 

SEVDA CHKOUTOVA | ANDREAS LEIKAUF | ANNA STANGL
Quo vadis homo sapiens?

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

 

 

Sevda Chkoutova

Feminity_01, 2022, Watercolor and ink on paper, 175 x 125 cm

Andreas Leikauf

Looking back, 2021, Acrylic on molino, 140 x 100 cm

Anna Stangl

Paleozoic forest, 2022, ink, pastel, wax on cardboard, collaged, 102.5 x 75.5 cm

Sevda Chkoutova

Feminity_03

2022, Watercolor and ink on paper, 175 x 125 cm

Sevda Chkoutova

k_r_g_005

2021, acrylic, watercolor and colored pencil on paper, 92 x 75,5 cm

Sevda Chkoutova

k_r_g_008

2021, acrylic, watercolor and colored pencil on paper, 110 x 92 cm

Sevda Chkoutova

k_r_m_05

2021, Watercolor on transparent paper, 41,5 x 29,4 cm

Sevda Chkoutova

untitled_04 (from the series Lust)

2019, Pencil on paper, 125 x 175 cm

Sevda Chkoutova

Nature_01

2020, Pencil on paper, 125 x 112 cm

Sevda Chkoutova

Tag 3b_not quite there

2021, Watercolor and ink on paper, 27,9 x 20,8 cm

Sevda Chkoutova

Tag_052

2021, acrylic and ink on paper and tracing paper, 29,7 x 21 cm

Sevda Chkoutova

Tag_06_neither backward nor forward_balance is something else

2021, Watercolor and ink on paper, 27,9 x 20,8 cm

Sevda Chkoutova

Weibsbilder IV_02

2021, Watercolor and ink on paper, 42 x 59,2 cm

Sevda Chkoutova

Females images IV_05

2021, Watercolor and ink on paper, 42 x 59,2 cm

Andreas Leikauf

Stand up!

2022, Acrylic on Molino, 140 x 100 cm

Andreas Leikauf

Reasonable protests

2022, Arylic on Molino, 140 x 100 cm

Andreas Leikauf

The story of

2022, Acrylic on Molino, 45/55 x 65 cm

Andreas Leikauf

Who´s strange?

2022, Acrylic on Molino, 45/55 x 65 cm

Andreas Leikauf

The future always starts tomorrow

2022, Acrylic on Molino, 50 x 40 cm

Andreas Leikauf

Always be happy

2022, Acrylic on Molino, 50 x 40 cm

Andreas Leikauf

Stay angry

2022, Acrylic on Molino, 50 x 40 cm

Anna Stangl

Journey through the night

2022, ink, pastel, oil pastel, black chalk on cardboard, collaged, 38,5 x 47 cm

Anna Stangl

The swimmers

2017, oil pastel, pastel, wax, black chalk, cardboard, 36 x 48 cm

Anna Stangl

Life

2014, oil pastel, pastel, black chalk, charcoal, ink, wax on cardboard, collaged, 76 x 56,5 cm

Anna Stangl

Memory

2018, pastel, ink, wax, black chalk on cardboard, 75 x 59 cm

Anna Stangl

Big fish

2018, black chalk, oil pastel, pastel, wax, charcoal on paper, 67 x 47,5 cm

Anna Stangl

Growing

2014, oil pastel, pastel, graphite pencil, colored pencil, black chalk, wax, ink, paper, 21 x 26 cm

Anna Stangl

Monkey Circus

2007, oil pastel, colored pencil, chalk, charcoal, poppy seed oil, cardboard, 100 x 122 cm

Anna Stangl

Sleeping guard

2018, ink, pastel, oil pastel, charcoal, black chalk on cardboard, 73 x 53.5 cm