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CARLONE CONTEMPORARY: Elmar Trenkwalder
The expansive sculptures of Austrian artist Elmar Trenkwalder (b. 1959 in Weißenbach am Lech) are truly a feast for the eyes. For his large-scale works, he draws upon a rich repertoire of archaic figures, lavish ornament, and biomorphic forms to create an inexhaustible wealth of detail. As part of the CARLONE CONTEMPORARY series, Trenkwalder presents his work WVZ 183 in the Baroque Carlone Hall of the Upper Belvedere, where opulence and thematic complexity link the contemporary sculpture to the Baroque pictorial program of the space.
Trenkwalder’s monumental, often architecturally inspired sculptures originate in the medium of drawing. The artist hand-shapes countless individual pieces over an extended period, firing and glazing them before assembling them into a cohesive work. Echoing Baroque art, Trenkwalder employs sensory illusion and a wealth of information as artistic strategies, to draw viewers under the spell of his works.
Curated by Stella Rollig.
Assistant Curator: Johanna Hofer
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Elmar Trenkwalder, b. 1959, lives and works in Innsbruck. From 1978 to 1982, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Max Weiler and Arnulf Rainer. He gained international recognition early on in Cologne and France and has exhibited in numerous exhibitions, including: Aperto 90, Venice Biennale (1990); Austria im Rosennetz / Wunderkammer Österreich, MAK Vienna / Kunsthaus Zurich (1996), by Harald Szeemann; Lyon Biennale (1997); Upper Austrian Provincial Museum, Linz (2001 & 2003); Musée du Louvre, Paris (2005); Maison Rouge, Paris (2008); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2017); Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig (2018); Beelden aan Zee, The Hague (2022), among others.
CARLONE CONTEMPORARY
The CARLONE CONTEMPORARY series presents contemporary works in the Carlone Hall of the Upper Belvedere in six-month intervals. From the frescoed ancient world of the deities Apollo and Diana to the present day, contemporary artists bridge the Baroque pictorial program with new artistic stances.
