In the oeuvre of Austrian painter Alois Mosbacher, ropes, balls, cacti, tents, backpacks, and ladders participate in scenes suggestive of situations experienced in nature. Since the 1980s Mosbacher has developed a distinct artistic language that skillfully internalizes art-historical influences and current trends without explicitly quoting them. His mysterious landscapes, still lifes, and figurative compositions, which are full of chance encounters and paradoxical interactions between unspectacular objects, seem to be from a different world. The essays and the interview contained in this book explain the idea behind these visual worlds and the origins of Palinops, the exhibition’s enigmatic subtitle, while Austrian writer Teresa Präauer reports on the mysterious nocturnal happenings in Mosbacher’s studio.
Author:
Stella Rollig, Miroslav Halák; Miroslav Halák, Lóránd Hegyi, Teresa Präauer, Stella Rollig, Vasilena Stoyanova
Publisher:
Verlag Buchhandlung Walther & Franz König
Format:
20 x 27 cm
ISBN:
978-3-903327-34-42 (German, English)
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