The exhibition at the ALBERTINA shows Jakob Gasteiger's oeuvre from all previous creative periods. The Austrian's work is characterised by a special reflection on the painting process and painting: He is not concerned with the depiction of what is seen or obviously perceptible. An elementary formal language dominates. The viewer's attention is drawn to the colour, the structure of lines and the resulting transitions between spaces. His pictures tell no stories, they refer to nothing but themselves - the only thing they have in common is pure self-reference.
This minimalism, this tendency towards reduction without concrete depiction, raises many questions. And yet a special harmony between the dimensions succeeds. This high aesthetic competence has made Jakob Gasteiger one of the most important representatives of domestic contemporary art with international significance for decades.
Albertina Museum, Vienna
Curated by Klaus Albrecht Schröder
Jakob Gasteiger. Post Radical Painting: Albertina Vienna
past event
