bild | skulptur: Jakob Gasteiger. Angela Glajcar. Christoph Schirmer. Liliane Tomasko. Walter Vopava

Image from the Old High German bilidi ‘replica’, originally miracle or omen, stands for an object mounted on the wall that was made by artistic means. Sculpture is derived from the Latin term sculpere, which refers to carving or chiselling. We can find these definitions by researching on the Internet. The exhibition now juxtaposes five artists who all work both on the wall and in space and who do not concentrate their artistic endeavours on one medium alone, although one often predominates. What all the positions shown here have in common is abstraction - both three-dimensional and two-dimensional.

Liliane Tomasko studied sculpture at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, among other places, and then turned increasingly to painting. In the exhibition, three canvases are juxtaposed with an expansive ‘box sculpture’ created especially for the exhibition. The link between all Tomasko's works will be the framework on which the respective works are based. If on the canvas it is the black gesture of the acrylic spray, which is subsequently literally interwoven and linked with colour, in the sculpture it is the black skeleton, a kind of spider's web, that holds everything together.

 Christoph Schirmer's sculptures are a rigorous translation of his abstract canvas paintings into three-dimensionality. Whether colour, surface, structure or line, what appears on the canvas as a painterly, two-dimensional superimposition is transferred into the space on the floor or pedestal. The viewer is thus able to circumvent one of Schirmer's works, to experience it as a body. Painted wood serves as the material support for his sculptures.

Walter Vopava works with the non-colour black in his paintings. This gives his pictures a special form of obscuration. In his bronze sculptures, the figure and its surrounding space are not thematised - as in the classical sense - but rather the concentration on the closed cube with all its openings. The view into the interior is condensed and reflected, as it were. Just like the paintings, the sculptures are built up in layers and are mutually dependent in their openness and closeness.

Jakob Gasteiger always explores different materials in his work. In addition to his aluminium sculptures, which are a work of chance, a new geometric work will also be on display in the room. Three aluminium cuboids are placed on top of each other, creating a colourful rhythm, like a cross-section through the earth's formations. His canvases stand in contrast to this: like liquid matter, the colour condenses on the base surface and forms opaque formations.

Angela Glajcar's works are based on one of the oldest materials: paper. Industrially manufactured paper is torn by the artist with her own hand, resulting in various injuries. The visibility of this action manifests itself in the tear marks, the edges, of the individual sheets. These are laid on top of each other, forming a cave that can be seen from above. Or the individual sheets of paper hang freely on the wall in several layers. The movement caused by the draught is part of the work. The view through these torn-out openings allows depth, illusion and, not least, light to be experienced.