Alfred Haberpointner
Alfred Haberpointner (* 1966 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian sculptor .
Life
After attending the Hallein School of Sculpture , he studied from 1986 to 1991 at the Linz Art University with Professor Erwin Reiter . Study trips to New York, Paris and longer stays around Genoa followed. During these years he was mainly concerned with proportions, and there were series of works entitled “Weighting”. Its development continued in the areas of structure, space and texture. Body and space as well as the interlinking of the two are themes that are still present in the works to this day. Alfred Haberpointner lives and works in Leonding near Linz and Ebenau in Salzburg.
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Alfred Haberpointner is a sculptor who consciously turns to wood in his work: “This kind of love for wood is decisive. On the one hand, it's something that I'm very attached to. On the other hand, I try to overcome this bond, to shake it off again, to push it into the background. "
In Alfred Haberpointner's work, the displacement of wood is primarily a displacement of wood-sightedness. In various works, he covers the entire surface with closely spaced iron plates. Haberpointner takes a more drastic approach to some heads, which he completely covers with lead. However, the openness of the artistic method is decisive for the perception of the sculptures: The iron plates, for example, still reveal the wooden body underneath, and the seams of the lead jacket first indicate that this is just a shell and not a solid metal object . Haberpointner proceeds counterpoint with his chopped or beaten objects, in which he virtually illustrates the properties of wood. With chainsaws and targeted ax blows, he tears open the surface, exposes the fibers of the material and thus creates a texture whose rhythm, directionality or intensity the viewer seeks to understand. What both approaches have in common is a confrontation with the material, be it through affirmation or conscious negation.
Alfred Haberpointner's works require close observation, literal reading of traces. Haberpointner's preoccupation with series of works shows how subtle and varied these signs are. Again and again and persistently, the artist devotes himself to an elementary problem: while in the 1990s it was primarily questions of proportion that he tried to fathom in countless of his so-called weightings, it is time and again the human head that the artist draws on and serially thoroughly declined. For Haberpointner's understanding of art, it is elementary that the artist is involved in a process of finding forms that is comparable to nature: “With the exception of the works on and with paper, it is often a long, almost meditative work of days, weeks, about a work bring to a conclusion. Nature basically does the same thing! This process, which I try to transfer to a material, is usually a lengthy one. So it is not the spontaneous expression that is in the foreground here, but the finding of the form over a certain temporal continuity. "
Solo exhibitions
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Group exhibitions
- 1992: "Austrian Contemporary Art of the 20th Century", Galerie Academia, Salzburg (AT)
- 1992: "Austrian Art", Museum Würth, Künzelsau (DE)
- 1993: "Young Art from Austria", MAM Gallery Mario Mauroner Gallery, Salzburg (AT)
- 1993: "Abstract Tendencies", Museum Würth, Künzelsau (DE)
- 1993: "Painting from Austria", Trans-Art, Cologne (DE)
- 1994: "Wotruba and the Consequences, - Austrian Sculpture since 1945", Museum Würth, Künzelsau (D) and Rupertinum Salzburg and BAWAG Foundation, Vienna (AT)
- 1994: "Poetry and Suggestion", Galerie Academia, Salzburg (AT)
- 1995: "Salzburg - Trento", Museo Civico, Trento (IT)
- 1996: "Art from Austria from 1896 to 1996", Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn (DE)
- 1997: The Huberte Goote Gallery, Zug (CH)
- 1998: "Creative Density - Austrian Art in the Würth Collection", Museum Würth, Künzelsau (DE)
- 1999: “Time section 1900–2000. 100 Years of 100 Works ", Wolfgang Gurlitt Museum, Linz (AT)
- 1999: "The Collection of the City of Vienna", Kunsthalle Wien (AT)
- 2000: "Time - Timless", Egon Schiele Art Center, Krumau (CZ)
- 2000: "The nature of things", Kunstraum Dornbirn (AT)
- 2000: "Approaching Construction", Kunsthalle Erfurt (DE) and Kunstverein Steyr (AT)
- 2001: "Connecting Worlds", JF Kennedy Center, Washington, DC (USA)
- 2001: "Insight - Outlook - Overview", Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall (DE),
- 2001: "The Color Black", Upper Austrian State Museum, Linz (AT),
- 2001: "From Degas to Richter", Rupertinum, Salzburg (AT)
- 2002: "Heintz's Wonderland - Aspects de la sculpture contemporaine", Galerie l'Independance and Banque International à Luxembourg (LU)
- 2003: "30 Years of the Gallery in the Traklhaus" Gallery in the Traklhaus, Salzburg and Galerie am Stein, Schärding (AT)
- 2003: "50. Salon Montrouge ", Paris, Genoa, Salzburg, Barcelona, Addison Fine Arts, San Francisco (USA)
- 2006: Body, Space Objects, Lower Austrian Documentation Center for Modern Art, St. Pölten (AT)
- 2006: "The Shoe in Art", Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg (AT),
- 2006: "Sculptures, Objects", Lentos Art Museum, Linz (AT), Goldener Engel Gallery, Hall i. Tyrol (AT)
- 2006: "Paradiso et Inferno", MAM Galerie Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Salzburg (AT)
- 2006: "Top seduction - From Manet's Nana to Alfred Haberpointner's lead lingerie", Oskar Reinhard Museum am Stadtgarten, Winterthur (CH)
- 2007: “Painting and Sculpture. Horst Thürheimer and Alfred Haberpointner ", Municipal Gallery, Rosenheim (DE)
- 2008: "Schaurausch", OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz (AT)
- 2008: "35th anniversary exhibition", MAM Galerie Mario Maurer Contemporary Art, Salzburg (AT)
- 2009: "The main thing is heads", Reckermann Gallery, Cologne (DE)
- 2009: "One night stand", Upper Austrian State Gallery, Linz (AT)
- 2009: "We", MAM Galerie Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Salzburg (AT)
- 2009: "The Monauni Collection", Lichtenstein Art Museum, Vaduz (FL)
- 2009: "Winterreigen", Galerie Schmidt, Reith in Tirol (AT)
- 2009: "Eating in Art", Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg (AT)
- 2010: "Surface as a principle", Landesgalerie Oberösterreich, Linz (AT)
- 2010: "You never know what will happen next", Lentos Art Museum, Linz (AT)
- 2010: "Dreams", MAM Galerie Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Salzburg (AT)
- 2010: "Space Body Use", MUSA, Vienna (AT)
- 2010: "Crossover", WELTI modern art, Zurich (CH)
- 2011: Galerie Schmidt, Reith in Tirol (AT)
- 2011: "Reality and Abstraction", Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus (AT)
- 2011: "I don't believe my eyes", Caricature Museum, Krems (AT)
- 2011: "Great" and "Defiant Gardens", MAM Galerie Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Salzburg (AT)
- 2011: "Blickachsen 8", Bad Homburg (AT)
- 2011: "Overlaps III", Gallery Walker, Weizelsdorf (AT)
- 2011: "The Hook of Sculpture" Gerhard Marck's House Bremen (DE)
- 2011: "Waldeslust", Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall (DE)
- 2012: “The Hook of Sculpture”, Upper Austrian State Gallery, Linz (AT)
- 2012: "Primavera" Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Salzburg (AT)
- 2012: "Structure Texture Space" Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Vienna (AT)
- 2012: “Winterreigen” Gallery Schmidt, Reith i. A. (AT)
- 2013: "Creative Density" Art Room Würth, Böheimkirchen (AT)
- 2013: "AEIOU" Austrian aspects in the Würth Collection, Museum Würth, Künzelsau (DE), Galerie Renate Bender, Munich (DE)
- 2013: "From surface to space", Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus (AT)
- 2013: "Sampling", Ossiach Abbey (AT)
Public collections
- Museum Beelden aan Zee (NL)
- Museum Würth (DE)
- Museum Liaunig (AT)
- MUSA Vienna (AT)
- Lentos Linz (AT)
- Museum der Moderne Salzburg (AT)
- Upper Austrian State Gallery (AT)
Awards
- 1990: Prize of the Art University Linz
- 1997: Theodor Körner Prize
- 2001: Promotion Prize for the Province of Upper Austria
Publications (selection)
- Alfred Haberpointner - sculptures, text: Peter Baum, self-published 1992
- Haberpointner - pictures and sculptures, text: Christiane Vielhaber, exhibition catalog Galerie Reckermann Cologne, Galerie Academia, Salzburg, Cologne, 1994
- Haberpointner - Pictures and Sculptures, Text: Margit Zuckriegl, Hanne Weskott, Lucien Kayer, exhibition catalog Kunstverein Kärnten Klagenfurt, Galerie Academia Salzburg, Salzburg, 1996
- Alfred Haberpointner - Sculptures, text: Michael Bockemühl, exhibition catalog The Huberte Goote Gallery Zug, Museum Moderner Kunst Wörlen Passau, 1997
- Haberpointner - Pictures and Sculptures, Text: Peter Weiermaier, exhibition catalog Galerie Reckermann Cologne, Galerie Chobot Vienna, Galerie Academia Salzburg, Cologne 1999
- Arsenal der Köpf, text: Dieter Ronte, exhibition catalog Kunstraum Fuhrwerkswaage Cologne, Cologne 2002. ISBN 3-930636-46-8
- Alfred Haberpointner - Concrete Metamorphoses, Text: Carl Aigner, Exh. Cat. Museum Würth Künzelsau, Karlsruhe 2004. ISBN 3-89929-017-8
- Museum Beelden aan Zee (ed.), Köpfe / Heads Sculptures and Drawings, Text: Dick van Broekhuizen, exhibition catalog Museum Beelden aan Zee, Hiorn 2010
- The hook in sculpture - Alfred Haberpointner, Gerhard Marcks Haus, Upper Austrian State Gallery, text: Arie Hartog, Yvette Deseyve, Paolo Bianchi, Martin Hochleitner. 2011. ISBN 3-86832-088-1
Movie
- Thinking and Feeling - film documentary about Alfred Haberpointner by Johanna Tschautscher , 2011
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Arie Hartog (editor), Martin Hochleitner (editor): The hook of sculpture - Alfred Haberpointner. 2013, excerpts from text by Yvette Deseyve, pp. 37–40
- ^ Website of Alfred Haberpointner , accessed on October 16, 2013
- ^ Website of Alfred Haberpointner , accessed on October 16, 2013
- ↑ Belvedere Archive website , accessed on October 16, 2013
- ^ Website of Alfred Haberpointner , accessed on October 16, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haberpointner, Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Salzburg |