Alois Neuhold

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Alois Neuhold (2012)

Alois Neuhold (born April 19, 1951 in Eggersdorf near Graz ) is a contemporary painter and object artist . He signs his works with Neuvalis.

Life and meaning

Alois Neuhold first studied Catholic theology in Graz from 1970 to 1976 and then worked as a priest in Göss (Leoben parish) . In 1978 he began studying graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna , which he graduated in 1982. In 1979 he was suspended from the priesthood. In 1986 he was awarded the art promotion prize of the city of Graz, one year later he published as Manifesto I “Adwänd, Adwänd, the hind is burning” and in 2011/2012 as Manifesto II “Far behind the world's back doors: image pits against the rapid - against Dilution of time and megalomania - bodyward paths - earthward images - fools' caps for the sacred ”. Both manifestos can be seen as comments on his artistic work.

Due to its independence, Neuhold's comprehensive work can only be assigned to a school or direction with difficulty. After completing his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, he found connection to the "New Painting" and participated in major exhibitions, so that his work was also assigned to this direction in the following years. Neuhold's work moves in different areas: painting on various image carriers, prints especially in the early 80s, drawings and ink works, relief images since 1983 and finally plastic images and interventions in public space. For long stretches of his oeuvre it is characteristic of Neuhold that he combines painting and sculptural work.

Neuhold describes his artistic work as “compression in the smallest of spaces”, “bundling of energy”, “color compression”, and as the “incarnation of light”.

It is worth mentioning the title, which both explains and puzzles his works in a poetic way.

Alois Neuhold lives and works in Sankt Georgen an der Stiefing , Styria .

Solo exhibitions (selection)

The song of the Modersüßlein or: In the middle of life, death tastes like you. Acrylic, sawdust, wood, cardboard 1988
  • 1984: Vienna, Galerie Ariadne, "It's good that nobody gets old, that I eat an apple stroll"
  • 1986: Vienna, Galerie Ariadne, "Adwänd, Adwänd, the hind is on fire"
  • 1987: Graz, Neue Galerie, "The Fountain Celli of Your Sadness"
  • 1994: Graz, Galerie Schafschetzy, "The water purifier by Fidel Mur"
  • 1998: Graz, Galerie Schafschetzy, "Up from the Gamsbärt where the color pock screams"
  • 2001: Graz, Künstlerhaus, "The picture spinner of St. Morgen"
  • 2005: Graz, cultural center at the Minoriten , "When the world becomes one"
  • 2012: Graz, cultural center at the Minoriten, “ steirischer herbst 2012”. “Not from here”, retrospective with catalog book
  • 2016: Graz, Hofgalerie im Steiermarkhof "Face to face - counter-images to the flickering flood of images with their veiled affluent faces: face - eye-glances - being looked at"

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

Sunbeam Man collects sunbeams quickly. Acrylic, cardboard, 2009
  • 1981: Graz, Neue Galerie, "New Painting in Austria II"
  • 1983 - 1988: "Young artists from Styria" (Bohatsch, Brandl, Klinkan, Mosbacher, Neuhold, Priesch, Schmalix, Wiedner, Wurm), traveling exhibition through numerous European countries: I, DK, B, D, F, YU, L , TR, N, IRL, BG, DDR, P, E
  • 1984: Graz, Neue Galerie and Künstlerhaus (steirischer herbst); Vienna, Secession; Bochum , art museum; "New ways of plastic design in Austria"
  • 1985: Baden-Baden , 4th Biennial of European Graphics
    Zagreb , Galerija grada Zagreba; Ljubljana , Moderna galerija; Beograd , Muzej savramene umetnosti Beograd; "New Art from Austria"
  • 2015: Graz, cultural center with the Minorites, "reliqte reloaded: On the legacy of Christian visual worlds today". Neuhold's contribution: "From God's kitchen cupboard - unusable vessels for the usefulness of a heavenly wedding"
  • 2017: Graz, Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, "VULGATA, 77 accesses to the Bible"
  • 2018: Graz, Kunsthaus, "Faith, Love, Hope"

Public contracts (selection)

  • 1991 - 1993: Dörfla chapel, 8 concrete glass windows, altar wall with cross, entire interior design
  • 1996 - 1997: Chapel LKH Fürstenfeld , 2 concrete glass windows, tabernacle , cross, candlestick, large wall frieze

Quotes

Image portal with image chapel to the image descent world. Installation in the cultural center at the Minoriten, steirischer herbst, Graz, 2012

“Yes, they have to be kneaded like bread, the picture bodies, the loaf pictures. Yes, they must become bodies, living wheels, real bodies, faun lambs with veins and soul costume ... "

“He chose the small and the smallest, the most neglected. In small things are all miracles, all greatness is contained. The big man addict has ravaged our world, gummed up our eyes, exhausted the earth and blocked the sky, the vastness ... "

“I don't fit in any drawers, in any art or denomination boxes. In front of the secret chambers and mystery shrines of life all the shops and boxes burst. I'm sitting at the bottom. Next to me the core cathedrals of the incomprehensible ... "

“The creation of my image is a cultic act ... I question the chests of the traditionally sacred ... I see the sacred in all things. I build chapels and shrines for them. My pictures are holy shrines. "

"Proceed as branching in the picture as plants do, cell by cell, branch by branch ... The picture of a living being that really lives ..."

Literature (selection)

Little red skirts and orange red yellows in the magic red garden. Acrylic, cardboard, 2006
  • Günther Holler-Schuster: The picture mystic , attempts to access the pictures and objects of Alois Neuhold. In: Johannes Rauchberger (Hg./Ed.), Alois Neuhold - You have to tear your eyes out and put your hands on the ear stairs. Vienna, New York: Springer Verlag 2012. pp. 10–21
  • Johannes Rauchberger: God is (not) a museum - I'll take the holy shrines away from you: image magic, political action and God's presence in Alois Neuhold's pictures . In: Art and Church 02/2012, pp. 44–51
  • Johannes Rauchberger (Hg./Ed.), Alois Neuhold - You have to tear your eyes out and put your hands on the ear stairs . Vienna, New York: Springer Verlag 2012. (Catalog book for the exhibition in the Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten: Alois Neuhold - Not from here)
  • Johannes Rauchberger, Faith in no way means believing in anything - Alois Neuhold, his manifestos, his capital, his struggle and his belief in the image. Magic. In: Ders., God has no museum No Museum Has God. Religion in the Art of the Beginning XXI. Jht.s., Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh. 2015. pp. 266–295
  • Theresa Pasterk, Alois Neuhold - duality, rupture and complementary unity . In: Johannes Rauchberger (Hg./Ed.), Alois Neuhold - You have to tear your eyes out and put your hands on the ear stairs. Vienna, New York: Springer Verlag 2012. pp. 64–123
  • Wilfried Skreiner, In: Cat.Exh., New Painting in Austria II, New Gallery at the Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz 1981
  • Wilfried Skreiner, In: cat.exhibition, young artists from Styria, Istituto austriaco di cultura Roma, Neue Galerie Graz, Graz 1983
  • Wilfried Skreiner, In: Cat. Exhibition, New Art from Austria, Neue Galerie Graz, Graz 1985
  • Christa Steinle, Alois Neuhold. In: New ways of plastic design in Austria, cat. Exhibition, Neue Galerie Graz, Graz 1984

Web links

Commons : Alois Neuhold  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theresia Pasterk: Alois Neuhold, ... duality, break and complementary unity . In: Johannes Rauchberger (Hg./Ed.), Alois Neuhold - You have to tear your eyes out and put your hands on the ear stairs. Vienna, New York: Springer Verlag 2012. p. 64
  2. ↑ Alois Neuhold: Far behind the world back doors: image pits against the over-speed, against time thinning and megalomania, bodyward paths, earthward images, fool's caps for the holy , Manifest II. In: Johannes Rauchberger (ed.), Alois Neuhold - You need to you Tear out your eyes and put your hands on the ear rests. Vienna, New York: Springer Verlag 2012. pp. 400 and 406
  3. ↑ Video for the exhibition “Not from here”. Accessed on January 24, 2018
  4. ^ Report from "80 Kulturzeitung" on the exhibition from "face to face". Accessed on January 24, 2018
  5. ↑ Explanations of the cultural center at the Minoriten Graz on the exhibition “reliqte, reloaded”. Accessed on January 24, 2018
  6. ↑ Explanations of the cultural center at the Minoriten Graz on the exhibition "Vulgate, 77 accesses to the Bible". Accessed on January 24, 2018
  7. ↑ Alois Neuhold: Far behind the world rear doors . In: Johannes Rauchberger (Hg./Ed.), Alois Neuhold - You have to tear your eyes out and put your hands on the ear stairs. Vienna, New York: Springer Verlag 2012. p. 396
  8. ↑ Alois Neuhold: Far behind the world rear doors . In: Johannes Rauchberger (Hg./Ed.), Alois Neuhold - You have to tear your eyes out and put your hands on the ear stairs. Vienna, New York: Springer Verlag 2012. p. 414
  9. ^ Alois Neuhold: From the splinter work . In: Johannes Rauchberger (Hg./Ed.), Alois Neuhold - You have to tear your eyes out and put your hands on the ear stairs. Vienna, New York: Springer Verlag 2012. p. 240
  10. ^ Alois Neuhold: From the splinter work . In: Johannes Rauchberger (Hg./Ed.), Alois Neuhold - You have to tear your eyes out and put your hands on the ear stairs. Vienna, New York: Springer Verlag 2012. p. 338
  11. ^ Alois Neuhold: From the splinter work . In: Johannes Rauchberger (Hg./Ed.), Alois Neuhold - You have to tear your eyes out and put your hands on the ear stairs. Vienna, New York: Springer Verlag 2012. p. 246
personal data
SURNAME Neuhold, Alois
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neuvalis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and object artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Eggersdorf near Graz