Egon Rusina
Egon Rusina (born July 15, 1949 in Ortisei in Val Gardena ; actually Egon Moroder ) is an Italian painter and illustrator from the Moroder family of artists from South Tyrol. He lives with his wife and daughter in Ortisei.
Life
education
After finishing secondary school in 1964, he learned the art of wood carving in a workshop in Val Gardena . At the same time he attended the art school in Ortisei, where he studied drawing under Markus Vallazza . Between 1967 and 1968 he was an art student in Florence and also involved in the student movements in 1968/69. He developed a strong political and social commitment.
Bressanone Middle School
From 1969 to 1973 he taught as an art teacher at the Brixen Middle School and at the same time was active in the Art and Culture Circle (Circolo) in Ortisei. The first experimental exhibitions arose: in August 1970 he experimented with cybernetics in the exhibition room of the Circolo ; a play of lights made of discontinuous movements of indefinable objects in connection with electronic music should give the visitor a feeling of restlessness. In August 1971 he built a 15 m long and 2 m high hedgehog installation. At the same time he dealt with community political satire by drawing and distributing posters and leaflets. In 1973 he quit his apprenticeship, traveled to Munich and lived there for a year as a draftsman.
Home mountains and slaughterhouse
From 1975 to 1979 he dealt with the subject of "flesh, blood and bones, life and death" in various drawings and paintings that were created in the mountains and on a slaughterhouse. He sometimes used blood as a dye and for the first time used his fingers instead of the brush. "The Great Luck" by Albrecht Dürer inspired a series of bizarre images.
Socially critical realism
He went public with performances and caricatures of a politically and socially critical nature. In collaboration with other artists from South Tyrol, exhibitions were created in Bozen ( Pavillon De Fleur ), Meran ( Rathausgalerie ) and Brixen ( Palais Palfi ). His works have been shown in Vienna ( Bevilacqua La Masa ), Venice ( Aleph Gallery ) and Milan ( Piccinini-Cortina Gallery ). At that time he drew caricatures for South Tyrolean newspapers in German, Italian and Ladin such as Usc di Ladins , Alto Adige , FF-Illustrierte , Skolast , Südtiroler Arbeiterzeitung , Alternative (KPI) , Sturzflug and Distel .
In a collective exhibition in 1983 at Prösels Castle near Völs am Schlern , his witch-burning installation was thrown into the cellar and hacked together. Because of a video installation , Rusina was accused by the public prosecutor of abusing the state religion and profanity, but was acquitted by the examining magistrate.
Cartoons and caricatures
The Watten playing cards Rusina with South Tyrolean celebrities (edition: 30,000 copies) were very successful. In 1997 the book Viecherei was published , a collection of over 80 cartoons and caricatures. Another Watten playing card series “Prominent Women” appeared in 2002. Caricatures of South Tyrolean women were immortalized on playing cards in a more or less provocative way. A third satirical version of the Watten playing cards appeared in November 2009 with world and local South Tyrolean celebrities.
Fantastic realism
In 1991 Rusina exhibited his mountain pictures for the first time in South Tyrol. With The White Deer 1994 in the Art and Culture Circle in Ortisei, Rusina shows blankets of snow high on the Raschötzer Alm . With the presentation of the CD of the series Nemesis in the gallery Art Forum in Merano 1999 Rusina finished his work in the style of fantastic realism.
heart of stone
From the year 2000 Rusina painted in the mountains, mostly the Raschötzer Alm. He worked on two projects: the winter-themed snow is a compilation of pictures and a video film, the summer counterpart resolution, a picture series. At that time, Rusina named his production Heart of Stone in order to express his closeness to nature in the title of the same exhibition.
Meran Art showed in the house of the Sparkasse mountain pictures by Giovanni Segantini , Alberto and Giovanni Giacometti , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Richard Long , Gerhard Richter , Max Weiler , Vittorio Sella , Mario Sironi and others. v. a. Rusina presented a large wall with a cycle of rock paintings.
Dissolution in nature
For fifteen years Rusina has been living in the forest at around 2000 m altitude in summer. Far away from civilization, he has a small tent that he shares with three goats and a couple of hens. In 2003 the painting studies about the contrails of the planes in the sky of the Dolomites (Alitalia) were created, since 2004 Rusina has been working on the study Samsara - Niflheim .
Artistic change
The work of the artist Rusina is marked by the unease in society in South Tyrol and at the same time by the attraction of his Ladin homeland and mountains. As a result, it experienced a continuous change in form and aesthetic expressiveness. From satire , caricature or cartoon and fantastic realism , his work moved to monochrome painting, which, according to Rusina, represents the calm, death and infinity of nature. The “nothing” or the “emptiness” - so called by Rusina herself - should find expression in his last works.
Exhibitions
- In 1993 in the city museum of Klausen the erotic cycle "Dornrößchen" was presented to the public.
- And the mountain has become flesh was the name of the exhibition, which was organized by state cultural assessor Dr. Bruno Hosp was opened in 1991 in St. Magdalena in Villnöss.
- Rusina's political caricatures were shown in various South Tyrolean towns (Bozen, Sterzing, Vilpian) between 1995 and 1997.
- In October 2000, he exhibited the dissolution cycle in the old tunnel of the then Val Gardena Railway (built in 1917) .
- In August 2007 the creation Aura in Aere was presented in a group exhibition at the Grand Hotel Toblach .
- The Ladin Ćiastel de Tor museum in Val Badia honored the artist in spring 2007 with the complete cycles Samsara-Niflheim (2006–2008) and The Yellow Void (2008–2011).
- Absolute sleep in the Stadtgalerie Brixen, Große Lauben, Brixen 2010.
- Ghialar in the Istitut Ladin Micurá de Rü, St. Martin in Thurn, 2016
Bibliography (selection)
- Mec, Markus Schenk and Egon Moroder Rusina: Caricatures de Mec y Egon Rusina. Edizions L Brunsin . Ortisei 1986.
- Egon Moroder Rusina: Beastliness. A collection of cartoons and caricatures . Publisher: South Tyrolean weekly magazine "FF" . Bolzano 1997.
- Egon Moroder Rusina: The small dictionary of the anti-artist Egon Urban Maria Rusina. From: Solveig Freericks, Franz Pichler, Isolde Tappeiner: Everyday life is our culture. Druck Union Meran 2000. pp. 239-240.
literature
- Solveig Freericks, Franz Pichler, Isolde Tappeiner: Everyday life is our culture. Druck Union Meran 2000. pp. 22, 219, 221, 227, 229, 237, 239-241, 247, 248, 253, 254.
- Marco Obrist, Margit Strobl, Roman Kurzmeyer: Nice view. Folio Verlag Bozen 2002. P. 73 and P. 122. ISBN 3-85256-227-9 .
- Arthur Gartner, Andreas Gartner: Heart made of stone. From the castle tower in the beautiful Pfitschtal. Arthur Gartner, self-published, Sterzing 2002. pp. 8–9.
- Scudiero Maurizio, The Collection of Works of Art of the Autonomous Region Trentino-South Tyrol Bolzano 2005. SS. 11, 205, 319.
- Margit Strobl: E. Rusina. From: Mondadori Electa 2006 . Pp. 114-125. ISBN 88-370-4174-8 .
- Hartwig Thaler: 50x50x50 artSüdtirol. Exhibition catalog. Oppidum Verein Franzensfeste 2011. pp. 58–59. 116.
- Irene Prugger: South Tyrolean alpine pastures. Löwenzahn, 2012. ISBN 978-3-7066-2485-5 . Pp. 248-255.
Filmography
- Traudi Messini: Purism - the painter Egon Rusina . Duration: 20 minutes. RAI TV Bozen 2000.
- Hans-Dieter Hartl, Helmuth Lechthaler: Around the Sella . Bavarian Broadcasting 2008.
- Karl Prossliner: Egon Rusina - The premonition of the infinitely empty space . 22nd international mountain adventure film festival Graz, German, 17 minutes
Web links
- Imagery
- Exhibition in the Museum Ladin 2007
- Opening Absolute Sleep - FF Article
- Irene Prugger I like doing nothing , Wiener Zeitung, September 18, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maximilian Oberhollenzer. "Art made of pigments, eggs, spit. The South Tyrolean Rusina retreats into the tent for months". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Tuesday, April 7, 2015. No. 80
- ↑ Contrail Alitalia PowerPoint presentation
- ↑ Samsara-Niflheim Powerpoint Presentation
- ↑ Samsara Niflheim: Presentation of the concept (PDF; 22 kB)
- ↑ Absolute sleep (concept) (PDF; 22 kB)
- ↑ The yellow void: Presentation of the concept (PDF; 1.5 MB)
- ↑ The Absolute Sleep (exhibition) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ghialar
- ↑ Film: Egon Rusina - The inkling of infinitely empty space
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rusina, Egon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Moroder, Egon (real name); Moroder Rusina, Egon; Moroder-Rusina, Egon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian painter, graphic artist, illustrator (South Tyrol) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 15, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ortisei in Val Gardena |