Irene Andessner

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Irene Andessner (* 1954 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian visual artist .

Live and act

Irene Andessner studied 1978/79 at the Accademia di belle arti in Venice with Emilio Vedova and from 1979 to 1984 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Arnulf Rainer and Max Weiler .

Her main theme since 1988 has been the self-portrait , which she originally implemented in the form of painting and from the mid-1990s in tableaux vivants , photo and video productions. “The face is only mine by chance,” said Irene Andessner in 1992. After that, self-staging with role-play took the place of the painted self-portrait. Afterimages of art and contemporary historical models such as Sofonisba Anguissola or Frida Kahlo were created, as well as saints and fictional people as well as modern myths ( Marlene Dietrich ). In the “IMDietrich” project, the role identification went up to the acceptance of the surname of the role model through a real marriage. As "Wanda" (re) she produced the ideal image that Leopold von Sacher-Masoch had of women. In 2006 she interpreted the traditional Mozart portraits ("IA Mozart (?)"), Whose authenticity is controversial . She transformed the “Hall of Famous Men” in the Caffè Florian in Venice into a “Salon of Illustrious Women”, and the paternoster in the Viennese House of Industry into a “Maternoster” (mater nostra).

According to Andessner, the image of women, whether they have been handed down, remembered, imagined, idealized or perceived by oneself, is always fictional in the eyes of both the beholder and society. Not "I was" , but "I am" (as she calls her production team) is the artist's motto, a credo with which she herself expresses historical figures in a very contemporary way and offers a kind of counter-present - in the sense of me is / am another.

Works

Works in a virtual catalog
  • Mummies, demons, skulls, portraits (1982–1985)
  • Gothic church figures (1985/1986)
  • The Fighters (1986–1988)
  • Self-portraits (since 1989/1992)
  • Portraits (1993/1994)
  • New self-portraits (1994/1995)
  • My Murano (1995)
  • Role models (1996–1998)
  • Painter's Hat (1997)
  • Cyberface (1998)
  • Barbara Blomberg (1998)
  • Women in Salzburg (1999)
  • Waterproof (1999)
  • Irma Troll-Borostyáni (2000),
  • Milli Stubel-Orth / Irrlichter (2000)
  • Portrait - Détrait (2000)
  • IM Dietrich (2001)
  • Portrait project IA (2001 ff),
  • Wanda SM (2003)
  • Donne illustri (2003)
  • IA Mozart (?) (2005/2006)
  • Maternoster (2006)
  • IAM Ida / Artemis / Merian (2007)
  • Citylights [Viennese women] (2008)
  • Virgen del Arte (2008/2009)

Other works

  • Citylights [Salzburg Women] (2009)
  • Citylights [Schöne Linzerin] (2009)
  • Art Protectors - Living Pictures in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna (2010)
  • Art Protectors - role portraits after Frans Hals (2010-present)
  • Maria Andeßner (2011)
  • Ateliermuseum, role portraits (work in progress)
  • Young Art Proetectors (work in progress)
  • Last Supper, tableau vivants (work in progress)

Solo and group exhibitions

Projects

Works on Ida Pfeiffer , Maria Sibylla Merian and Artemis are currently in progress, the productions “Wiener Frauen” and “Virgen del Arte” (for Málaga) are in preparation. The Portrait Project IA is running at the same time, as part of which Irene Andessner “commissions” artist colleagues to produce their self-portraits; the face is quite evident in the portrait project results - just by chance hers.

Assessments

In the eyes of Peter Sloterdijk , her portraits mark the dissolution and thus the interchangeability of the pictorial representation of personality as “détraits”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kvk.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de
  2. ↑ a b website of the artist
  3. ↑ in: Sphären I (1998)
personal data
SURNAME Andessner, Irene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg