Jakob Gasteiger

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Cast aluminum sculptures
Sculptures cast from aluminum. Installation Atelier Weinviertel, Lower Austria, 2016
Acrylic on canvas
Acrylic on canvas
Acrylic on canvas
Acrylic on canvas
Paper on canvas
Paper on canvas

Jakob Gasteiger (* 1953 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian painter .

life and work

Gasteiger studied stage design at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Salzburg from 1970 to 1974 , has lived in Vienna since 1972 and from 1976 attended the graphic teaching and research institute . He has had a second studio in the Weinviertel since 2013.

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In a 1999 interview, Gasteiger described his work as "thematizing the painting process and painting". For him, art is the creation of a system of sequences of action in which images without iconographic claims arise. His repeated activity of applying paint and structuring the material color would refuse any image content.

This note, selected as an example from previous texts, proves to be representative of Gasteiger's pragmatics in the self-description of his artistic work and at the same time corresponds to the definition models of the styles that would have influenced him most. These include the artist Radical Painting and Minimal Art .

With both art movements Gasteiger described points of reference that had presented an elementary formal language as a countercurrent to a previous expressionist art direction. In this sense, Minimal Art was a reaction to Abstract Expressionism in the 1960s . Twenty years should the New Wild the Radical Painting follow.

With its essential characteristics, radical painting also represented the most concise orientation field for Jakob Gasteiger at this point in time. As a postmodern attitude of abstract painting of the late 1980s, it referred to its primary and intrinsic bases, such as surface, structure, image carrier and above all the color. The Radical Painting presented itself itself. A whatever type content has not been sought by the protagonists.

As an artist, Gasteiger defies subject-specific classification: most likely a painter, perhaps a sensual minimalist. His trademark are monochromes with strong reliefs and crests in rich color. Gasteiger's work leaves many questions unanswered, but better poses new ones: such as the transitions between image, object and sculpture, between surfaces and space, or material and immaterial. Accordingly, his oeuvre is diverse and rich in contrasts. What all works have in common, whether they can be assigned to graphics, painting, objects, sculpture or the environment, is their self-reference: they do not tell stories, do not depict, they refer to nothing other than themselves, only present to you own being.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1985–1991: Galerie Ropac, Salzburg
  • 1983: Armstorfer Gallery, Salzburg
  • 1987: Carine Campo Gallery, Antwerp
  • 1988: Galerie De Selby, Amsterdam
  • 1989: Galerie Gawlik / Schorm, Vienna
  • 1991: Galerie Transit, Leuven / Belgium
  • 1991: Picaron Editions, Amsterdam
  • 1992: Kärntner Landesgalerie, Klagenfurt
  • 1994: Praz-Delavallade Gallery, Paris
  • 1995: Galerie Baks Modern & Contemporary Art, The Hague
  • 1995: New gallery at the Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
  • 1997–2003: Galerie next St. Stephan, Vienna
  • 1997–2003: Galerie Cora Hölzl, Düsseldorf
  • 1999: Galerie Lea Gredt, Luxembourg
  • 2001: Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York
  • 2002: Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Rupertinum, Salzburg
  • 2005: Galerie De Rijk, The Hague
  • 2006: State gallery at the Upper Austrian State Museum, Linz
  • 2006: Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Vienna
  • 2006: Lausberg Gallery, Düsseldorf
  • 2008: Galerie am Stein, Schärding; St. Peter an der Sperr , Wiener Neustadt; Jünger Gallery, Baden
  • 2010: Galerie 422, Gmunden, Galerie Schmidt, Reith / Alpbachtal; Kunsthalle Nexus, Saalfelden; Künstlerhaus Vienna
  • 2011: Künstlerhaus, Vienna
  • 2012: Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz
  • 2013: EMB-Art, Vaduz
  • 2016: Salzburg Museum, Salzburg

Works in public collections

  • Albertina Vienna
  • Art Museum Bonn
  • Carinthia Museum of Modern Art
  • Art Forum Vienna
  • Museum Essl Collection Vienna
  • Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna
  • Museum der Moderne Salzburg
  • Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus / Suha
  • Museum Angerlehner, Thalheim / Wels
  • Lentos Museum, Linz
  • Collection of the Austrian National Bank, Vienna
  • Austrian Gallery Belvedere, Vienna
  • Lower Austrian State Museum, St. Pölten
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Admont Abbey

Publications (selection)

  • Jakob Gasteiger , Upper Austrian State Museum Linz 2006, Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz, ISBN 3-902414-27-8
  • "Jakob Gasteiger" Rupertinum, Museum der Moderne Salzburg "Salzburg 2002. ISBN 3-9501477-3-X
  • "Jakob Gasteiger. Works 1985-2010" Edition Serendipity 2010. Verlag für modern art Nuremberg, ISBN 978-3-86984-113-7

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jakob Gasteiger - Alfred Haberpointner. Between image and sculpture and Manfred Bockelmann "en passant" (May 9, 2017)
  2. ↑ Janicek, Christine: Jakob Gasteiger: Work 1985-2010 . Ed .: art project serendipity. Verlag für Moderne Kunst, 2010, ISBN 3-86984-113-3 , p. 184 .
  3. ↑ Culture Prize Gala in the Festspielhaus St. Pölten . OTS notification dated November 4, 2017, accessed November 4, 2017.
  4. ↑ LH Mikl-Leitner presented decorations to ten artists and cultural workers. In: APA-OTS. October 16, 2019, accessed November 2, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Gasteiger, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg