Johann Feilacher

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Johann Feilacher (born June 6, 1954 in Villach ) is an Austrian sculptor, psychiatrist, art curator and museum director.

Life

After graduating from high school in Villach , Johann Feilacher studied medicine at the University of Graz from 1972 to 1978 and received his doctorate in November 1978. med. univ., In 1986 he completed his training as a specialist in psychiatry and neurology and took over the management of the Center for Art and Psychotherapy in Gugging from Leo Navratil . He renames it the House of Artists and runs the house with the ideology that every artist with special needs should have the same rights and opportunities as his healthy colleagues.

Painted east facade House of Artists, Maria Gugging, Austria.

As an art curator and museum director, he curates over 150 exhibitions by Gugging artists in museums and galleries nationally and internationally and is the author and editor of publications on the subject of Art Brut .

In 1994 Feilacher founded the first limited company with exclusively managed artists and a little later, in 1997, the Gugging Artists' Gallery was the first gallery owned by managed persons.

In 2000 he took over the House of Artists from the Gugging State Psychiatric Clinic and set up the social welfare facility SHE, House of Artists . The project Integrative Cultural Center Gugging allows Feilacher 2001, the restoration of the former children's home in Gugging, he for Art / Brut Center Gugging made where now the Galerie Gugging , an open studio, the private foundation - Gugging artists and the museum gugging are .

In order to be able to build up a permanent collection of Gugging art, Johann Feilacher established the private foundation - Artists from Gugging in 2003 .

Since 2006 Feilacher has been the artistic director and curator of the museum gugging, which he founded .

As an artist, Johann Feilacher first worked as a painter and since the eighties as a sculptor. His main material is wood, which he processes for indoor and outdoor sculptures up to monumental formats. He expands his materials to a combination of wood and steel as well as plastic (crystal-clear castings made of polyurethane) and builds installations from different materials and colored pieces of wood.

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In 1988, the first large-scale sculptures were created in England and the USA in Socrates Sculpture Park, New York City. Feilacher created what is currently the world's largest wooden sculpture in 1997 in the Sculpture Park in Saint Louis , Missouri, USA.

The sculptor Johann Feilacher uses wood because the organic, evolving material seems to him particularly suitable for the digital age, and thus he creates a counterpoint to the artificial world. The use of dead trees with parts that have already decayed, as a symbol of the present, of transience, but also the reuse of apparently unusable, is an artistic concern of his.

Solo exhibitions

  • 1993: Unart Gallery, Villach (AT)
    • Otto Nagl Gallery, Wedding Art Office, Berlin (DE)
  • 1994: Kouros Gallery, New York (USA)
  • 1996: Galerie Judith Walker, Klagenfurt (AT)
  • 1997: Hunt Gallery, Art Dep. Webster University, Saint Louis, MO (USA)
    • Toscana Park, Gmunden (AT)
  • 1998: Galerie Freihausgasse, Villach (AT)
  • 1999: The New Gallery, Art Dep. University of Miami, Miami (USA)
  • 2002: City Museum St. Pölten (AT)
  • 2005: Galerie Chobot, Vienna (AT)
  • 2006: Kunsthaus Nexus, Saalfelden (AT)
  • 2007: Museum Lignorama, Ried (AT)
  • 2010: Museum Humanum , Fratres (AT)
  • 2011: Gerersdorf Open Air Museum (AT)
  • 2012–2013: Werner Berg Museum , Bleiburg
  • 2013: Galerie GrenzART, Hollabrunn (AT)

Group exhibitions

  • 1994: Socrates Sculptures Park, New York, (USA)
    • Kouros Galleries Sculpture Park, Ridgefield, CT (USA)
  • 1996: Museum of Modern Art, Pretoria (ZA)
  • 1998: Galerie Dauphin, Singapore (ID)
    • Kunsthaus Kunstbacka, Gothenburg (S)
  • 2002: Lower Austrian State Museum , St. Pölten (AT)
  • 2005: Carlsten Gallery, the Noel Fine Arts Center, Stevens Point (USA)
    • Three Sinks Gallery, Saint Louis (USA)
  • 2008: Museum of Modern Art Carinthia , Klagenfurt (AT)
    • Museum of the Nötscher District, Nötsch (AT)
  • 2010: Nave Gallery, Grugliasco, Turin (I)
  • 2011: Museum Liaunig , Neuhaus (AT)
    • Gallery Walker, Weitzelsdorf, Carinthia (AT)
  • 2012: Galerie Nothburga, Innsbruck (AT)
  • 2013: Galerie Freihausgasse, Villach, Carinthia (AT)
    • Kro Art Contemporary, Vienna (AT)
    • Gallery Walker, Weitzelsdorf, Carinthia (AT)

Public Works

  • Laumeier Sculpture Park, Saint Louis, MO (USA)
  • Socrates Sculpture Park, New York (USA)
  • Arte Sella, Borgo Valsugana (I)
  • Kouros Sculpture Center, Ridgefield, CT (USA)
  • University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point (USA)
  • Forma Viva, Kostanjevica na Krki (SI)
  • City of Villach (AT)
  • Justice Center Leoben (AT)
  • Lower Austrian State Collection, St. Pölten (AT)
  • Sculpture Park Rosental, Carinthia (AT)
  • Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus (AT)
  • Museum of Modern Art Carinthia, Klagenfurt (AT)

In July 2019, a Joseph Fröhlich memorial designed by Johann Feilacher was unveiled in Altaussee in front of the Amtshaus in the park . The monument is a bronze cast, a red fool's hat hovers over a concrete base with the inscription SEMPER FRÖHLICH, NUMQUAM TRAURIG .

Publications (selection)

literature

  • Angelika Bäumer: Wood. Johann Feilacher. Sculptures. Edition Braus / Wachter, Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 3-89904-103-8 .
  • Silvie Aigner: Woods II. Feilacher. Sculptures. Residence, St. Pölten 2013, ISBN 978-3-7017-3311-8 .

Honor

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Johann Feilacher: Art from Gugging from 1970 to the present . In: Nina Ansperger, Johann Feilacher (Ed.): Brain feeling.! Art from Gugging from 1970 to the present . 1st edition. Residence, Salzburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-7017-3450-4 .
  2. ^ Johann Feilacher ( English ) Socrates Sculpture Park. Retrieved May 21, 2019.
  3. ↑ Redwood I ( English ) LAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK. Retrieved May 21, 2019.
  4. ↑ Fröhlich monument inaugurated in Bad Aussee. Joseph Fröhlich Festival 2019. September 5, 2019, accessed September 7, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Joseph Fröhlich Monument inaugurated. September 2, 2019, accessed September 7, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Decoration of Honor for ten cultural workers , APA-OTS , accessed on February 15, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Feilacher, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor, psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Villach