Klaus Mosettig

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Klaus Mosettig (* 1975 in Graz ) is an Austrian artist who works primarily in the media of drawing and extended sculpture .

life and work

Klaus Mosettig attended the painting master's school at the HTBLVA Graz-Ortweinschule from 1993 to 1994 and studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1994 to 2000 under Bruno Gironcoli and from 1998 to 1999 at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie , Amsterdam.

He developed his working method from an expanded concept of sculpture with an emphasis on the temporal dimension, for example in early work with 16 mm film . As a result Mosettig found to forms that the procedural aspect of sculpture or plastic take in the view. With living plants and animals as material, Mosettig's system shows itself in a field of tension between chance and control, nature and art, process and work, stringent in the conception and at the same time with a strong sensual-physical, if not to say manual component.

The medium of drawing in its various forms is always of great importance in Mosettig's art. Since the Pradolux exhibition in 2009 at the Vienna Secession , it has been at the center of his work and its public perception. For Signum of Mosettig mark practice a method which indiscriminately apply to different types of templates and which has two constants was: a slide projection that the actual design represents the drawing, and the systematic transmission of the photograph with pencil hatching in gray values. The artist regularly works in series and often uses artistic means such as repetitions or reflections. The selected templates cover a wide field and range from prominent works of art (by Jackson Pollock , Josef Albers , Käthe Kollwitz and others) to deposits of dust and dirt ( projector portraits , 2008/09), and scribble drawings of their own daughter ( Informel , 2014-2017 ) to photos of the lunar surface ( Apollo 11 , 2008/09) and a tabletop in Greece on which refugees' fingerprints were taken ( Handwriting , 2017/18). Objectively diverse and emotionally diverse, all of these finds become visual facts of equal importance, the material for Mosettig's contemplative- manual translation work. With all consistency in the approach, different horizons and reflections on medium and material, painting and drawing, invention and appropriation, unique and repetition , image and reality, moment and duration, closeness and distance open up depending on the series of works .

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Awards

  • 2005: Walter Koschatzky Art Prize
  • 2007: Prize of the state of Tyrol at the Austrian graphic competition, Innsbruck
  • 2010: State grant for fine arts, Austria
  • 2010: Promotion Prize of the City of Vienna
  • 2010: Prof. Hilde Goldschmidt Prize
  • 2014: Great Art Prize of the City of Graz

Publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Elisabeth Priedl: Mosettig, Klaus. In: De Gruyter General Artists Dictionary on db.gegruyter.com. Retrieved May 17, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Rolf Wienkötter: Klaus Mosettig . In: Sabine Haag, Jasper Sharp, Gudrun Swoboda (eds.): Klaus Mosettig - The David Plates . Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-99020-198-5 .
  3. ^ Günther Holler-Schuster: Klaus Mosettig. Wooden sculpture. In: Neue Galerie Graz, Joanneumsviertel on museum-joanneum.at. Retrieved May 17, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Klaus Mosettig. Pradolux. In: Association of Visual Artists Vienna Secession on secession.de. Retrieved May 17, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Jürgen Tabor: Klaus Mosettig. Nature morte. June 25 - August 15, 2010. In: kunstraumdornbirn.at. Retrieved May 17, 2020 .
  6. ^ Exhibitions. Past. 2011. In: modernart.net. Retrieved May 17, 2020 (English).
  7. ^ Anne Katrin Feßler: light hatching instead of nature. Klaus Mosettig's exhibition "Withdrawal" at Hofstätter Projects in Vienna. In: derstandard.at. Oscar Bronner, April 12, 2015, accessed May 17, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Sabrina Möller: Klaus Mosettig. Interview. In: Parnass art magazine on parnass.de. Silvie Aigner, March 12, 2015, accessed on May 17, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Klaus Mosettig. Handwriting. In: kunsthalle-darmstadt.de. Kunstverein Darmstadt e. V., accessed on May 17, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Klaus Mosettig - The David Plates. In: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien on khm.at. Retrieved May 17, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Mosettig, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz