Laila Bakhtiar

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Laila Bachtiar (born August 31, 1971 in Vienna ) is an Austrian visual artist . Her oeuvre is assigned to the Art brut .

Life

Laila Bachtiar grew up in a family of musicians in Vienna ; the mother is a cellist. As a child, she exhibited autistic behaviors and attended special school. Her artistic talent was already apparent during her school days. From 1990 she was the first woman to come to the house of artists of the Art / Brut Center Gugging in Maria Gugging, Lower Austria, to draw regularly once a week , where she found temporary space for her work as artist in residence . Since 2003 she has been working as an artist in the open studio . Her works are part of international exhibitions and collections.

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Laila Bachtiar works with the medium of drawing . Her main theme is the animal world, but also depictions of people, plants or objects. Bachtiar builds delicate, graphic frameworks from lines with the drawing pencil, the fields of which, like building blocks, define the structures of the selected motifs, which she then intensifies with hatching . Sometimes the actual subject of the picture takes a back seat in this condensation. Some of the motifs are additionally provided with numerical codes, the meaning of which can only be deciphered by the artist herself. Bachtiar's first colored pencil drawings began in 1990, and pure pencil drawings from 2003 onwards.

Laila Bachtiar is considered the most successful member of the Gugging Art Center. From the holdings of the Viennese art collector Hannah Rieger, the exhibition Life in Art Brut 2017 in the Museumkrems showed several sheets from Bachtiar's early painterly work and some of her later black and white drawings. In the exhibition Flying high, curated by Ingried Brugger . Artists from Art Brut 2019 at the Kunstforum Wien were represented by Laila Bachtiar alongside international artists, including Aloïse Corbaz , Unica Zürn and Ida Maly . The exhibition was the first to be extensively devoted to women artists of Art brut in their diversity and their historical and contemporary dimensions.

Participation in exhibitions

  • 2006: Galerie Objet Trouvé , Paris.
  • 2007: Art from within - Art Brut in Austria , Museumsquartier , Freiraum / quartier 21, Vienna.
  • 2010: gugging from Vienna , Atelier Herenplaats, Rotterdam.
  • 2011: Homage to Art Brut , Galerie Rigassi, Bern.
  • 2012: HomeStory , Galerie Gaudens Pedit, Lienz; warm-up, Galerie Gaudens Pedit, Kitzbühel.
  • 2013: small formats.! , museum gugging , Maria Gugging; Artists from Gugging celebrate the Seasons, Gallery Judy A. Maslow, Chicago, USA; Summer retreat, Gaudens Pedit Gallery, Kitzbühel.
  • 2014: gugging masterpieces.! , Museum Gugging, Maria Gugging.
  • 2016: Dada and Art Brut , Galerie Gaudens Pedit, Kitzbühel.
  • 2017: Living in Art Brut. 123 Works from Hannah Rieger Collection , museumkrems .
  • 2017: Gugging! The crazed in the hot zone , Galerie Christian Berst, Paris
  • 2018–2021: brain feeling.! art from gugging from 1970 to the present , museum gugging, Maria Gugging.
  • 2018: Women in Art Brut? Musée art & marges, Brussels
  • 2019: Flying high: Artists of Art Brut , Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien .

literature

  • Ingried Brugger , Hannah Rieger, Veronika Rudorfer (eds.): Flying High. Artists of the Art Brut (accompanying volume to the exhibition of the same name), Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 2019, ISBN 978-3-86828-911-4
  • Nina Ansperger: Laila Bachtiar , in: brain feeling.! Art from Gugging from 1970 to the present , Residenz Verlag, Salzburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-7017-3450-4 , pp. 28–49
  • Florian Reese: Laila Bachtiar , in: Johann Feilacher (Ed.): Sovären. The House of Artists in Gugging , Edition Braus, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 978-3-89904-127-9 , pp. 214–223

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Florian Reese: Laila Bachtiar . In: Johann Feilacher (ed.): Sovären: The house of artists in Gugging . 1st edition. Edition Braus, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-89904-127-5 .
  2. ↑ a b Nina Ansperger: Laila Bachtiar . In: Nina Ansperger, Johann Feilacher (Ed.): Brain feeling! art from gugging from 1970 to the present . Residenz Verlag, Salzburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-7017-3450-4 , pp. 28-49 .
  3. ↑ Almuth Spiegler: Hannah Rieger: "Art brut is more than gugging", Die Presse , September 8, 2017
  4. ↑ Philip Pfleger: Women in the Brut Art. The outsiders of outsider art, ORF.at, October 13, 2018
  5. ↑ Angelica Bäumer: Flying High - Artists of Art Brut: Woman and Art, Freedom and Mystery , Artmagazine, February 25, 2019
  6. ↑ Nicole Buesing, Heiko Klaas: Raus aus dem Nischendasein , in: Dare Magazin (Hamburg), online March 6, 2019
  7. ↑ Almuth Spiegler: Hannah Rieger: "Art brut is more than gugging", Die Presse , September 8, 2017
  8. ^ Roman Gerold: A visit to the artists in Gugging , Der Standard, August 2, 2018
  9. ↑ Philip Pfleger: Women in the Brut Art. The outsiders of outsider art, ORF.at, October 13, 2018
  10. ↑ Angelica Bäumer: Flying High - Artists of Art Brut: Woman and Art, Freedom and Mystery , Artmagazine, February 25, 2019
  11. ↑ Nicole Buesing, Heiko Klaas: Raus aus dem Nischendasein , in: Dare Magazin (Hamburg), online March 6, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Bakhtiar, Laila
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna