Manfred Erjautz

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Manfred Erjautz (* 1966 in Graz ) is an Austrian visual artist .

life and work

Sculptural acupuncture (2017), on the facade of the Academic Gymnasium Graz , until at least August 2020
Description of the installation by Manfred Erjautz on the facade of the "Academic", Graz (2017)

Manfred Erjautz studied from 1985 to 1990 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Bruno Gironcoli . Erjautz is a member of the Vienna Secession and Forum Stadtpark .

Manfred Erjautz lives in Vienna and works with a gallery owner (2020).

Erjautz's work negotiates the experiences of the individual within constantly interwoven and mutually irritating areas such as inside and outside, private and public, and undertakes compensatory attempts to establish a position of one's own person in these fields and thus counteract any established excessive demands.

By blurring and at the same time defining spatial boundaries, between the real and the fictional, Manfred Erjautz thematizes the transitory nature of familiar situations and feelings and exposes them as temporary agreements. The confrontation with the figures, both close to life and remote, leads to an intermediate level that reveals the gap between the private and the collective. His universe resembles simulated systems - mythologies and other substitute realities - which exemplify the mechanisms of society.

Famous works

  • Fountain sculpture The exploration of permanence / Searching into permanence , vulgo Schneemann (2005), made of white marble in the courtyard of the seminary, Graz , Bürgergasse 2.
  • Sculptural acupuncture , installation of three discarded street lights in Graz on the facade of the Academic Gymnasium Graz , Tummelplatz, 2017 until at least September 2020. The fastening was carried out using a 2 cm thick steel plate and 7 M40 screws on the 60 cm thick wall behind, which had been freed from plaster the blackboard of a classroom.
  • The (vulgo :) Jesus watch was created in 2012-2016. The torso and legs of a wooden crucifix figure from the 19th century turn as hour hands, the arms behind (!) As - shorter - minute and second hands. The continuously running clockwork in a cube-shaped box with about 55 cm side length is driven by an electric motor and is precisely controlled according to the time zone for Central Europe. The gearbox runs in an oil bath, balancing weights in the factory compensate for the weight of the pointer. The axis of the hour hand, which protrudes about 70 cm from the movement, lies coaxially in the innermost part of the other two hand axes and, with a diameter of 30 mm, transmits the greatest torque and bending moment. When the clock was shown at the invitation of Bishop Hermann Glettler in 2019 in the hospital church in Innsbruck, it sparked controversy about the cut up figure of Christ.

Recognitions

  • 1992 Chicago Scholarship
  • 1994 award for fine arts of the provincial capital Graz
  • 1995 State grant for fine arts
  • 1993–1999 federal studio
  • 1999 Otto Mauer Prize
  • 2008 Humanic Prize as part of the Styrian Promotion Prize

Exhibitions

  • 1988 Changes of Sculpture, New Gallery at the Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz; Description files, Galerie Grita Insam , Vienna
  • 1989 Young Scene Vienna, Secession, Vienna; Trigon '89, steirischer herbst '89, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
  • 1990 Austrian sculpture, Erste Allgemeine Generali Foundation, Secession, Vienna
  • 1991 Un Musée en Voyage, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyon; Sensuality, sensibility, purism, Convent des Cordeliers, Festival de Paris; Art, Europe, Art Association in Hamburg; Young Austrians, Szombathely / Keptar; Austrian Gallery at the Belvedere, Vienna
  • 1992 Transformation, Mestna Galeria, Ljubljana; 3rd Istanbul International Biennale
  • 1993 La coestistenza dell 'arte, Biennale di Venezia, Venice; Confrontations, Museum of Modern Art, Ludwig Foundation, Vienna
  • 1994 International Biennial for Printmaking, Zagreb; styrian window, New Gallery at the Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
  • 1995 Sculpture 2, Künstlerhaus, Graz; En Passant ..., Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Kunstverein in Hamburg; Self construction, Museum of the 20th Century, Vienna
  • 1996 beyond art, Ludwig Múzeum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest; State Art Prize Styria, New Gallery at the State Museum Joanneum, Graz; Electric chair, Secession, Vienna
  • 1997 A la chinoise, state of transition, Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg; Never mind ***, Forum Stadtpark, Graz
  • 1998 Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome; Disidentico maschile femminile e oltre, Palazzo Branciforte, Palermo and Museo di Castelnuovo, Naples; Freeze Frame, University of South Florida, Contemporary Art Museum (USFCAM), Tampa; erjautzkienzer, Mezzanine exhibition room, Vienna (with Michael Kienzer)
  • 1999 As the matter stands, LA International Biennal, Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles; Catchment area, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Johanneum, Graz; 6/7, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík; Empty space caused by production, Galerie Eugen Lendl, Graz; Kvaliplasztik, Szombathely Art Gallery
  • 2000 Lives and works in Vienna, Living and working in Vienna, Kunsthalle Wien; Photography - the collection, Neue Galerie Linz
  • 2001 Days of hope, Biennale die Venezia, Venice; Connecting worlds, Washington; Shelter, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna
  • 2002: ME / WE, Secession, Vienna; Time, Space & Motion, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
  • 2003 M_ARS - Art and War, Neue Galerie Graz; Out of breath, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden; Sculpture 03, Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery , Salzburg; Shelter (overall), Galerie Eugen Lendl, Graz
  • 2004 100 instructions, Kunsthalle Wien; Colored sculpture, Rupertinum, Salzburg
  • 2005 Icono Cluster, Nikolaus Ruzicska Gallery, Salzburg; At the same time, the gallery of the city of Villingen / Schwenningen and Museum der Moderne, Salzburg; Light art from artificial light, ZKM Karlsruhe; De Sculptura, Nikolaus Ruzicska Gallery in the Max Gandolph Library, Salzburg
  • 2006 In the middle of the (w) hole, Galerie Eugen Lendl, Graz; War of the Buttons, Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim; Sculptures and sculptures, Lentos Art Museum, Linz; Rundumschlag, Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg
  • 2007 War of the buttons, Kunsthalle Århus and Landesgalerie at the OÖ Landesmuseum, Linz; Baby body, Kunsthalle Darmstadt; black & white, Lentos Art Museum Linz; Sculptures, art projects at Kalsdorf Castle; Gestures of infinity, Minoriten-Galerie, steirischer herbst '07, Graz; (W) here is my mind, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna
  • 2008 Private view, Nikolaus Ruzicska Gallery, Salzburg; Under Pain of Death, ACI, New York; MMKK international match, Carinthia Museum of Modern Art, Klagenfurt; System Mensch, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg; To Gironcoli, a Homage II, Gironcoli Museum Herberstein Castle, St. Johann bei Herberstein; Lichtspuren / Traces of Light, Lentos Art Museum Linz; Parts apart, picture room and art library of the city of Munich
  • 2009 Against the day, Zacherlfabrik, Vienna; Tower of the century, Landesmuseum Joanneum Künstlerhaus Graz; Crossing point Linz, Lentos Art Museum Linz; Oral History, Hainfeld Castle; Text picture MMIX, steirischer herbst 09, Graz; Repertory II, Galerie Eugen Lendl, Graz
  • 2010 Surface surface as a principle, Landesgalerie am OÖ Landesmuseum, Linz; Prometheus, Minorite Culture, Graz; Relics. Profane-sacred image discourses, Minoriten Kultur, Graz; Triennale Linz 1.0, Lentos Art Museum Linz; It's not easy being green, Kunsthaus Muerz, Mürzzuschlag; Expositur, Rathausgalerie Kunsthalle, Munich; Body codes. Images of people from the collection, Museum der Moderne, MdM Salzburg
  • 2011 How things are connected, Nikolaus Ruzicska Gallery, Salzburg; Puppet projection figures in art, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden; 1 + 1 + 1 = 1 Trinity, Cultural Center at the Minorites, Graz; about things, Kunsthaus Mürzzuschlag; From angels and villains, Kunsthalle Krems; The Nightingale and the Rose, Kunsthalle Munich; Modern: Suicide of Art ?, Neue Galerie, Graz; The Collection-11 Interventions, Art Museum Lentos Linz
  • 2012 wearing skirts, Museum der Moderne, MdM Salzburg; Gold, Belvedere, Vienna; Gravity's rainbow / The ends of the parable, Zacherlfabrik, Vienna; The collection, 21er Haus, Vienna; European Glass Context 2012, Bornholm Art Museum, Gudhjem; NO TIME. Exhausted Self / Unlimited Ability, 21er Haus, Vienna; The Naked Man, Lentos Art Museum, Linz
  • 2013 10 years of Lentos, Lentos Art Museum Linz; From space to surface, Liaunig Museum, Neuhaus; Sampling, Ossiach Abbey; Un bonhomme de neige en été, Atelier 340 Muzeum, Brussels; The man - naked, Schloss Britz Berlin
  • 2014 Against the Day, Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art Vienna, Vienna; Human Dignity, MUSA, Vienna; The Brno House of Arts, Brno; Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo; Les Plaisirs Démodés, Nikolaus Ruzicska Gallery, Salzburg; ME / WE, Breitensee business park; TBA 21, Vienna
  • 2015 wow, woven? Künstlerhaus Graz; reliqte, reloaded, Minoriten Kultur, Graz; Illuminated writing, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg; Trapped in the Present, Belvedere Vienna; Under the weight of light, Belvedere Vienna
  • ...
  • 2020: Jesus clock, Forum Stadtpark, Graz

Web links

Commons : Manfred Erjautz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Text (excerpt) for the exhibition ME / WE, Manfred Erjautz, © Secession, Vienna 2002.
  2. ↑ Excerpt from a text by Dr. Gisela Fischer, Albertina, Vienna 2010
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Hidden treasures and curiosities 1. Out and about with Reinhard A. Sudy. Travel panorama. December 21, 2012, accessed January 2, 2016. - With text on the plaque on the sculpture. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.reisepanorama.at
  4. ↑ http://www.streetsofgraz.at/doc.ccc?d=2915&x=ABCDEFGH Modern art in a strict shell. Streets of Graz. Reports. Andrea Dunst, September 2008, accessed January 2, 2016. - On the history of the renovation of the seminary and the removal of cars from the courtyard.
  5. ^ Conversation between Johannes Muhr and Manfred Erjautz, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, 23 August 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Erjautz, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz