Monika Fioreschy

Monika Fioreschy (born April 4, 1947 in Auer in South Tyrol) is an Austrian artist who developed a new technique based on classic weaving art , which she calls the transfusion image and the silicon icon .

life and work

Monika Fioreschy is the daughter of the South Tyrolean politician Robert von Fioreschy . After finishing school, Monika Fioreschy began to study painting and weaving technology in Vienna in the master class of Grete Rader-Soulek and with Emilio Vedova in Salzburg at the University of Applied Arts , then still a college . Even during her studies she created tapestries with abstract imagery, but she was not satisfied with sticking to traditional weaving art. After graduating in 1971, she experimented with unusual materials in order to find new ways of expressing the ancient weaving technique. As an observer during a heart operation, she finally came across the blood transfusion tubes made of silicone , which should have a lasting impact on her work.

Since 1993 she has been replacing woolen threads with silicone tubes, radically transforming conventional picture weaving. Building on this, she developed the new art form of the "transfusion image" by using a disposable syringe to initially fill the silicone tube fabric with blood, then later with chlorophyll (also a "vital sap") and color. Based on medical blood transfusions, she consciously takes up the images of the Christian sacrifice mythology, but the positive aspects of life support and life foundation are in the foreground. In doing so, she succeeded in finding her way out of traditional textile art and loading the resulting “web image” with additional content regardless of its formal language. The fabric no longer only has a passive, purely image-bearing function, but also dictates the shape and structure of the image and takes part in the creation of the image itself. With this new technique, the artist achieves spatial, structural and color effects.

Some authors, including Wieland Schmied , Friedhelm Mennekes, Bazon Brock, Otto Breicha , Hilmar Hoffmann , Dieter Ronte , Peter Weiermeier , Ludwig Tavernier , and others have already dealt with their work.

Fioreschy's works are represented in solo exhibitions and participations in the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Lentos Art Museum Linz, the Museion Bozen, the Ludwig Museum Koblenz, the collection of the European Patent Office in Munich and the Austrian Embassy in Berlin.

Fioreschy is married to the heart surgeon Felix Unger and the mother of the architect Stephan Unger and the designer Matthäus Unger. She has lived and worked in Salzburg since 1985 and is a founding member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts . In 2011 she received the Golden Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria .

Work classification

Early painting
Tapestries
Color transfusion images
Blood transfusion pictures
Chlorophyll transfusion pictures
Sil icons
Strip-cut collage
Oil cuts

bibliography

2017 Boesner Kunst Welten 4
2016 Bazon Brock, editor, “Strip-Cut-Collage”, thought fields, Bazon Brock: “Color weather and psycho-climate. The picture as a bed in the garden of art ”. Pictures are accompanied by lyrisms by Bazon Brock. "Ora et Labora - Liberation from idolatry"
2014 Friedhelm Mennekes, editor, "Interwoven Energy", Edition Jürgen B. Tesch, Hirmer Verlag ISBN 978-3-7774-2243-5
2012 3rd MediationsBiennale NIEPOJMOWALNE / the unknown, International Art Biennale, Poznan, Poland
2012 20 years Ludwig Museum Koblenz, Ludwig Museum Revue 1992/2012, article: Transformation Beate Reifenscheid, director, page 104
2011 Ludwig Tavernier, Beate Reifenscheid (ed.): Werke / Works Transformation 1969-2011, exhibition catalog Ludwig Museum Koblenz, Weimar 2011
Gudrun Weinzierl: "Monika Fioreschy, from tapestry to silicone" in Parnassus: art and culture magazine, issue 4/2011
2007 Wieland Schmied: Silicon and Cristal Tissue, exhibition catalog Cultural Palace Sharjah, UAE
2005 Wieland Schmied: A Bundle of Energies-About the Work of Monika Fioreschy, Open Heart Silicon Tissue Exhibition Catalog Maribor and Ljubljana
2003 Anne Marie Koppenwallner, Light Dynamics, Parnass: Art and Culture Magazine, Issue 3/2003, p. 168
2002 Ludwig Tavernier (Ed.): Studies in european culture. Vera Hübl: Monika von Fioreschy, Bildwebereien, Weimar ISBN 3-89739-345-X
2001 Peter Weiermair: Rehau-Art exhibition catalog, world fabric
1999 Doris Esser: Salzburger Nachrichten, For the weekend: Living and being - farewell and departure, visual arts. February 6th
1998 Eugen Biser: "Talking Pictures: About the Transfusion Pictures by Monika Fioreschy", in: Möde, Erwin (Hg): An-Think. Festgabe for Eugen Biser, Graz / Vienna / Cologne 1998, pp. 483–487
1997 Wolfgang Becker: Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen, blood transfusion pictures
1996 Bazon Brock: Hour of Art, "Ora et Labora" - "Liberation from idolatry", St. Bonifaz exhibition, Munich
1996 Doris Esser, Salzburger Nachrichten, For the weekend, Leben Today: “Under the skin”. 8th June
1996 Eugen Biser: “Talking Pictures”, in: Luxemburger Wort, die Warte, Perspectives, May 2, 46 annee nummero 15/1769
1995 Fibertals, Vol. 22 No. 2 Publication.
1995 Dieter Ronte, Transfusion Images, “Spontaneous and Reflected”, European Academy of Sciences and Arts
1994 Otto Breicha: "Novel, yes, downright innovative": Parnass art and culture magazine, issue 2/94, p. 24
1991 Wieland Schmied, Otto Breicha, Matthias Boeckl, Prestl Verlag, Munich, tapestries, exhibition catalog Stadtkino Salzburg

Solo exhibitions

2020 Bremen, St. Stephani, "Cardinal Points" with Friedhelm Mennekes
2017 Salzburg, Stadtgalerie Lehen, "Strip-Cut-Collage"
2017 Salzburg, Galerie Ropac, book presentation: “Strip-Cut-Collage” with Bazon Brock
2014 Salzburg, Galerie Ropac, book presentation: "Interwoven Energy" with Friedhelm Mennekes
2011 Koblenz, Ludwig Museum
2009 Munich, Heufelder Gallery
2007 Sharjah, UAE, Cultural Palace Sharjah
2006 Linz, Leonding Galerie Zauner
2005 Ljubljana, Mestna Galerija. Maribor, Razstavni Salon Rotovi
2003 Salzburg, City Gallery Miralbellgarten. Linz, Leonding, Zauner Gallery. Koblenz, KIK art in the clinic
2002 Passau, Museum of Modern Art, Wörlen Foundation. Berlin, Art Forum of the Austrian Embassy. Salzburg, Deutsche Bank. Bonn, Remagen-Rolandseck, European Cultural Center
2001 Rehau, Rehau-Art opening exhibition
2000 Munich, Kunstbuncker Tumulka
1999 Jerusalem, The Jerusalem Center for the Performing Arts, Sherover-Foyer Theater: Teddy Kollek opens Europa-Transfusion
1997 Aachen, Ludwig Forum for International Art
1996 Munich, St. Bonifaz, Hour of Art with Bazok Brock. Bolzano, Prisma Gallery. Innsbruck, Tyrolean art pavilion . Brussels, handover of the Europe transfusion to Jacques Santer
1995 Salzburg, Kollegienkirche. Salzburg, ACP gallery
1993 Washington, Austrian Embassy
1992 Munich, Gasteig. Neu-Isenburg Hilmar Hoffmann Greeting Fioreschy tapestry
1991 Salzburg, city cinema
1989 Salzburg, Rupertinum
1983 Innsbruck, art pavilion
1981 Innsbruck, Anna Column Gallery.
Bolzano: House of Culture Walther von der Vogelweide
1977 Vienna, Galerie Würthle

Participation in exhibitions

2012 Poznań, Poland, International Mediations Biennale, curator Friedhelm Mennekes
2012 Salzburg, City Gallery "The New Dimension Constructed"
2004 Linz, Lentos, Paulas Home
2001 Frankfurt / Main, mak.frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle: an exhibition in 4 chapters and 2 houses, blood: perspectives of art, power and politics, pathology
1998 Hangzhou, China, participation in the 1st West Lake Art Fair

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personal data
SURNAME	Fioreschy, Monika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fioreschy-Weinfeld, Monika von; Fioreschy, Monika von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian artist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 4, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH	Auer (South Tyrol)