Wolfgang Horwath
Born 1952 in Eisenstadt, Burgenland.
Wolfgang Horwath has his roots in graphics. In the great varietyy of his work - painting, drawing, set- and space-designing, you can make out graphics as his dominating feature.
His work, either drawing or painting, consists in different layerings, getting depth and three-dimensionality without using perspective. For him drawing means, beside dynamism of stroke, structuring the surface by glueing on, stripping of, tearing up, writing over ... according to the principle of destruction and construction - building and destroying. The use of writing is both o graphic-aesthetic element and a metapher for the contents.
(Quotation : Dr. Dieter Rehm, art-historian)
Personal-Exhibitions (selection):
1977 Gallery Quellenhof, Bad Tatzmannsdorf, Burgenland
1982 Kulturzentrum Mattersburg, Burgenland
1992 "Leichenschmaus del'arte" - Open House Oberwart (OHO), Burgenland
1994 "Gedankenblätter" - Gallery Gerulata, Bratislava
1997 ORF-Centre (Austrian Broadcasting Company) Eisenstadt, Burgenland
1999 "Malerei und Grafik" - Cselleymühle, Burgenland
2000 Gallery "Stiegenhaus" Munich
Group-Exhibitions (selection):
1997 and 1999 Graphic-Biennal Udine, Italy
1999 hansagi Muzeum, Mosonmagyarovar, Hungry
2000 Gallery Mouratti, Vienna
2002 Cite International Des Arts, Paris and Gallery RAAM, Seoul, Korea
Set-and Space-Designing on the OPEN-HOUSE-OBERWART (OHO), Folk-Theater in the Outskirts from Vienna, the Concert-House Vienna and the Castle of Güssing, Burgenland.
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