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WOLFGANG PAVLIK
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The Austrian painter Wolfgang Pavlik belongs to a generation of artists that redefines and reorganises painting. Pavlik develops in his work new compositional forms, as a reflex to apparent oppositions such as abstraction versus figuration. Wolfgang Pavlik has taken the image of unknown pictures from newspaper and own fotos created a series of portraits that are parenthetically titled: new Portraits. The first thing one notices about these persons is that they have been stripped of their sight, they have no eyes. The artist explains their absence as a means to force the viewer to look at the paintings and not the eyes. The viewer looks at faces that withhold from being identyfied by him. Their eyes are closed or hidden by means of a shade cast on them so as to shift the other parts of the face to the centre of attention. It’s a common feature in many of Pavlik’s pictures that a monocrome surface hides its objects in a way that sujet and surface change their places. In his architectural and landscape paintings the objects are partly even banished to the frame. Subject and theme, object and presentation are thus given a productive drive.

Selected shows: 2008 Linz, Museum Moderner Kunst Lentos, „Lichtspuren-Fotografie aus derSammlung“ (Katalog), Böheimkirchen/Vienna Artroom Collection Würth, "Cross-Painting" 2006 Vienna, artunited, «from a collection», 2005 Vienna, Galerie Steinek, „aus Neun“, 2004, Mannheim, Mannheimer Kunstverein R2, „different image“ (Katalog) 2003 Vienna, Galerie Sauruck, "Icons",Linz, Neue Galerie Linz , "Collection", 2001 Steyr Kunsthalle temp. Steyr, "Really“,2000 Turino, Galerie En Plein Air, Vienna, Jesuitenfoyer," zwei Portraits", 1997 Florenz, The European University Institute, "The Image of the Other" 1995 Reykjavik Living Art Museum.
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