Gerhard Kaiser exhibition

Digital image storage opens up a new world for Gerhard Kaiser. Everything is an image, everything is infinite and images are eternal. Before printing on plexiglass, paper and canvas in specific organizational systems, he compresses, overlaps, bends and edits the image data and kneads everything digitally. In other words, it goes the way of adding.

In the case of canvases, a painterly intervention is often added, as the painting REUSED in the current exhibition demonstrates. (Peter Liaunig)

The artist abstracts into the small and the large. The closer you get to the image and the further you move away from it, the more abstract it becomes.

Gerhard Kaiser’s works are in many ways a play of levels, because alongside the switching between writing and image, abstraction and representation, zooming in and out, there is a further ambiguity in the works. Often one or more frames containing images appear. An image in a painting has the function of emphasising something, accentuating it, pointing it out. In the context of Kaiser’s works, which work with a stream of images, it appears as a way to contain the images and make them tangible, to stop the visual overload.

Already Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Barbara Kruger, Gerhard Richter and many others have pointed to single media images. However, the presence of the image has changed since the early days of Pop Art, which dealt so intensely with this issue. It has only increased as a result of ongoing digital developments. Western societies are exposed to a constant barrage of images and have to find a way to deal with it. Gerhard Kaiser consciously deals with this flood of images and counteracts them with abstractions that develop their own visual laws. Nina Schedlmayer

Biography:

Gerhard Kaiser, 1955 was born in Bad Vöslau and works in Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn in Lower Austria. 1975-1980 studied at the Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien (University of Applied Arts Vienna), master course in painting and printmaking, prof. Oswald Oberhuber. Since 1976 he has exhibited in numerous exhibitions. His works can be found in major museums and private collections, including: the Albertina Museum, Vienna, Belvedere 21, Vienna, Liaunig Museum, Neuhaus, State Collections of Lower Austria, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Cultural Office of the City of Vienna, South Bohemian Gallery, Budĕjovice. Peter Liaunig Collection, Vienna, Kraus Collection, Chicago, USA, Hodin Collection, London, UK, Urban Collection, Waidhofen/Ybbs, Oberhuber Collection, Vienna, Rychlik Collection, Bad Vöslau, Hummel Collection, Vienna, Brunmair Collection, Vienna, Hofians Collection, Baden.

Curator: Peter Liaunig

Location: Danubiana, Čunovo, Slovakia
Date: from 25.02.2025 – 13.04.2025

Opening hours:

Monday – closed
Tuesday – Sunday from 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Admission:

Adults – 10 €
Family (2 adults and 2 students) – 20 €
Pensioners (over 62 years old) – 5 €
Students – 5 € Children (under 6 years old) – Free
Danubiana Club Members – Free
Disabled persons, persons over 75 years of age – Free

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