16 x 6 cm
16 x 6 cm
16 x 6 cm
16 x 6 cm
16 x 6 cm
As someone creating art today, I find myself in a time where, due to the internet, there is no mainstream anymore. There is no question, whether art should be analog or digital, abstract or figurative. The question, I would say, is no longer about art, it is about the perceiving of art.
The question is: “Is the perceiving act of the aesthetical, in the domain of the figurativ, or is the way we perceive art, much more abstract than that. Could an aesthetic experience actually be the collapse of the mind-made separation of subject and object and could it be that the aesthetic experience is not pound to art at all.
Could it be that art is not an object to be perceived, but that art is a way of perceiving, that can be triggered by an object. Is this what Joseph Beuys meant, when he talked about The Expanded Concept of Art?
Or Paul Cézanne when he said: “The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.”
29th.jan.2025 / Porto / m.holzer
black and white - 2025
Figures reduced to their verticality, the world reduced to its horizontality. By breaking down appearance to its essence, I would like to say: “There is absolutely no difference, between who I am, and who I am not.”
The title "Satori" stands for a moment of spiritual enlightenment. It is this aesthetic moment — the moment when subject and object dissolve — that we refer to as “beautiful“. Technically, this series of images combines drawing, printmaking, painting, and collage by translating fast, radical drawings into slow, meditative paintings.
With this work I would like to point out that there are certain thoughts that we are no longer able to look at as thoughts.
“The reason why this painting and the thought of this painting are not the same, is the reason why you are not the one you believe to be.”
40 x 70cm
oil on canvas
“flowers“ - 2015
70 x 100 cm
graphite and oilstick on paper
The horizon line is depicted as a fold. The figures, reduced to vertical strokes. These pieces work in pairs: one in multiple colours and the other in blue.
150 x 90cm
oil and acrylic on canvas
RYGBs, stands for red, yellow, green, blues, and it is a continuous series of coloured pencil drawings, that I have been doing since my early days at the academy (2016). Over time, several of these images have been translated into prints.
horizon series #3 //
diploma 2022 at semperdepot
academy of fine arts vienna
“passeio alegre”
A5 - pencil on paper
2021
tests and tryouts
16,5 x 9,5 cm
drypoint
According to the western worldview: that which knows inhabits a body, perceiving an outside world.
Rather than asking: “Is the depicted abstract or figurative?”, I would like to ask: “Is the perceiving element really figurative, or is it in fact abstract?”
The first element determines the collection of things, that you will end up holding in your hand, which is tightly clenching every little piece of a collection, where no element must be missing.
Every day a different variation.
Rundgang 2020
“the obvious and the unexpected“
It starts with an empty book and a pencil stroke on the first page. The page gets turned and another stroke appears on the second. Page by page I go through the whole book until I arrive at the last. Then I go back to page one and react to what was done before.
What happens is the obvious and the unexpected. - 2022
“politics never made so much sense“
At a roundabout I saw these paintings. They were political banners which someone, probably overnight, painted over. Even though the intention was to censor a political message, something of a deeper meaning was created. photographed in 2021
bureau veritas //
exhibition - vienna
Pictures from an exhibition that took place in 2019, in a cargo ship container. The container was set up behind the atelier spaces of the academy at Engerthstraße. Every week, over the course of 9 month, a different exhibition took place.
Organised by the class of Christian Schwarzwald
horizon series #2 //
the illusion of separation
This work deals with the topic of how philosophical convictions influence political actions. The separation of subject and object for example, resulting in borders between countries. This Series was created in Vienna, spring 2019.
horizon series #1 //
slade series
This series was created during my time at the Slade School of Fine Art, London in 2018, while I visited the affiliate painting programme.
These are some pencil drawings made in Austria, Italy, France, Spain and Portugal.
gruppe 1 // exhibition - vienna
In 2017 the former class of Gunter Damisch organised an exhibition room. Every week over the course of 9 month, there would be a different exhibition taking place.
When the separation of the perceiver and the perceived dissolves. When the subject reveals itself in the seeming object. When who we are and what the world is, stand as one.
That is art. That is beauty.