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1966
born in Innsbruck
1988-89
School of arts and crafts Graz, master school of painting with Gerhard Loyen
1989-93
Studies of sculpting with Prof. Bruno Gironcoli at the Academy of Visual Arts
Vienna
1993
Recommendation of purchase at the Förderungspreis für zeitgenössische Kunst
Steiermark, Neue Galerie, Graz
1999
Scholarship of work at the Förderungspreis für zeitgenössische Kunst
Steiermark, Neue Galerie, Graz
2001
Förderungspreis der Stadt Graz für Bildende Kunst (Price of sponsorship of the city Graz for Visual Arts)
2003
Kunstpreis der Diözese Graz-Seckau für zeitgnössische Bildende Kunst (Price of art of the
diocese of Graz-Seckau for contemporary visual art)
lives and works in Graz and Vienna
Markus Wilfling´s works are based on a precise observation of given reality, its phenomena and optical qualities. In doing this the focuses his attention on everyday things that are usually scarcely noticed or not noticed at all, like on everyday objects in their capacity to throw shadows or be reflected. His aesthetic interest in actual reality is linked to a desire to avoid connecting his artistic realisations as individual creations to the subjectivity of the artist. Phenomena of the world of objects are taken to an artistic level in a non-mani-pulative way, free from mental bias and psychological motives.
In his installations and objects, the artist turns everyday situations into ambivalent ones, so that they hold your gaze, i.e. they slow down what is usually a cursory and automatic perception process. He consciously avoids the impression of something staged or artificial; the phenomenon of objects throwing shadows or virtually replicating themselves in mirrors is one that corresponds to people´s everday experience. Irritation results from the substantialisation of the virtual and cursory by Wilfling´s real-object replication of chosen articles, and here a transformation of relations from normal into aesthetic occurs. The visible leaves the world of natural phenomena and enters a word of art.
Citation: Kerstin Braun, „Markus Wilfling andersartiges gleichartiges" – exhibi-tion catalogue „Die Verabredung", Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz. Curator: Peter Weibel; Vienna 2002
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