solo exhibition in the kunsthaus muerz

PHANTASMAGORIA
Let’s call it bizarre, strange – the strategy to use a title as an extensive metaphor for the phraseable universe. In the celebration of secrets this method serves as orientation, it almost seems to be an unexplicable symbol for an equally unexplicable world. The protagonist of this artistic action obviously arouses interest in dramatic phenomenons, enthusiastic wanderlust, dreamed lonliness and shades of memories with his phantasmagoric pictures. This is to add to the mystery of art another one. Like any other appearance the phantasmagory describes the ceaseless rhythm between the past and now, leads us continually to the inner world and at the same time makes it possible to think about the future, which is one of the most pleasant events for all, even if it’s not the rescue for all.
artepari, Juli 2009
 
Bruno Wildbach
Bruno Wildbach was born on the 26^th of November 1964 in Eibiswald in Western Styria. From 1985 to 1992 he studied history of art at the Karl-Franzens university and later architecture at the Technical university Graz.
In his works we continually find constellations, which signalize interferences of different levels of reality and a varying compilation of diverging fragments – from the reference of the presence to the ornament and finally to pulsating abstract formations (…) Realistically drawn portraits of his friends characterize the repertory of figures just as much as famous characters which are transferred into the pictorial world by master illustrations from the medial fund. Partly they step back in their presence, entrapped in a netting of light, partly they dominate the space, being positioned in the first image plane. But even then their appearance isn’t the only reality in the image. If one tries to follow up on the complex appendages of the artwork, the question of the degree of reality and of the validity of a scheme of composition – which is characterized by a constant fragmentation and newly formatted merging – will appear over and over again.
(Quotes: Werner Fenz „Diskontinuierliche Malerei“, Catalogue: Bruno Wildbach. Humansize)
At the exhibition Ursula Horvath speaks

Opening of the exhibition: Thursday, September 17th 2009, 19.30 o’clock
Length of exhibition: Oktober 11th 2009
Opening hours: Thursday - Saturday: 10 - 18 o’clock, Sunday: 10 - 16 o’clock

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