One way or another?!

Ausstellung 01. - 22.12.2018

Unambiguous - Ambiguous. A matter of perspective.

There is always some truth to clichés.
Dr. Gregory House

In December 2018, BURN-IN invites you to a fantastic journey into the pictorial and word worlds of painter & graphic artist Petra Traxler-Pilgram and shows current works of the Austrian artist in the solo exhibition So oder so?! (One way or another?!)

Skillfully, Traxler-Pilgram lets her "moving figures" dance dynamically through everyday life, deliberately using clichés, stereotypes and prejudices to communicate with the viewer on a meta-level. The "pigeonholing" helps to make the information overflow bearable. However, negative prejudices and clichés often also have a discriminatory effect and create mistrust and a bad climate.

The multiple image titles thereby accentuate the image contents, steer the associations in different directions, emphasize the multidimensionality of the topic and clarify the complexity of the work series.

Clichés
Stereotypes
Prejudices

Thus, the works fit coherently into the BURN-IN exhibition round 2018/19, which as #KunstBotschafter has set itself the ambitious goal of transmitting sustainable impulses with artistic intervention to art enthusiasts.

The works of Traxler-Pilgram show that everything is a question of perspective. One way or another!!! Entirely in the sense of the viewer or society!

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Petra Traxler-Pilgram

"Don't teach, don't learn - grow from your own roots."
Franz Čižek, Austrian painter, designer and art educator founder of Viennese Kinetism

Viennese Kinetism emerged in the 1920s at the Vienna School of Applied Arts (today's University of Applied Arts) and is considered an Austrian contribution to the international abstract, futurist and constructivist trends in art at the time. The exhibition "Dynamism! Cubism | Futurism | Kinetism" at the Lower Belvedere (2011) and the book "Viennese Kinetism. Eine bewegte Moderne" document this art movement. The central theme in Čižek's teaching was the representation of movement, kinetism (Greek kinesis = movement).

The Austrian painter and graphic artist Traxler-Pilgram develops her very personal language of forms from kinetism and virtuously creates her "moving figures". Ambiguities are deliberately staged. Figures are perceived by the viewer in motion as well as "moved". The play between activity and passivity develops into a tense dialogue. Figures of speech become the essential transporter of messages, accompany the black-and-white painting on an equal footing, invert inner images to the outside and underline them. These processes are accompanied by dialogues between conscious and unconscious, mind and feeling, word and image.

What is the human being in confrontation with himself, society and his environment? Traxler-Pilgram devotes herself to this question as an artist, philosopher, educator, historian and also as a private person. In doing so, she creates her very personal holistic, interdisciplinary approach. She plays with words and all senses, imagines many things, explores possibilities and variations, sorts and weights thoughts, networks emotions - movement comes into play.

The tension-laden scope for interpretation opens up new perspectives. Traxler-Pilgram juggles with different titles, directs the associations in different directions, lets the moving figures always "run on". Sometimes they "gallop", jump on double tracks and the unconscious, the forbidden, the repressed or on classical role models. The humor always makes them socially acceptable.

Sagerly utopian! Human experience has no expiration date! Traxler-Pilgram follows psychologist C. G. Jung's view that they are anchored in the depths of a collective unconscious. Now and then they break loose and appear in the form of archetypes in myths, fairy tales, dreams and art. They wander from generation to generation, from person to person. They want to wake up and look from the past to the future. The moving figures as a sustainable element of our perception.

CV: Traxler-Pilgram was born in 1966 in Villach, 1986-1993 studied psychology, philosophy and history in Vienna, numerous courses in painting and graphics with different academic painters, teaching since 1995 in Vienna, lives and works in Maria Anzbach and in her studio in Ollersbach.