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strings of nature & ritual spaces

Susanne Guzei-Taschner AT
Exhibition 05.12.2022 - 07.01.2023

Nature must be felt.

Alexander von Humboldt


In December 2022, Vienna's BURN-IN Gallery invites visitors to a mysterious expedition into the realm of mystical, almost sacred natural spaces by painter and textile object artist Susanne Guzei-Taschner.

In the exhibition Strings of Nature & Ritual Spaces, the artist presents independent imaginary landscapes and ritual spaces in which the magical and the dream collide. In doing so, Guzei-Taschner develops an enormously independent pictorial composition in which she places the ecological community of man and nature at the center of her artistic work. The skilful staging of the harmonious triad of body, soul and spirit releases energies that subtly anchor themselves in the viewer's subconscious. These imaginary vibrations, energy flows, codes and signs of nature, the Strings of Nature, open up ritual spaces, encode and decode secret strings of signs, weave together the threads of nature and create delicate yet powerful strands for any life.

BURN-IN is showing 24 works in the exhibition (including 3 Earth Strings and 2 airy wooden sculptures) created between 2008 and 2022. The complex image collages The Power of Small Things, Growing Ships, Growth, Cascade, Circular Landscape, Interwoven Landscape, Departure into Blue, Connectedness, Rhythm and Ritual tell moving stories that make the breath of nature palpable in space.

Guzei-Taschner uses various fabrics, canvases, jute, nets, strings, alluvial woods and stones. The sewn pictorial elements give the works a remarkable plasticity and independence. In this way Guzei-Taschner opens up her own personal female space of experience. All assemblages convince with precise technique and a masterly topographical accuracy, which is further enhanced by her painting with accentuating color spaces. Bold compositions in blues, greens and browns are juxtaposed with near-monochromes in white.

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Vernissage & Program

BURN-IN and Susanne Guzei-Taschner invite you to the exhibition opening on 16.12.2022, 18-20 h.

  • Welcome and address to the exhibition Sonja Dolzer | BURN-IN founder
  • Musical highlight: Werner Kodydek
  • Sociable togetherness

Location

BURN-IN Gallery in Gerngross 2. OG | 1070 Vienna, Mariahilfer Straße 42-48

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Experimental textile object art

Textile art is one of the oldest art forms in history. As early as 27,000 years ago, the art of weaving emerged, bringing revolutionary changes to society and the environment.

Textile art has gone through a wide variety of phases of popularity. Since the 1970s, another turning point has been emerging, as feminist artists such as Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro questioned the distinction between textiles and fine art and embraced techniques traditionally relegated to the realm of "women's crafts," such as sewing and quilting. Well-known protagonists such as Sheila Hicks, Magdalena Abakanowicz, and Yayoi Kusama set new standards with their work and also convinced critical art journalists. The acceptance of the genre increased continuously and with it the popularity among collectors.

With Susanne Guzei-Taschner BURN-IN represents for the first time an established textile object artist and painter, who makes a very valuable contribution to the BURN-IN GreenART portfolio with her artistic concept Nature.Ritual.Space. and Transforming Nature. Her three-dimensional textile objects are characterized by closeness to nature, cosmopolitanism and diversity. The artist deliberately focuses on the independent and lively language of threads and strings. With the Strings of Nature and the experimental exploration of the pictorial space in terms of shaping and color, she conveys an image of nature that always conveys something light and playful.

This unique world of experience, which Guzei-Taschner also offers as commissioned art, exudes an incomparable ambience in private or public spaces. Already in 2009, Prof. Oswald Oberhuber, in his laudation for the exhibition Zeichensprache, praised the very special feel of the works, which one can touch with the eyes. A wonderful statement in the direction of avant-garde and textile object art.

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artworks

Ritual
Ritual

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Paintings, Textile Art, 105 x 120 cm

€ 4.200
Rhythm
Rhythm

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Paintings, Textile Art, 150 x 105 cm

€ 4.600
Hidden layers
Hidden layers

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Paintings, Textile Art, 135 x 100 cm

€ 4.400
Interwoven landscape
Interwoven landscape

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Paintings, Textile Art, 130 x 150 cm

€ 5.100
Cascade
Cascade

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Paintings, Textile Art, 135 x 180 cm

€ 5.400
Circular landscape
Circular landscape

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Paintings, Textile Art, 120 x 113 cm

€ 4.600
Cretan landscape
Cretan landscape

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Paintings, Textile Art, 80 x 80 cm

€ 3.400
earth strings 5
earth strings 5

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Sculpture, Textile Art, 174 x 16 cm

€ 3.500
earth strings green
earth strings green

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Sculpture, Textile Art, 172 x 16 cm

€ 3.500
earth strings RED
earth strings RED

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Sculpture, Textile Art, 186 x 13 cm

€ 3.100
Flow of life
Flow of life

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Paintings, Textile Art, 90 x 120 cm

€ 3.900
Growing ships
Growing ships

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Sculpture, Textile Art, 135 x 110 cm

€ 5.600
Growth
Growth

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Paintings, Textile Art, 130 x 100 cm

€ 4.600
Hidden layers
Hidden layers

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Paintings, Textile Art, 135 x 100 cm

€ 4.400
Interwoven landscape
Interwoven landscape

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Paintings, Textile Art, 130 x 150 cm

€ 5.100
Large sign
Large sign

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Sculpture, Textile Art, 190 x 100 cm

€ 3.100
Poem
Poem

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Paintings, Textile Art, 100 x 110 cm

€ 4.600
Rhythm
Rhythm

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Paintings, Textile Art, 150 x 105 cm

€ 4.600
Ritual
Ritual

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Paintings, Textile Art, 105 x 120 cm

€ 4.200
Setting off into the blue
Setting off into the blue

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Paintings, Textile Art, 135 x 95 cm

€ 4.600
sight-reading
sight-reading

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Paintings, Textile Art, 135 x 115 cm

€ 4.900
Silent mail
Silent mail

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Paintings, Textile Art, 95 x 120 cm

€ 3.700
The language of nature
The language of nature

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Paintings, Textile Art, 105 x 105 cm

€ 3.900
The magic square
The magic square

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Paintings, Textile Art, 105 x 105 cm

€ 3.900
The power of small things
The power of small things

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Paintings, Textile Art, 80 x 120 cm

€ 4.100
To new shores
To new shores

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Paintings, Textile Art, 115 x 150 cm

€ 5.400
Wooden sculpture 1
Wooden sculpture 1

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Sculpture, Textile Art, 160 x 70 cm

€ 3.100
earth strings 5
earth strings 5

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Sculpture, Textile Art, 174 x 16 cm

€ 3.500
earth strings green
earth strings green

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Sculpture, Textile Art, 172 x 16 cm

€ 3.500
earth strings RED
earth strings RED

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Sculpture, Textile Art, 186 x 13 cm

€ 3.100
Growing ships
Growing ships

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Sculpture, Textile Art, 135 x 110 cm

€ 5.600
Large sign
Large sign

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Sculpture, Textile Art, 190 x 100 cm

€ 3.100
Wooden sculpture 1
Wooden sculpture 1

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Sculpture, Textile Art, 160 x 70 cm

€ 3.100
Cascade
Cascade

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Paintings, Textile Art, 135 x 180 cm

€ 5.400
Circular landscape
Circular landscape

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Paintings, Textile Art, 120 x 113 cm

€ 4.600
Cretan landscape
Cretan landscape

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Paintings, Textile Art, 80 x 80 cm

€ 3.400
Flow of life
Flow of life

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Paintings, Textile Art, 90 x 120 cm

€ 3.900
Growth
Growth

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Paintings, Textile Art, 130 x 100 cm

€ 4.600
Hidden layers
Hidden layers

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Paintings, Textile Art, 135 x 100 cm

€ 4.400
Interwoven landscape
Interwoven landscape

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Paintings, Textile Art, 130 x 150 cm

€ 5.100
Moving landscape
Moving landscape

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Paintings, 80 x 120 cm

€ 4.100
Poem
Poem

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Paintings, Textile Art, 100 x 110 cm

€ 4.600
Rhythm
Rhythm

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Paintings, Textile Art, 150 x 105 cm

€ 4.600
Ritual
Ritual

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Paintings, Textile Art, 105 x 120 cm

€ 4.200
Setting off into the blue
Setting off into the blue

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Paintings, Textile Art, 135 x 95 cm

€ 4.600
sight-reading
sight-reading

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Paintings, Textile Art, 135 x 115 cm

€ 4.900
Silent mail
Silent mail

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Paintings, Textile Art, 95 x 120 cm

€ 3.700
The language of nature
The language of nature

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Paintings, Textile Art, 105 x 105 cm

€ 3.900
The magic square
The magic square

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Paintings, Textile Art, 105 x 105 cm

€ 3.900
The power of small things
The power of small things

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Paintings, Textile Art, 80 x 120 cm

€ 4.100
To new shores
To new shores

Susanne Guzei-Taschner Österreich
Paintings, Textile Art, 115 x 150 cm

€ 5.400
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Artist

Verbundenheit

Connectedness

Susanne Guzei-Taschner

Susanne Guzei-Taschner

Susanne Guzei-Taschner was born in Vienna in 1953 and studied graphic art under Prof. Oswald Oberhuber at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna from 1974-78 (graduated in 1978). This was followed in 1979 by a scholarship abroad at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow (Poland), the Vienna Art Fund Award and a state scholarship for fine arts. Member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus since 1980. Member of the Professional Association of Austrian Visual Artists since 2017. 1982-1995 worked for ORF Vienna (graphics department). The step into self-employment followed in 1995. 2002 foundation and management of the Mandala Center in Lower Austria.

Since 1978 numerous exhibitions in Austria, Italy, the UK and Poland.

The multi-faceted, interdisciplinary Lower Austrian is a painter and textile object artist. Her complex picture collages, in which she models various fabrics, canvases, jute, nets, cords, driftwood and stones, are inspiring. The sewn pictorial elements lend the works a remarkable plasticity and independence. The experiment plays an important role in Guzei-Taschner's work. Unexpected things often develop during the design process that deviates from the original concept. This freedom and flexibility is based on the artistic flow, which the artist knows how to combine perfectly with craftsmanship. Nature leaves its mark on almost all of her works.

Inspired by her worldwide travels and by the art of indigenous peoples and their shamanic ritual objects, her works express a universal language that allows the viewer to come into contact with deeper levels of being. In this way, the artist interprets and reflects her habitat and preserves it for posterity with a great deal of empathy and magic.

 

Guzei-Taschner lives and works in Gänserndorf (Lower Austria).

 

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