Katalogpräsentation und gleichnamige Ausstellung in erweiterter Neuauflage:

Kritzel – Kitzel – Kabinett II  
PADHI FRIEBERGER, ANTON HERZL, ELKE SILVIA KRYSTUFEK, MICHAEL VONBANK

Galerie DISTRICT4art
Sommerresidenz in der Manner Villa
Klampfelberggasse 2, 1170 Wien (Neuwaldegg, Endstation 43)

Do, 31.08.2023, ab 18 Uhr

Unter anderem zeige ich Fotografien von PADHI FRIEBERGER- Wandtexten, Fundstücke mehrjähriger Recherchen. 
In dem Katalog, der begleitend zur Ausstellung präsentiert wird, stelle ich in Bild und Text den aktuellen Stand der Forschungsarbeiten zu PADHI FRIEBERGER vor, an welchen Elisabeth Foissner, ehem. Belvedere, und ich, seit 2019 gemeinsam tätig sind.
Erstmals ist ein Foto von Padhi Frieberger aus dem Papier-Nachlass, mit freundlicher Genehmigung des Belvedere, Wien, abgebildet.

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Catalogue “KRITZEL-KITZEL-KABINETT”Padhi Frieberger (with Annette Tesarek), Anton Herzl, Elke Silvia Krystufek, Michael VonbankThe catalogue was published by District 4 Art, Galerie Gisela Weißenbach, Wiedner Gürtel 12, 1040 Wien. The exhibition was curated by Vitus H. Weh.”To the times their art, to art its freedom” demanded the members of the Vienna Secession around 1900. Elke Silvia Krystufek rephrased this beautiful intellectual statement on one of her many typefaces as “Der Zeit ihre unbequemen Künstler:innen, den Unbequemen ihre Freiheit” (To the times their inconvenient artists, to the inconvenienced their freedom). Her numerous portraits of contemporary activists are always surrounded by slogans and remarks. She places the politically inconvenient of the present at the centre of her art and thus becomes a political actor herself.A similar spirit of contradiction unites the four artists presented in the exhibition:Padhi Frieberger, for example, is considered one of the most radical pioneers of the art scene after the Second World War. As a pioneer of the ecology movement, socio-political activist and declared non-conformist, he consistently refused the art market.Anton Herzl’s being uncomfortable is evident not least in the material. His pen-and-ink and papier-mache works rub up against the ductus of bourgeois living formats. His allusions demand an effort of thought where in others the melting of seduction may already have set in.Michael Vonbank’s painterly, powerful work, on the other hand, is populated throughout by grotesques: his bizarre creatures with comical features drag the pupae of society before the curtain in rich colour. His art lays fingers in open wounds, provocative and uncompromising.

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