Martha Jungwirth: Retrospektive

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The Kunsthalle Krems dedicates a comprehensive retrospective to Marta Jungwirth (b. 1940), the great loner on the Austrian art scene. The show will be presenting works from five decades.00After studies at the Vienna Academy of Applied Arts from 1956 to 1963, she first came to public notice with works that used different techniques - pencil drawings, watercolors, and works in oils and ink. Early on, she received awards such as the “Theodor-Körner-Preis” (1964) or the “Joan Miró Prize” (1967). In 1968, she was the only female artist to become a founding member of a loose group of artists that called itself "Wirklichkeiten" ("Realities"). At that time, however, Jungwirth had already taken her own independent and idiosyncratic path with paintings oscillating between gestural abstraction and represenƯtational compositions.00Thematically, her work of drawings initially revolved around women’s sociocultural environment. Cycles entitled "Housewife Machines" or "The Black Kitchen" might be suggestive of a feminist approach, but Jungwirth was rather fascinated with the internal workings of everyday gadgets, inspired not least by the austerity of Mies van der Rohe’s architectural drawings. With these drawings of household appliances that looked like X-rays, she first came into the focus of the international art scene at the 1977 documenta 6 in Kassel. Aside from everyday objects, another source of inspiration or, as the artist puts it, a “pretext” for capturing personal visual impressions in drawing are real subjects like cityscapes or landscapes. Jungwirth’s works are always based on real-life situations that she encounters and that work as a stimulus, providing a visual experience which informs her creative process. Her goal is never mere reconstruction of, but always a reflection on reality.0Exhibition: Kunsthalle Krems, Austria (13.07-02.11.2014).

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