Heimo Zobernig
Biography
Heimo Zobernig&#;s earliest work at the beginning of the eighties explored the possibilities of geometric abstraction that had survived after Modernism. It was a time when the opulent brushwork of the Wild New Painters literally seemed to demand reduction and objectivity from the younger generation. Zobernig challenged their mythically overloaded images with a language of sober forms. Clarity, functionality and pragmatism characterized his approach as he engaged to productive effect with the relevant twentieth century traditions. He carries on from the artistic projects in the history of art which had developed abstract formal languages and had in broad terms distanced themselves from the idea of art as an esoteric, transcendental and metaphysical superstructure: Constructivism, the De Stijl movement in the Netherlands or the Zurich Concretes. At first glance Zobernig&#;s reductive formal language has more in common with American Minimal Art. Simple grids and materials like expanded polystyrene recall the objectivity of the Minimalist works of the Sixties, objects, whose self-reflectivity is programmatic. Minimal Art dispensed with titles of any sort
Biografie (Stand )
Heimo Zobernig
in Mauthen/Kärnten geboren, lebt in Wien.
| Akademie der bildenden Künste, Wien | |
| Hochschule für angewandte Kunst, Wien | |
| Gastprofessur, Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg | |
| Professur für Bildhauerei, Hochschule für bildende Künste, Städelschule, Frankfurt/M. | |
| Professur für Bildhauerei, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Wien |
| AB | Ausstellungsbeteiligung |
| EA | Einzelausstellung |
| E | Eröffnung |
| F/V | Film-/Videovorführung |
| P | Projekt (Kunst am Bau etc.) |
| PE | Performance/Vortrag/Präsentation |
| B | Beteiligung |
| P | Fünfzehn - sechzehn - siebzehn, Autor: Dieter Hirschberger, Bühnenbild: Heimo Zobernig (mit Can Yasargil), Dramatisches Zentrum, Wien, Premiere |
| EA | 1. private Ausstellung bei Can Yasargil und Ruth Labak, Theobaldgasse 8, Wien. |
| PE | 8 Freitagsaktionen (mit Alfons Egger), Dramatisches Zentrum Wien, Aufführungen |
| PE | Die Versuchung (mit Alfons Egger), Dramatisches Zentrum Wien, Aufführung |
| P | Das Natur/Theater von Hütteldorf (mit Hans C
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