Klaus Mosettig: Drawing Painting

October 23, 2012 - March 01, 2013

Artist(s)

KLAUS MOSETTIG

Born in Graz 1975. Lives and works in Vienna.

EDUCATION

1993-94 Meisterschule für Malerei, Graz (A)

1994-2000 Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (A)

1998/99 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam

EXHIBITIONS

until Mar 17th zusammen sehen, Galerie Werner Klein, Cologne

since Sept '20 Spuren und Masken der Flucht, Niederoesterreichische Landesgalerie, Krems

since July '20 Constellations III, Berardo Collection Museum, Lisbon

2020 Informel (SOLO), Uma Lulik Gallery, Lisbon

2019-20 The David Plates (SOLO), Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna

2019 The Other is Oneself, Franz Josefs Kai 3, Vienna

2018 Handwriting (SOLO), Kunsthalle Darmstadt

Drawing Now Artfair, Paris

2017-18 Remastering, Kunsthalle Krems

reduce to a maximum, Kunstraum Sellemond, Vienna

Planet 9, Kunsthalle Darmstadt

Deceleration, Galerie Bechter Kastowsky, Vienna

2016 Zeichnung, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin

The Gestural, 21er Haus, Vienna

l’air du temps, Kerstin Engholm Galerie, Vienna

OFF IS, Vienna

2015 Withdrawal (SOLO), Hofstätter Projekte, Vienna

2014 Roland Goeschl / Klaus Mosettig, ViennaFair, Vienna

Siehe was Dich sieht, 21er Haus, Vienna

Zu Papier Gebracht, Galerie Bechter Kastowsky, Vienna

2013 Art On Gallery (SOLO), Istanbul

Paper, Saatchi Gallery, London

Buchmann Box (SOLO), Buchmann Galerie, Berlin

Drawing Painting (SOLO), Shaheen Gallery, Cleveland (USA)

2012 More than meets the eye, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin

Déjà-vu?, Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (Ge)

Re-Collection, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, New York City

2011 Unter Helden, Kunsthalle Nuernberg (Ge)

motifs (SOLO), Stadtgalerie Schwaz (A)

Stuart Shave / Modern Art Gallery (SOLO), London

2010 Nature Morte (SOLO), Kunstraum Dornbirn, Dornbirn (A)

Systeme, Schloss Ulmerfeld, Amstetten (A)

Konstellationen, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien / Vienna (A)

Prometheus, Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz (A)

2009 Mary Kelly / Christian Capurro / Klaus Mosettig, Simon Preston Gallery, New York City

31. Oesterreichischer Grafikwettbewerb, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck (A)

Von der Schoenheit des Haesslichen, Forum Frohner, Krems (A)

Postalternativ, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Wien / Vienna

Pradolux (SOLO), Secession, Wien / Vienna

SELECTED AWARDS AND GRANTS

2010 Professor-Hilde-Goldtschmidt-Preis

Förderungspreis der Stadt Wien

Staatsstipendium des Bundesministeriums für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur

2009 Preis der Landeshauptstadt Innsbruck, 31. Österreichischer Grafikwettbewerb, Innsbruck

2007 Atelierstipendium Paris des Bundesministeriums für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur

Preis des Landes Tirol, 30. Österreichischer Grafikwettbewerb, Innsbruck

2005 Walter Koschatzky Kunst-Preis

2000 Arbeitstipendium des Bundesministeriums für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur

Würdigungspreis des Bundesministeriums für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur

Press Release(s)

Klaus Mosettig

Drawing Painting

October 23, 2012 - February 1, 2013

SHAHEEN is delighted to present an exhibition of recent large-scale drawings by Austrian born, Vienna based artist Klaus Mosettig. This is Mosettig's first solo gallery exhibition in the United States, as well as the first time that the three works comprising the show, all of which have appeared in multiple museum exhibitions, have been presented in a gallery context.

The bulk of Mosettig's mature work has revolved around the practice of drawing from projected slide imagery, where the slide and projection become the subject of the artist's distinctly contemporary form of still life. Neither appropriative nor ironic, Mosettig's interest in working from pre-existing imagery lies in the utility of images as readymade found objects; issues inherent in technical and visual repetition; and the process of transcription, not for the purposes of depicting an image and the contextual narrative that its reproduction can evoke, but for the hermetic and abstracted quality of an approach to the relay of visual information that is variously objective and subjective. Through the systematic application of diagonal hatch marks of varying length and tonality, all drawn in the same direction, Mosettig methodically transcribes and re-constructs the projected slide images, transforming them into slate-like visual continuums in which layering gives way to flatness, and color is transcribed into a spectrum of blacks, whites and greys.

Mosettig's exhibition at SHAHEEN consists of two incredibly ambitious large scale drawings, and a single work comprised of eight smaller drawings, all of which have been drawn 1:1 scale in graphite from projected slide images of specific works by Jackson Pollock -- namely the paintings Number 32 and Lavender Mist, and a smaller scale untitled work on paper from 1950. The stark contrast between Pollock's fiery expressionistic approach to painting and Mosettig's slow, deliberate approach to art making combine with the variable quality of the slide image and constant gain and loss of visual information precipitated by the projector / projection to yield drawn transcriptions that are markedly different in their material quality and reduced level of detail than the works by Pollock they appear to "depict". In Mosettig's hands, at close range, Pollock's spontaneous drips and splatters give way to a planar continuum of diagonal hatching and an altogether different visual and physical microstructure. More transformative than reproductive, the resulting drawings are iconic and spectacular, yet ultimately conducive to a slow, contemplative and ever-changing visual experience.

Klaus Mosettig was born in 1975 in Graz, Austria, and currently lives and works in Vienna. Over the past few years, his work has been the subject of one person exhibitions at Secession, Vienna; Kunstraum Dornbirn, Austria; Stadtgalerie Schwaz, Austria; and Stuart Shave / Modernart in London. In addition, his work has been included in numerous group museum exhibitions, prestigious European institutions such as the Kunstahlle Karlsruhe and MUMOK Vienna, and will be included in the Saatchi Gallery's upcoming exhibition "The Power of Paper".

Klaus Mosettig
Lavender Mist L+R (detail), 2009-2010
graphite on paper

Klaus Mosettig
Lavender Mist L+R, 2009-2010
graphite on paper
87 x 118 inches

Klaus Mosettig
Number 32, 2008-2009
graphite on paper
106 x 179 3/4 inches

Klaus Mosettig
Number 32 (detail), 2008-2009
graphite on paper

Klaus Mosettig
1950/2 verso+recto, 2010
graphite on paper
dimensions variable

Klaus Mosettig
1950/2 verso+recto (verso 270°), 2010
graphite on paper
17 1/4 x 22 1/4 inches

Klaus Mosettig
1950/2 verso+recto (recto 0°), 2010
graphite on paper
17 1/4 x 22 1/4 inches

Klaus Mosettig: Drawing Painting

Artist(s)

» Klaus Mosettig

Press Release(s)

» Klaus Mosettig: Drawing Painting