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Details of object number: 234818
Title:EX libris (original title)
Object name:drawing (art)
Collection:Kunstankauf, Abteilung Deutsche Kultur
Created by:Schönweger, Matthias (artist) (Tscherms bei Meran, 1949-01-17)
Production date:(about) 1980
Description:Gedruckter Flyer mit zwei Darstellungen, nachträglich bearbeitet mit Bleistift und Rubbelbuchstaben: Im oberen Teil auf brauner Fläche Darstellung einer Stuhl-Buch-Figur, die ihren Kopf in der Hand hält. Dem Mund entweichen 3 "SSS". An der Stelle des Kopfes befindet sich ein aufgeschlagenes Buch, umrahmt von den Worten "EX" und "libris". Im unteren Teil spuckt ein rosa Schwein mehrmals die Buchstaben "msch" aus, deren gewellte Schriftform zum Wiesenmotiv werden. Am oberen Bildrand der unteren Zeichnung die Aufschrift "SSSSSAMEN". Am unteren Bildrand links handschriftlich mit Bleistift signiert: "msch msch". Undatiert, gerahmt in altem Fotorahmen. Auf der Rückseite viergeteilter Farbdruck mit vier Farbabbildungen mit Motiven der Meraner Pfarrkirche (Weihwasserbecken, Grabstein, Eisengitter, Ausschnitt Eingang) mit gedruckter Aufschrift oben links „D’UOMO DI MERANO“ und unten rechts „AUF GUTE NACHBARSCHAFT“. Auf der Rückseite des Rahmens handschriftlich mit weißem Stift geschrieben: "92 S no?", ??g. 13" (wahrscheinlich nicht vom Künstler beschriftet).
Hist. crit. notes:The author, visual artist and performer Matthias Schönweger, crosses between disciplines, with the linguistic element running through all facets of his artistic work: wordplays, onomatopoeia and multiple meanings all inspire his drawings and collages. The tricks of his mischievous pictorial inventions include not only language games, but also appropriation, quotation and kitsch, taking an amused approach to his subjects and formal languages. He plays freely between elements of popular culture and symbolism, both refined and kitschy, conceptual and instinctive, between subversion and self-expression – personal, anti-academic, and far from any polished surfaces. (Marion Piffer Damiani, in “Arbeiten. Lavori in corso II [Works in progress II]”, Bozen 2020, p. 210)
What kind of artist is Matthias Schönweger? One who will take everything – and make yet more out of it. He collects what for most people is dead material, not for the sake of collecting [...] but because, in the objects he finds from all that everyday culture has to offer in terms of low culture, kitsch and trash, something still forces its way into the light: there’s still something there. [...] Because Schönweger is at heart a conceptual artist, one who strictly infuses the linguistic nature of all art statements with the fundamental insight of conceptual art, combining disparate materials in a poetical manner. Twisted words, assonances and rhymes become the language of images and images of language. Wherever you listen, language is always the algorithm. Schönweger makes no difference between reality and fiction, humour and tragedy, today and yesterday, art and life. Everything is connected to everything else; they merge into one another. […] (Heinrich Schwazer, Die Neue Südtiroler Tageszeitung, June 2014)
[…] The current remix and sample culture of the Google and Facebook generation has for Schönweger always been part of his awakening drive. His approach to sampling is more soulful, more humorous and indeed ultimately more serious than the merely smooth montages of DJ culture. Time and again, he intersperses collages, writing characters and pencil-thin drawings, mostly of an erotic nature, thus creating a monument to the actual drive that gives rise to his entire oeuvre. Schönweger is and remains at the head both of the connoisseurs and of the frugal, the eternal altar boy who serves as acolyte to his own life, the manic punster, the alphabet artist, the dawdling collector, the spin doctor of the art of living, who continues to spin the avant-garde dream of art being raised into life. (Heinrich Schwazer, Die Neue Südtiroler Tageszeitung, 1 April 2012)
What kind of artist is Matthias Schönweger? One who will take everything – and make yet more out of it. He collects what for most people is dead material, not for the sake of collecting [...] but because, in the objects he finds from all that everyday culture has to offer in terms of low culture, kitsch and trash, something still forces its way into the light: there’s still something there. [...] Because Schönweger is at heart a conceptual artist, one who strictly infuses the linguistic nature of all art statements with the fundamental insight of conceptual art, combining disparate materials in a poetical manner. Twisted words, assonances and rhymes become the language of images and images of language. Wherever you listen, language is always the algorithm. Schönweger makes no difference between reality and fiction, humour and tragedy, today and yesterday, art and life. Everything is connected to everything else; they merge into one another. […] (Heinrich Schwazer, Die Neue Südtiroler Tageszeitung, June 2014)
[…] The current remix and sample culture of the Google and Facebook generation has for Schönweger always been part of his awakening drive. His approach to sampling is more soulful, more humorous and indeed ultimately more serious than the merely smooth montages of DJ culture. Time and again, he intersperses collages, writing characters and pencil-thin drawings, mostly of an erotic nature, thus creating a monument to the actual drive that gives rise to his entire oeuvre. Schönweger is and remains at the head both of the connoisseurs and of the frugal, the eternal altar boy who serves as acolyte to his own life, the manic punster, the alphabet artist, the dawdling collector, the spin doctor of the art of living, who continues to spin the avant-garde dream of art being raised into life. (Heinrich Schwazer, Die Neue Südtiroler Tageszeitung, 1 April 2012)
Technique:printed
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Dimensions:
- height: 22.5 cm
width: 16 cm
gerahmt height: 26 cm
width: 18.7 cm
depth: 1 cm
Physical description:Bleistift und Rubbelbuchstaben auf vierfärbig gedrucktem Flyer
Keyword:Figurative