Staged: the mysterious pictorial worlds of Xenia Hausner
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Xenia Hausner
True Lies
Xenia Hausner ranks among the most important Austrian painters of our time. This splendid volume focuses on the aspect of stagecraft which characterizes all her works. Starting from the early paintings of the 1990s up to her moving Exiles series, the publication lures us into a female world filled with mysterious interpersonal relationships.
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Hausner’s painting begins in photography. The artist constructs three-dimensional settings in her studio beforehand, and records details from them, similar to film stills. Translated into painting, her images generate a dramaturgical moment of tension, in which everything seems to push towards the image that follows the one that is shown, in order to reveal its enigma. Through the staging in her works – the record of a painted lie – one experiences the contradictions of our existence and an alternative to male-dominated pictorial language.
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Contributions by P. Blom, J. Crispin, S. Eiblmayr, M. Gaponenko, L. Gascoigne, A. Heller, E. Jelinek, D. Kehlmann, E. Lahner, T. Macho, E. Menasse, Ch. Ransmayr, L. Rideal, K. Sykora, B. Zemann
Second Revised Edition252 pages, 120 colour illustrations
29.5 × 29.5 cm, hardcover
HIRMER PREMIUM
Cover with spot lacquer, High quality uncoated paper
ISBN: 978-3-7774-3954-9
Events
Burgdorf
| Franz Gertsch Museum
Categories
Art 20th Century
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Artist monographs
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Painting
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Contemporary Art
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Painting 20th Century
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Art 21st Century
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Austria
Keywords
Contemporary art, painting, 21st century
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