Hildegard Joos & Roland Goeschl
As part of a four-week pop-up exhibition in the Hochhaus Herrengasse building, we are putting paintings by Hildegard Joos in the discourse with sculptures by Roland Goeschl.
The paths of the two artists have crossed already before such as in the group exhibition
"Exact tendencies. Room concepts"
Gertraud & Dieter Bogner, Buchberg Castle on Kamp; 1983
Hildegard Joos (1909 - 2005) is one of the most important artists of geometric abstraction in Austria. Her striking development spans an arc from constructivism, concrete art and op art to narrative geometrisms and the later raster images. Subsequently, her work proved to be a stimulus for the young generation and brought about a revision and reassessment of the geometric design language in Austria. A member of the Vienna Secession since 1955, in 1962 she was the first artist whose work was presented to a staff in the main room of the Secession. From 1959 she maintained a studio in Paris, where she caused a sensation with her monistic pictures. She participated in the international development of geometric abstraction and in numerous exhibitions, such as the "Salon des Indépendants" and the "Salon des Réalités Novelles" and others.
Hildegard Joos' work marks an interface in the tradition of geometrically constructive abstraction and the contemporary discourse on painting.
The focus of Hildegard Joos' presentation is on the Narrative Geometrisms work group, an individual and unique vocabulary of forms that emerged in the 1980s together with her partner Harold Joos.
Roland Goeschl (1932 - 2016), an important representative of the Austrian avant-garde after 1945, increased the concrete geometry of his objects with the primary colors of the Bauhaus era red, blue, yellow. His "colored extension of the plastic" gives the constructivism based on pure basic forms an additional variety. The viewer, however, usually only experiences full enjoyment when walking around the objects.
In 1964 and 1968 he took part in documenta III and IV in Kassel, in the same year (1968) Roland Goeschl together with Josef Mikl represented Austria at the 34th Venice Biennale. Roland Goeschl was also a member of the Vienna Secession.
Due to the nuanced, strictly geometrical principles of choreography of repeating the same basic forms, the objects seem to be in constant motion. Roland Goeschl always reduced the richness of evolutionary varieties to simple architectural spatial compositions.
Exhibition:
Hildegard Joos & Roland Goeschl
Location:
Hochhaus Herrengasse
Wallnerstraße 6-8, 1010 Vienna
Herrengasse U3 station
Duration:
July 21 - August 26, 2020
Opening hours:
by appointment only
Contact:
info@suppanfinearts.com
Tel: +43 1 535 535 2 or +43 664 348 11 30
Installation views
For inquiries regarding works by Roland Goeschl, please visit the website of zs art galerie: www.zsart.at
Works
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Hildegard Joos
Narrative Geometrismen No 271, 1993
Acrylic on canvas
197 x 197 cm -
Hildegard Joos
Narrative Geometrismen No 83, 1984
Acrylic on canvas
170 x 170 cm -
Hildegard Joos
Narrative Geometrismen No 279, 1987
Acrylic on canvas
170 x 170 cm -
Hildegard Joos
Geométrismes narratifs No 97, 1985
Acrylic on canvas
150 x 150 cm -
Hildegard Joos
Narrative Geometrismen No 290
Acrylic on canvas
50 x 50 cmsold -
Hildegard Joos
Geométrismes narratifs No. 115, 1987
Acrylic on canvas
150 x 150 cm -
Hildegard Joos
Narrative Geometrismen No. 122, 1988/89
Acrylic on canvas
197 x 197 cm -
Hildegard Joos
Narrative Geometrismen No 102, 1985
Acrylic on canvas
120 x 120 cm -
Hildegard Joos
Narrative Geometrismen (gelb), ca. 1992
Colour lithograph on paper
50 x 70 cm
signed, numbered, framed -
Hildegard Joos
Narrative Geometrismen (braun), ca. 1992
Colour lithograph on paper
50 x 70 cm
signed, numbered, framedsold -
Roland Goeschl
Ohne Titel, um 1980
Wood painted
24,5 x 15 cm -
Roland Goeschl
stehende Faltung, 2001
Iron painted
48,5 x 27 x 23 cm -
Roland Goeschl
Farbraum, um 1986
Cement
22 x 10 x 10 cm -
Roland Goeschl
Säulenformation, 1984
Wood painted
55,5 x 47 x 41,5 cm -
Roland Goeschl
Ohne Titel, 1986
Bronze patinated
21,2 x 9,7 x 9,7 cm -
Roland Goeschl
Ohne Titel, 1986
Bronze painted
31 x 20 x 20 cm -
Roland Goeschl
Ohne Titel, 1986
Bronze
31 x 20 x 10 cm -
Roland Goeschl
Ohne Titel, 1981
Wood painted
300 x 21 x 21 cm -
Roland Goeschl
Ohne Titel, 1966
Wood painted
133,5 x 25 x 25 cm -
Roland Goeschl
Säulenformation, ca. 1989
Wood painted
60 x 12 x 12 cm -
Roland Goeschl
Säulenformation, ca. 1989
Wood painted
120 x 12 x 12 cm