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Reinisch Contemporary Graz
More than 25 years ago, Helmut Reinisch began to collect, exhibit and trade contemporary Austrian and international art. Alongside works by promising new talents the collection also includes pieces by artists such as Arnulf Rainer, Hubert Schmalix, Erwin Wurm and Joseph Beuys.
Operating across genre boundaries, Reinisch Contemporary explores ostensibly disparate fields of work and the connections between them. From time to time, fields of resonance between selected pieces ranging from fine arts and sculpture to textiles and photography are brought to light.
Through exhibitions, residencies and cross-disciplinary projects at its locations in central Graz and nearby Kalsdorf Castle, Reinisch Contemporary creates links between artists, collectors, experts and the wider public.
- Exhibition
5/16/2025 - 6/13/2025
Beyond the Border
Joseph Marsteurer's paintings in space
Joseph Marsteurer Exhition Sujet, Credits: J. Marsteurer
Joseph Marsteurer, Credits: J. Marsteurer
Joseph Marsteurer, Credits: J. Marsteurer
Joseph Marsteurer, Credits: J. Marsteurer
Joseph Marsteurer, Credits: Marsteurer
Painting plays a central role in the concept of modernism. What should it look like, what should it mean and how should it set itself apart from tradition? Its end is often inscribed in its development - but its declaration of death also expands the repertoire and introduces variants. Is painting immortal?
Modernism sees painting as ‘flatness’ (Greenberg). Two-dimensionality is also the only condition that painting shares with no other artistic genre. Since it therefore does not create illusions, does not feign three-dimensionality in the picture and is therefore not an argument of space, what possibilities does it have? In relation to painting, in addition to the question of the spatial, there is also the question of the surface. The minimum condition that a marked surface must fulfil in order to be considered painting has also shifted in modernism. Today we know that this minimum condition can be radically suppressed before a painting ceases to be a painting.
Joseph Marsteurer seems to discuss both axioms in his work. He fulfils the minimum condition of surface design through the reduction to the brushstroke and the autonomisation of the brushstroke. He achieves spatiality not through painterly illusion, but through physicality. The conquest of space by colour literally takes place here in that the artist uses the brushstrokes autonomously - they thus become witnesses to open boundaries. The displaced spatiality, which is usually created by illusion, is compensated for by the three-dimensional brushstrokes.
Today we have a situation in which painting and sculpture have come dramatically closer together and the differences are often no more than a theoretical game. Coloured objects standing freely in space are anchored in both discourses. It is no longer decisive whether a work of art can be strictly categorised or whether it appears indeterminate.
Joseph Marsteurer's analytical painting goes beyond the fundamental questions of modernism. Reduction and abstraction appear to be limited methodological processes. This art has set out to constantly expand and re-discuss these boundaries and objectives.
Günther Holler-Schuster
- Artists:
- Joseph Marsteurer
- curated by:
- Günther Holler-Schuster