Painting
Franziska Maderthaner
We cordially invite you and your friends to the opening with the artist on Saturday, March 15 at 8 pm.
Franziska Maderthaner interweaves figurative and abstract painting. She has a virtuoso command of her medium. She uses quotes from art history in her paintings with pleasure and knowledge. Conversely, she treats contemporary themes with baroque opulence and rococo sophistication.
“Ennuinale”, refers to the French word ‘ennui’ - boredom. A bored, sleeping young woman in a sea of colorful piles of paint and geometric shapes, accompanied by a golden picture frame. A reaction to this year's Venice Biennale, which elevated the ethnic kitsch of the third world to the pedestal of art in bright colors. Maderthaner was so bored there that this work can be understood as a reaction or as a state of current institutional art. Boredom in bright colors...
“White young man defines himself as a tulip” addresses the current identity debate.
Franziska Maderthaner attended the Akademisches Gymnasium in Vienna from 1972 to 1980. From 1980 to 1985, she studied art education under Herbert Tasquil at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. She completed her studies with the written diploma thesis “Freie Internationale Universität. An attempt to objectify the organ for the social sculpture of Joseph Beuys.” From 1985 to 1986 she studied graphic art with Oswald Oberhuber. From June 1984 to March 1985 she was assistant to Martin Kippenberger. She has participated in exhibitions since 1984. After graduating, she worked as a freelancer on various film projects and theater productions. Since 2000, she has been an associate professor of painting and graphics at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. From 2004 to 2006 she was chairwoman of the IG Bildende Kunst in Austria.