MATERIAL AND STRUCTURE II
Helmut Dirnaichner, Alfred Haberpointner, Martin Lehmer
Vernissage: Friday, October 17th, 2025 from 6 to 8 pm
Matinee: Saturday, October 18th, 2025 from 12 to 4 pm
Exhibition from October 17th to December 20th, 2025
Special event:
Bender Talk am Samstag, 15. November 2025:
Lesung mit Gottfried Knapp und Helmut Dirnaichner
The three artists use their different materials to create pictorial bodies of extraordinary presence. The viewer embarks on a search for traces and discovers structures and subtleties that change depending on the incidence of light. They radiate an extraordinary haptic attraction that makes you pause and encourages contemplation.
Bei Helmut Dirnaichner sind es zerstoßene Steine, Erden und Mineralien, welche von ihm als natürliche Farbpalette genutzt werden. In Zellulose eingeschöpft, durchdringen sie den fragilen Bildkörper und schaffen eine abwechslungsreiche Oberflächenstruktur. In der Ausstellung wird u.a. eine Arbeit mit 15 Lanzetten aus blauen und grünen Steinen wie Lapislazuli, Azurit und Malachit gezeigt. Sie hängen 10 cm von der Wand entfernt von der Decke des Galerieraumes herab. Die Installation manifestiert sich als bewegte Skulptur, nachdem sie im ersten Augenblick als großes Bild erscheint.
Alfred Haberpointner chops, cuts and burns traces into his starting material, the wood. He carves objects such as cones, spheres, cylinders, ovals, cubes and even oversized, stylized heads directly out of the trunk. They are all given a rough surface structure. Color plays a particularly important role in his group of panel paintings. Haberpointner is interested in opening up the surface, in the play of light on the surfaces treated with stains and acrylic paints.
Martin Lehmer layers strips of broken MDF on top of each other, creating picture surfaces of extraordinary plasticity and presence. The black MDF he uses creates velvety structures at the fragile broken edges due to its texture. The light is both absorbed and reflected by the black picture surface, which only initially appears monochrome. The reduction to the “achromatic color” black leads to an elementary art experience.
Helmut Dirnaichner's most recent publication “Helmut Dirnaichner. Das Licht aus der Erde” (HIRMER Verlag 03/2025) is sponsored by:
