Verlauf

Materials: oil on muslin. Dimensions: 162 × 261 cm (framed).
b. 1947 in Stams, Tyrol; d. 2020 in Vienna, Austria; lived in Vienna and Gars am Kamp, Austria.
Lender: evn collection, Maria Enzersdorf, Austria

Lois Weinberger explored the tension between natural and civilized spaces in his artistic works spanning several decades. The artist began in the 1970s with what he called “ethnopoetic works” and was involved in a network of marginalized spaces. (1)

Lois Weinberger described his relationship to materials and things as follows: “I take up the presumed motives underlying an object / in order to create new works that reveal and expand upon the original intentions.” The artist regarded every object as something harboring its own secrets, drawing from an “archeology of a magically ritualized atmosphere.” (2)

His work Verlauf (Progression), presented in the exhibition, Paper, Rock, Scissors, depicts a topography. The artist has transformed conventional ways of systematically depicting space by positioning organically curved lines in such a way that they appear to vibrate like swirls of water and wind. The inserted words from biology and psychology are not explanatory, but create further references. Weinberger was interested in the gaps created by the forces of urbanization, as well as in wastelands, peripheries, and gardens where boundaries manifested themselves as something open-ended, dynamic, and uncertain. (3)

Mona Jas
 

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