Beata Taschner shows after Exhibitions in New York and Salzburg her new huge panoramic oil painting at art fair Art Innsbruck 2005 Feb. 25 – Feb. 28 in Innsbruck Exhibition Hall 4/F2. This monumental painting consisting of 7 pieces 80 by 80 inches each.
(PRWEB) February 20, 2005 -- Beata Taschner shows her new panoramic oil painting at art fair Art Innsbruck 2005. This is the first exhibition of hers huge painting NGC 1045. Beata Taschner, widely recognised as one of the worlds leading painter who effectively bridges the gap between the more lyrical variety of Abstract Expressionism, as seen in the early paintings of Philip Guston and the subtler species of Color Field painting of Jules Olitski.
Wilson Wong in Gallery & Studio Magazine Vol.6 No. 4 about Taschners works: To place Color Field painting into a historical context, critics and scholars often refer to it as post painterly abstraction," a term that Clement Greenberg, the monolithic critic and formalist champion, coined for the title of an influential exhibition he curated at the Los Angeles County Museum in 1964.
Beata Taschner, whose luminous oils on canvas were recently exhibited at Agora Gallery, 415 West Broadway, Soho, would appear to be direct descendent of Jules Olitski, Ellsworth Kelly, and other renowned Color Field painters who were featured in that landmark exhibition.
However, while they involve fields of color, Taschners paintings could hardly be called post-painterly. For unlike her worthy predecessors, who generally treated the canvas as a single plane, and in case of Kelly, often employed a single color, Taschner employs myriad, subtly modulated strokes of various colors to bring her canvas alive. Her paintings are hardly impassive and definitely not hard-edged. And even when she appears to employ a single overall color, such a red or blue, subtle modulations and tonalities can be discerned on closer perusal, and the hand of artist is much more visible than one normally finds it to be in this sort of painting.
Indeed, it could be said that Taschner effectively bridges the gap between the more lyrical variety of Abstract Expressionism, as seen in the early paintings of Philip Guston (whom one critic, further complicating the matter, referred to as an Abstract Impressionist") and the subtler species of Color Field painting in which Jules Olitski specialized. But while Olitski finally resorted to a spray-gun to achieve his overall surfaces, in which color particles appeared to coalesce, Taschner still builds her compositions in the traditional manner with a brush-albeit a brush that appears to have been dipped in liquid light rather than ordinary pigment! .
Beata Taschner shows her new huge 560 by 80 inches panoramic oil painting NGC 1045 at Art Innsbruck 2005 Feb. 25 – Feb. 28, 2005 and Puts a New Spin on Color Field Painting.
About Beata Taschner:
Beata Taschner's images imprint themselves through color composition and intensity. Full of energy and momentum, they lean toward the abstract, with soft hints of concreteness. Taschner presents her works in such a large, dense format that the pictures emerge as portrayals without any concrete physicalness. Interpretations and association push themselves forward. Born in Poland, Taschner studied applied art at the Fine Art Academy in Vienna and fashion design in Zurich. Her works have appeared in numerous exhibitions, galleries, institutions and collections in Europe.
About Art Innsbruck:
ART Innsbruck 2004 – visual art of the 20th and 21st centuries. The 9th international art exhibition Art Innsbruck Feb. 25 – Feb. 28 in Innsbruck Exhibition Hall 4 will consist of approx. 70 exhibitors from 9 nations showing more than 500 artists.
Contact: Beata Taschner on +43-699-1092-8054 for interviews and additional info / images.
Modern Art Gallery, Gerspergasse 9/3/7, A-1210 Vienna, Austria
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