Akelei Sell »still in my mind«
Exhibition on occasion of Akelei Sell's 80th birthday.
Opening / Long Friday: September 17, 2021 from 12-8 pm
Exhibition goes until October 29, 2021
at the AnzenbergerGallery
Absberggasse 27, 1100 Vienna
Opening hours: Wed - Fri 12 to 6 pm or by appointment
Artist Talk with Akelei Sell by Manfred Makra: October 7, 2021 at 6 pm
Brotfabrik Herbstfest: September 25, 2021 from 2 - 10 pm
The digital and analogue archives of Akelei Sell's travel pictures - a mountain of memories from which her gaze wanders back to distant countries. Even after decades, she says, they are 'still in my mind', especially those from China, where she lived for a while in cities by the water between 2001 and 2008. Shanghai on the Huangpu River with its endlessly moving ships from all over the world, Nanjing on the wide, glittering Yang tse Kiang, Shaoxing with its canals reminiscent of Venice and Hangzhou on the Western lake Xi Hu, which in China is called paradise on earth. Colourful and buzzing life on the banks and in the heart of the cities. At the beginning of her trips to China, she mainly took photos in black and white, later in colour. For the exhibition on the occasion of her milestone birthday she was going back to the b/w photos, as colours fade in memory and the essentials remain. The "Echo from China" tableaux, paintings on acrylic glass, created between 2005 and 2012, are echos from a world of signs. (A.S. 2021)
Regina Anzenberger »Gstettn«
Book presentation and exhibition.
Opening / Long Friday: June 11, 2021 from 12-8 pm
Exhibition goes until September 25, 2021
at the AnzenbergerGallery
Absberggasse 27, 1100 Vienna
Opening hours: Wed - Fri 12 to 6 pm or by appointment
Gstettn is a place of wilderness and freedom, a plot of land waiting to be used for housing and that has been taken over by nature in the meantime. From 2017 to 2021, Regina Anzenberger set about capturing the essence of this small piece of land just behind the Anker bakery. Flats for 3000 people will be built, where once the buildings of Europe's largest bread factory stood - but that time has not yet come.
With her photographs, which are painted over, extended by drawings and augmented with found objects, the artist has captured the natural experience of Gstettn in the seven chapters Winter Flowers, Nature Planets, The Illusion of Summer, Native Grounds, The Reconquest of Nature/6 Columns, Snails and Frost. In her works, Regina blurs the boundary between object and reality and takes us on an adventure.
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