ARNULF RAINERNew Works on Paper

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Arnulf Rainer">Arnulf Rainer is considered one of the most influential, but also one of the most innovative and provocative artists in Austria. His art is just as complex as it is contradictory. As someone always pushing the limits and as an anti-artist, Rainer has been working since the 1950s on overpaintings. His tireless striving for expansion includes serial work, but also the attempt to block out consciousness in an intensive process of creating.

The new works, created primarily in Tenerife and exhibited now for the first time, are intensely colorful and joyful. They appear delicate or wild, sometimes mad, almost enlightened. For Rainer, the tension between painting ground and overpainting, the probing of light, color, gesture and format is a never-ending artistic challenge. Whereas earlier it was mostly expressive, frequently black pictures full of restlessness and doubt that were the order of the day, the most recent works are comparatively cheerful, delicate, evincing meditative luminosity and imagination.

Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz
Ernst-Koref-Promenade 1
4020 Linz
Austria
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Selection of further exhibitions in: Austria

29.01.2016 - 26.06.2026
Albertina Museum Wien
Albertinaplatz 1
Wien

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ARNULF RAINERNew Works on Paper Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz Main address: Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz Ernst-Koref-Promenade 1 4020 Linz, Austria Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz Ernst-Koref-Promenade 1 4020 Linz, Austria Arnulf Rainer">Arnulf Rainer is considered one of the most influential, but also one of the most innovative and provocative artists in Austria. His art is just as complex as it is contradictory. As someone always pushing the limits and as an anti-artist, Rainer has been working since the 1950s on overpaintings. His tireless striving for expansion includes serial work, but also the attempt to block out consciousness in an intensive process of creating.

The new works, created primarily in Tenerife and exhibited now for the first time, are intensely colorful and joyful. They appear delicate or wild, sometimes mad, almost enlightened. For Rainer, the tension between painting ground and overpainting, the probing of light, color, gesture and format is a never-ending artistic challenge. Whereas earlier it was mostly expressive, frequently black pictures full of restlessness and doubt that were the order of the day, the most recent works are comparatively cheerful, delicate, evincing meditative luminosity and imagination.
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