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Künstler/in
Gerlind Zeilner
(geb. 1971 in Mödling, Niederösterreich)
Date2002
ClassificationsMalerei
MediumÖl auf Leinwand
Dimensions125 × 80 cm
Credit LineArtothek des Bundes
Object number26132
DescriptionThe new series of portraits, were painted in real time before her live subjects, the works depict artist friends seated before the viewer. The only environmental details Zeilner adds are lines indicating creases in the room’s architecture, quick brushstrokes suggesting the chairs her subjects sit on, and geometric washes of color representing wall hangings behind them. The energy of the artist’s brushstrokes imparts a sense of movement and liveness upon the representations of her subjects, whose facial expressions communicate mood and tone through their almost ghostly renderings. The portraits are “something like a confrontation between a formal idea – a reduced formal system – and the actual people sitting before me,” said Zeilner of the works.Portraits from Zeilner are artists friends positioned across the room from one another. Each work contains subtleties of gesture, expression, interior architecture, and movement are matched with Zeilner’s preferred choice of materials, egg tempera and oil paint. Zeilner explains that she is drawn to the combination because of their differences of color and surface. While oil paint is heavier, richer, and more reflective, egg tempura produces a matte lightness that bolsters the paintings’ immediacy.
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