Fair for Art Vienna – Aula der Wissenschaften
Wollzeile 27A, A-1010 Wien | täglich 11-19 Uhr
From September 27th to October 5th, the Aula der Wissenschaften will be transformed into an art hotspot.
This time, an exciting mix of figuration and abstraction, reality and imagination awaits you at our booth: works by Ines Riess, Maya Salamatova, and Jaroslav Valečka.
Jaroslav Valečka‘s style is characterized by a distinctive combination of expressive symbolism and naivist morphology, resulting in the creation of an idiosyncratic visual idiom, characterized by contrasting effects in various shades of blue and yellow – which are often compositionally emphasized by the existence of a high view point and, associated therewith, exceptional distance and vastness – rendering countless variations of the pictorial elements nature, architecture and the human figure, accentuated by the depiction of twilight (dusk, dawn and night versus moonlight, as well as snow, respectively water, versus blazing fire conduces to the artistic exploration of the imminence of death and fate. British art historian Edward Lucie-Smith says of his oeuvre:“When we look at them [Valečka’s paintings], we enter a haunted world.”
In her mixed media paintings and sculptures – her “visual diary” – Ines Riess explores the polarities of her experiences. Her artistic practice is characterized by a constant oscillation between revealing and concealing, with the structural complexity of enlarged details playing a central role.
“Abstraction works like poetry for me – allowing for the layering of ‘verses in colors’ to reveal and hide, to scream and whisper. The outcome and its meaning are no longer my artwork, but a dialogue and relationship in which we now are”.
Maya Salamatova, a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in her home country of Turkmenistan, who has been living in Vienna since 2016, currently focuses her artistic work—acrylic and oil on canvas as well as watercolor—on portrait painting and figurative representation of human forms. She repeatedly addresses the fragility of identity and authenticity—the volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity of our existence and our relationships.
“Every painting tells its own story, and no one can predict what that story will be for you. (…) They seem to come alive, breathing energy and vitality into a once-blank canvas. The painting becomes a living presence – sometimes questioning, sometimes smiling ironically (…) For me, every painting is a magical journey into the unknown.“
