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Brigitte Kowanz (1957 - 2022), one of Austria's most renowned and important artists, will be exhibited at the Schlossmuseum Linz. Born in Vienna, she studied sculpture at the University of Applied Arts from 1975 to 1980, and even then her main interest was in the light-generated media of video, film and photography. In demarcation from the figurative and neo-expressionist tendencies in the new wild painting, she sought an analytical examination of light-related phenomena of perception and their effects on a traditional concept of the image, which she questioned and consistently expanded from the very beginning.

Room installations with black light spaces were created, for which Brigitte Kowanz developed paper and canvas works painted with phosphorescent and fluorescent pigments that hung freely in the room. Light served Brigitte Kowanz as a primary artistic design medium, as a material and information carrier for images, signs and messages. The interaction between light, language, space and time was essential in her conceptual art, which was never meant to be unambiguous but could be received on different levels.

Brigitte Kowanz's works are strongly site-specific and so the multi-award-winning artist has dealt intensively with the spatial and architectural conditions in the Linz Schlossmuseum.

ISTR is a coherent spatial installation on which Brigitte Kowanz worked until shortly before her death and which is now being realised according to her designs.

Brigitte Kowanz
ISTR
Schlossmuseum Linz, AT
29 April - 2 October 2022

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