Xenia Hausner
Dicecream Magazine🔳Xenia Hausner (born 1951 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian artist, recognized internationally as a major artist of her generation.
Her first stage sets were collages built from material collected from condemned houses, junk yards and garbage dumps. She used this raw material to assemble a theatrical space that sprung to life in the clash between naturalistic clarity and abstract interpretation.
Her images are enigmatic, the situations she depicts ambiguous. Xenia Hausner’s large-formatted works are societal descriptions, the situations purposely fragmentary, snapshots from daily life.
In contrast to the classical portrait, the characters in her images play the roles of people other than themselves. They are cast like actors in a play. Her style is expressive and her palette brims over with strong colors, a fact that is apparent in the flesh tones of her protagonists.
Current exhibitions:
DANUBIANA MEULENSTEEN ART MUSEUM, BRATISLAVA, „Shaky Times“ 24.3. – 10.6.2018
FORUM WÜRTH RORSCHACH, CH „Menagerie. An Animal Show from the Würth Collection“, Until 3.2.2019
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