Wednesday 25 May 2016

Erwin Bohatsch



Erwin Bohatsch at the Albertina, Vienna.

This was the fourth (!) exhibition we saw in one day at the Albertina, and by the time we got to it we were totally 'arted out'. We did not linger long, just long enough to get a general idea and to take some photos. But, I am glad we did because I did not know the work of this artist, and seeing my photographs again has been a pleasure.

Erwin Bohatsch was an influential member of the Austrian group known as the New Savages, an 1980s movement whose aim was to counter the Conceptual art of the 70s, leading to a renewal of the aesthetic phenomenon of painting. Reflecting on Classical Modernism, the group's themes were guided by an interest in approaches to ethnographic research and the theories of Claude Levi-Strauss.

Since the 1990s Bohatsch has increasingly devoted himself to Colour Field painting. With his technique of applying bands of colour to create almost monochromatic paintings, of partially sealing off layers of the image and veiling them with paint, he focuses on colour and light, the determinant aspects of painting.




Untitled, 1999-2001





Untitled, 2014




Untitled, 2014





Untitled, 2014




Untitled, 2009





Untitled, 2009





Untitled, 2002





Untitled, 2004





Night Picture, 1992





Untitled, 2015




Untitled, 1996




Untitled, 2009




Untitled, 2006




Untitled, 1997






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