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Anita Leisz, Untitled, 2017 Gypsum fibreboard, wax, wood Photo: Sebastiano Pellion di Persano
Exhibition
Anita Leisz
25 Jun 2022 – 4 Sep 2022
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Free admission
Address
- 2 Burgring
- Graz
Steiermark - 8010
- Austria
Travel Information
- Bus line 30, stop Tummelplatz and 31, 39 stop Maiffredygasse
- Tramline 1 and 7, stop Maiffredygasse
Anita Leisz:
25.6.–4.9.2022
Exhibition Opening: 24.6.2022
About
The visual language of Anita Leisz’s sculptures, objects, and installations oscillates between echoes of Minimal Art, nonrepresentational painting, and industrialism. Leisz relies on rather restrained materials, cold colors, and forms. Construction materials such as various forms of fiberboard, metals, and sheet metals are prepared in several steps and placed in relation to spaces and viewers.
This style finds a rift in the emphasis on randomly or unintentionally created traces on surfaces, which often testify to use or wear from past history such as traces of shipping, shoe prints or scratches. With these deliberate artistic interventions, Leisz challenges perception and provokes a questioning of visibility and invisibility. In doing so, the artist deliberately dispenses entirely with narrative references and focuses attention completely on the relationship between object, space, and viewer.
The exhibition project is being organized as part of the repercussions of the artist winning the Würdigungspreis für Bildende Kunst des Landes Steiermark (Styrian State Prize in Recognition of Fine Art) in 2020. Anita Leisz’s exhibition will be a new production.
