Exhibition
Martha Jungwirth
3 Oct 2017 – 4 Nov 2017
Event times
Tuesday – Saturday: 11am – 6pm
Cost of entry
Free exhibition
Address
- 4-8 Helmet Row
- London
- EC1V 3QJ
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Tube / Metro: Old Street / Barbican
Martha Jungwirth's first solo exhibition of recent paintings in the UK.
About
Martha Jungwirth's exhibition will open from 3 October to 4 November 2017, presenting a series of new paintings. Although having worked as an artist for the past five decades and occupying an important place in Austrian art history, Jungwirth has only recently come to wider international attention.
Martha Jungwirth (born in 1940) has occupied an important position in Austrian art history since the 1960s… After her studies at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna from 1956 to 1963, Jungwirth appeared in public with works in various media, such as pencil drawings, watercolors, and works in oil and ink. In 1968 she was the sole woman among the founding members of the loose “Wirklichkeiten” [“Realities”] group of artists, yet even then she pursued her own, distinctive path, oscillating between gesturally abstract and formal compositions. Jungwirth’s painting process emerges from a combination of intuitive spontaneity and control of her aesthetic principles at the same time. This tension between the unconscious and the calculated, between gesture, form, trace and color, provides the environment for the artist not only to examine mirror images of her inner moods, but also the essential basic principles of painting.
Martha Jungwirth’s characteristic compositions, which perform an elegant balancing act on the thin line between realism and abstraction, and distinguish themselves through their eruptive, gestural style as well as their powerful colors, are poetic and dramatic representations of experiences, emotions and memories that convey a deep awareness of the immeasurableness of reality.