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L.A. Galerie Lothar Albrecht
Domstraße 6
60311 Frankfurt am Main
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CH-6301 Zug
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aktuelle Ausstellung / current exhibition
vorausgegangene Ausstellung
/ previous exhibition
07.03. - 03.05. 2008
Wilson Shieh und Michael Ziegler
Wilson Shieh
Swimmer 1,2,3,4
Gouache on paper, Each 66 ¥ 49 cm
Wilson Shieh studied the traditional Gongbi (fine-line) painting technique, in which he has acquired a masterly level close to that of the great artists of the Song and Tang periods. He says that he aims at filling the classical Chinese aesthetics of his traditionally rather small-format pictures with modern or contemporary subjects and contents. Yet it also quietly but clearly causes provocation in a society that is definitely still Victorian prudish.
"If one wished to have pictures to illustrate the Austrian writer Robert Musil's famed adolescence novel The Confusions of Young Törless, no one would be more apt to draw them than Michael Ziegler, this reclusive artist living and working in Innsbruck. His fine pencil drawings, concentrated on the line and sometimes covering the sheet like a spider's web, take their iconographic inventory from the artist's subconscious, where pornographic photographs mingle with the drawings and paintings of old masters, where film stills merge with images evoked by literary texts and continue to have mysterious effects which at times even their creator cannot explain." (except from a text by Peter Weiermair)
