ARTIST CHECK-IN
Curated by Hotel Altstadt Vienna & Jan Arnold Gallery
We are happy to announce an one day exhibition evening at Hotel Altstadt Vienna. (Further days only on request)
Artists: Julia Faber (AT) Rudolf Fitz (AT) Ben Reyer (US) Daan Lievense (NL) Sebastian Schager (AT)
"The boutique Hotel Altstadt Vienna is a curated residence, a patron to the arts and a favourite luxury bolthole of the culture scene." - White Line Hotels
The Viennese fine artist Julia Faber comments in her work on the technical evolution of the human body. She describes the vacillation between alleged necessity, perfection and dependence on these technical enhancements. Through their creative negation of the natural real devices and historical and centemporary inventions drift off into a surrealistic image. Julia Faber interprets technology a spacer to the human body.
Rudolf Fitz aka. grundieweiss_vienna, born 1989 in Vienna, is artist and graphic designer. He started with graffiti about 12 years ago, his interest in art grows more and more, since a few years he is doing his art also on canvas. In the beginning he followed an abstract, expressive style, but it developed to a clear, figurative style on the one hand and on the other hand, into a straight, colorful and geometric style for the other part of his artwork. The main part of his art refers on the classical charme of vienna, most of it is fictitious. He prefers using oil color for his paintings.
Ben Reyer is a collage artist who subverts popular imagery to create fantastical combinations. In his slice and dice technique he uses vintage posters, books, magazines, and other printed matter. Always made by hand, his collages are pieces of history, made for the future, critiquing the now. The artist, born in 1985 in Vienna, Austria, grew up in Los Angeles. He earned his Bachelor of Geography Degree at UCLA in 2008, traveled the world, and now lives and works in Vienna.
Daan Lievense (1986). Living and working in Vienna. Studied multimedia art with the focus on spatial works and installations in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Currently focussed on painting and sculpture. Works are drawn from common images and ideas in daily life.
Sebastian Schager is one of th founding members of Perfekt World (2007-2016), LEAP - Limited Edition Art Prints, Jan Arnold Gallery inside MuseumsQuartier Vienna as well as his own brands Artis.Love / Artis.limited. As a curator he is responsible for the Q21 Artists in Residence at #Streetartpassage (MQ) and the annual exhibition "Living Studio" at frei_raum Exhibition Space (MQ). Next to all projects Sebastian Schager works as an artist in Vienna, Austria since more than 10 years, specialising in complex large scale stencils and his painting method "Wheel of Fortune" involving a randomising mechanism and picture sets.