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The current state of emergency around the corona virus is the impulse for us to launch the special exhibition format NO OPENING. The exhibition series will take place without openings, completely reduced to the essentials, namely art and its observation. Instead of thematic guidelines, isolation becomes the common denominator.

Inside-Inside=outside

An assemblage dealing with inside and outside and what lies in between.

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David Mase´s work is multi-layered and moves freely between abstract painting, graphics, sculpture and site-specific installations. His current works can be described as abstract rooms in which I bring together different genres of painting and collage, combine digital and graphic elements with gestural painting or bring together everyday materials to three-dimensional assemblages.

Committed to the concrete, addicted to abstraction. "Schemes" - Markus Grabenwöger's current series of works places the viewer's sovereignty of interpretation at the centre of the present work. The ever-present horizontal refers to the omnipresent landscape motif. Light, nature, beauty are the impulses that assign direction and amount to the paintings in this series.

With Fear / A vigil for monsters

An immersive Installation by Claudia Six.

Think about the fear of the monsters under your bed, the monsters on the streets, in your house and in your head. Your fear of the ghosts in the cellar, of the ones from the past and from the future.

Imagine all of them together, in one room and you inside that room.
Can you sit with them for a while?
Now tell me about your fears. About the person you think you are and the one you want to become. Bring your ghosts from the past.

And let‘s light a candle together, facing our monsters and shed some tears, burying our ghosts.

Claudia Six is creating a room out of your fears and stories. (and out of her own, because these are the ones she knows best)
Share your fears: www.claudiasix.com

You are also invited to bring votive offerings for your fears.
Let’s create this imaginary moment together.

#withfear #letsbeafraidtogether #iamyouare #claudiasix

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Artist Bio
Claudia Six was raised in a very small Austrian town surrounded by mountains and forests. As the only child in the neighbourhood, she soon discovered her deep connection with strange things. Be it the spooky old cat-lady next door, baby frogs in the forest, invisible pigs in the cellar, and much more, she found herself bonding with entities and fantasies. At art school, where she studied silkscreen printing and textile/graphic design, she discovered that many other strange creatures live in her imagination. Since then, her first aim has been to get these creatures out of her head and into real life. She does this through sculptures, performances, installations and drawings.

Thomas Mock is a modern panel painter. He prefers to paint on untreated wooden boards. In the his series `Gold`he applies gold-color in a fine and graphically way on the wood panel. Trough a special painting technique, he creates fine structures and shadings, which appear differently from different angles, depending on light incidence.
Thomas Mock, born in 1977, lives and works in Vienna. He has been working as an artist for 25 years, also characterized by his completed architectural studies and the diploma at the Academy of Fine Arts.

Jan Arnold Gallery curator and artist Sebastian Schager will present an Artist Statement at the Parallel Art Fair 2019. - Sponsored by Bud Beers.

Disco Vitae
1,5x3m, acrylic paint, spray paint on canvas
Sebastian Schager 2019

Artist statement
King or king regnant, rēx, rājan, ríg, reiks – however you call it is the title given to a male monarch in a variety of contexts. The Kingdom is established through power, brute force and all means needed to stay in power. Sebastian Schagers interpretation of the topic is separated into three 1,5x1m (Toal of 1,5x3m) canvases painted in highly detailed stencil technique. Each part of the painting provokes the audience in a different way. The center piece for example depicts a mutilated greek goddess with a sword, kind of meshed up the King Arthur legend. Greek style in art history was often misused, especially in neo classicism to refer to terms justice or fairness in politics. As a female part in a world dominated by men stands as a symbol poking into gender issues. The right side of the right panel depicts the kings armory borrowed from an Italian pilaster in roman style with military trophies from a tomb of a war hero. The huge battle scene from an antique sarcophagus covering almost three-fourths of the Painting shows a battle scene between Romans and Barbarians – Remember, barbarians can be any member of a nation judged by some to be less civilized or orderly ...so all the others! On the left the self-proclamed King himself on his holden throne totally shot up – an elbow strike for all hyper ethic kings out there.

In general the piece including the title “Disco Vitae" what means as much as "I live to learn" might be a psychogram of mankind described through the eyes of an artist including a good amount of question-marks and a few punches to the stomach. The sound and light installation, the Friedrich like arranged "broken ice-sheet" lockers as well as the shards from beer bottles with Damocles Sword fuse to a researching into vertigo.

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PARALLEL VIENNA takes place for the seventh time in Vienna from 24th to 29th September 2019 and sticks to its approach of using temporarily vacant buildings as a presentation platform for contemporary art. This year PARALLEL VIENNA takes place in a former office building at LASSALLESTRASSE 5, 1020 Vienna. Instead of the usual booths at art fairs, each exhibitor occupies a separate room of the building in which the exhibition is presented. These site-specific artworks and interventions are the trademark of PARALLEL VIENNA and make the fair a unique and alternative exhibition format outside the “white cube".