Munchies Art Club shares the group exhibition presented by the Austrian Christine König Gallery.
KRISTOF SANTY | Tronie vrouw, 2022 | Oil on canvas | 45 x 30 cm, framed 47 x 32 x 4,5 cm | Courtesy Christine König Galerie, Vienna and the artist
Participating artists:
Sepp AUER | Silvia BÄCHLI | Slater BRADLEY | Rebecca BRODSKIS | Felix BURGER | Lovis CORINTH | Leslie De MELO | Jimmie DURHAM | Per DYBVIG | Heinz FRANK | Leon GOLUB | G.R.A.M. | Al HANSEN | Cathrin HOFFMANN | Adéla JANSKÁ | Ray JOHNSON | Johanna KANDL | Susanne KLOBASSA | Běla KOLÁŘOVÁ | Susanne KORTAN-GIMBEL | Radenko MILAK | Thérèse MULGREW | Oswald OBERHUBER | Julian OPIE | Sikelela OWEN | Cora PONGRACZ | Arnulf RAINER | Paul RIEDMÜLLER | Derek ROBERTS | Gerhard RÜHM | Kristof SANTY | Mima SCHWAHN | John STARK | Rita VITORELLI et al.
Exhibition view TRONIES, Christine König Galerie, Vienna 2022 | Photo: kunst-dokumentation.com / Manuel Carreon Lopez
The exhibition is on view till 14 Jan 2023
Opening hours:
Tuesday to Friday 10 am - 6 pm
Saturday 11 am - 4 pm
Exhibition view TRONIES, Christine König Galerie, Vienna 2022 | Photo: kunst-dokumentation.com / Manuel Carreon Lopez
Address:
Christine König Galerie
Schleifmühlgasse 1a,
1040 Vienna
Austria
Exhibition view TRONIES, Christine König Galerie, Vienna 2022 | Photo: kunst-dokumentation.com / Manuel Carreon Lopez
Press text:
TRONIES, also known as "character heads“, explore the spectrum of human physiognomy and expression of emotions: often also half figures, whose faces are portrayed as realistically as they are expressively strong.
ADÉLA JANSKÁ | I am watching, you can play, 2022 | Oil and acrylic on canvas | 210 x 140 cm | Courtesy Christine König Galerie, Vienna and the artist
In the past, TRONIES were characterized by a particularly virtuoso use of artistic means and reflected characterological ideas that belong to the early history of psychology.
Exhibition view TRONIES, Christine König Galerie, Vienna 2022 | Photo: kunst-dokumentation.com / Manuel Carreon Lopez
These works are not intended as portraits but as studies of expression, type, physiognomy or an interesting character such as an old man or woman, a young woman, the soldier, the shepherdess, the oriental, or an artist etc.
Exhibition view TRONIES, Christine König Galerie, Vienna 2022 | Photo: kunst-dokumentation.com / Manuel Carreon Lopez
"Don't fight your demons. Your demons are here to teach you lessons. Sit down with your demons and have a drink and a chat and learn their names and talk about the burns on their fingers and scratches on their ankles. Some of them are very nice." (Charles Bukowski)
CATHRIN HOFFMANN | It Hits Hard Then It Slowly Fades, 2021 | Oil and acrylic on ceramic, paint on modelling clay, plastic with steel | 43 x 25 x 19 cm |Courtesy Christine König Galerie, Vienna and the artist
"I never painted dreams.
I painted my own reality.
I paint self-portraits
because I am so often alone,
because I am the person
I know best.
So absurd and fleeting is our step through this world, that only leaves me at peace knowing that I have been authentic, that I have managed to be the most similar to myself." (Frida Kahlo)
Exhibition view TRONIES, Christine König Galerie, Vienna 2022 | Photo: kunst-dokumentation.com / Manuel Carreon Lopez
SIKELELA OWEN | Looking, 2022 | Oil on canvas |120 x 120 cm | Courtesy Christine König Galerie, Vienna and the artist
THÉRÈSE MULGREW | Mollie, 2022 | Oil on canvas | 122 x 91 x 4 cm | Courtesy Christine König Galerie, Vienna and the artist
Exhibition view TRONIES, Christine König Galerie, Vienna 2022 | Photo: kunst-dokumentation.com / Manuel Carreon Lopez
PER DYBVIG | Untitled (drinking on branch), 2019 | Ink on paper | 225 x 130 cm, framed | Courtesy Christine König Galerie, Vienna and the artist | Photo: kunst-dokumentation.com / Manuel Carreon Lopez
HEINZ FRANK | Hirnmaske: Gesicht, 1985 | Stone, marble, concrete | 14 x 16 x 16 cm | Courtesy Christine König Galerie, Vienna | Photo: kunst-dokumentation.com / Manuel Carreon Lopez
LESLIE DE MELO | Der Arbeitslose, 1999 | Oil on canvas | 190 x 140 cm | Courtesy Christine König Galerie, Vienna and the artist
REBECCA BRODSKIS | Wilhelmina, 2022 | Oil on canvas | 100 x 80,5 cm | Courtesy Christine König Galerie, Vienna and the artist
RADENKO MILAK | Claude Cahun, Selfportrait as Devil, 1929, 2020 | Watercolor on paper | 50 x 35 cm | Courtesy Christine König Galerie, Vienna and the artist
Exhibition view TRONIES, Christine König Galerie, Vienna 2022 | Photo: kunst-dokumentation.com / Manuel Carreon Lopez
MIMA SCHWAHN | Puce Beginnings, 2022 | Stucco marble | 43 x 31 cm | Courtesy Christine König Galerie, Vienna and the artist
LEON GOLUB | Untitled, 1985 | Acrylic and litho ink on paper | 83,8 x 55,8 cm | Courtesy Christine König Galerie, Vienna
JOHN STARK | Negative Witch, 2022 | Oil on wood | 70 x 60 cm | Courtesy Christine König Galerie, Vienna and the artist