Frühling auf Rhye
Solo exhibition at Café Felix
from May 28 to September 15, 2022
Café Felix
Bahnhofplatz 3
2103 Langenzersdorf
The exhibition “Frühling auf Rhye” (Spring on Rhye) took place in Café Felix which is located in the recently renovated premises of the historic train station building in Langenzersdorf. The exhibition was named after my cosmic artwork “Frühling auf Rhye“ which refers to the fantasy world of Freddie Mercury that was featured prominently in Queen’s first hit “Seven Seas of Rhye“. The idea of including the season in the name came to me when I read an article with the evocative title “It’s Spring on the Dwarf Planet Ceres”, illustrated with a bare and cratered planet’s surface. Fascinated by the contrast between the blossoming title and the sparse impression of the picture, I adapted this title and used the fantasy world “Rhye” because the band Queen had a major influence on me at this point in my life. The creation of the artwork in early 2019 marks the ascension from the darkest abysses of the soul that I was forced to deal with in 2017 and 2018. And the exhibition “Frühling auf Rhye” is dedicated to this painful ascent but also to the new beginning that came with it. Accordingly, many artworks from this period were part of the exhibition. An additional focus was on cosmic works, in part also from subsequent time periods.
Exhibited artworks
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The centerpiece of the exhibition was in a room that is situated a few steps above the entrance level and was largely dedicated to my depictions of space. It showed small-format works of art from 2019, more complex and larger works from the beginning of 2020 and a series of three artworks with an inverted color design.
The exhibition was complemented by selected abstract works in different formats which underlined the features of the café. The staircase was framed with smaller upright artworks, while larger wall surfaces offered space for 80x80cm artworks.
A special cornerstone of the exhibition was the light/dark-duality of the opposite-colored artworks „Sommernachtstraum“ (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and “Kepler’s Dream”. It epitomizes the theme of the exhibition: spring that follows darkness but also the multiplicity of opportunities that can arise from a period of darkness, visualized by the points of light at the center of „Kepler’s Dream“.
