Museums and Locations
Press
The works from the end of the 1970s - still life, landscape, nudes and portraits - are marked by an increased intensity in color and an expressive style. In the mid 1980s the female nude became a dominant subject following a several months lasting visit to the Philippines. These are isolated figures in a flat, decorative style with pure glowing colors inspired by Asiatic woodcuts. In 1987 Schmalix moved to Los Angeles. Through his encounter with the works of the American Westcoast painting his artistic vocabulary was extended in the 1990s: He produced pictures of Christ with the touch of Mexican folk art, and cityscapes of Los Angeles that follow a geometry of ordered urbanisation and point in the direction of color-field painting. In his recent work Schmalix has withdrawn from this colorist wealth, increasing the lyrical note and works again - in addition to (hunting) still lives - on the theme of the female nude. This latter is used above all for the expression of erotic fantasies of bondage rituals that can be seen in the tradition of the Japanese photographic artist Nobuyoshi Araki.
HUBERT SCHMALIX
HUBERT SCHMALIX Figure and Color
10.02. - 15.04.2007
Image Credits
Duration
10.02. - 15.04.2007
Location
Neue Galerie Graz
Curators
Christa Steinle
Show all
About the
Exhibition
With this solo exhibition the Neue Galerie Graz provides a broad perspective on the work of Hubert Schmalix who has continued his course as a painter consistently down to the present.
Glimpses
14 Zigaretten / 14 Cigarettes, 1976, Öl auf Leinwand / Oil on canvas, 130 x 150 cm, Neue Galerie Graz am Universalmuseum Joanneum
Image Credits
Grünes Gewand / Green Robe, 1989, Öl auf Leinwand / Oil on canvas, 74 x 54 cm, SNS - Sammlung Neuhauser Salzburg
Image Credits
Leben und Sterben / Living and Dying, 1983, Tempera auf Leinwand / Tempera on canvas, 162 x 162 cm, Neue Galerie Graz am Universalmuseum Joanneum
Image Credits
Montescudaio V, 1985, Öl auf Leinwand / Oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm
Privatsammlung / Private Collection
Image Credits
Ohne Titel (Das rote Haus) / Untitled (The Red House), 1990, Öl auf Leinwand / Oil on canvas, 244 x 198,5 cm
Kunsthaus Bregenz
Image Credits
Polster / Pillow, 1987, Öl auf Leinwand / Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 cm, Neue Galerie Graz am Universalmuseum Joanneum - Sammlung Rudi Molacek / Rudi Molacek Collection
Image Credits
