Realities in Art – Ingeborg G. Pluhar, Christian Skrein
Collages and Photographs
To this day, photos are mistaken for reality. And yet they are always products of design, both in the choice and framing of the shot itself and in its reproduction (for example through cropping and post-processing). Here we have chosen some works by artists attempting to investigate the nature of the picture itself. They use photographic techniques to show how imagination and reality relate to each other.
Ingeborg G. Pluhar and Christian Skrein belonged to a young generation that was questioning the prevailing rules. Their pictures look behind the scenes, confounding our everyday perception.
Art as Revolution
Austrian society of the late 1960s was predominantly conservative but there was a small group bubbling with rebellion. In Austria, the great social conflicts of the 1968 generation were fought using promarily artistic means.
Ingeborg G. Pluhar (real name Göschl-Pluhar), born 1944, studied with Fritz Wotruba at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna; from 1979 she was a researcher and teacher at the Institute of Art and Design at the Technical University of Vienna. Numerous exhibitions, including in 1966 in the Galerie Nächst St. Stephan and in 1988 in the Secession, Vienna.
Christian Skrein (real name: Skrein-Bumballa), born 1945, studied at the Higher Graphical Federal Education and Research Institute in Vienna and became an Independent artist in 1966. Initially a Fashion photographer, he became famous as an Advertising photographer and filmmaker. Numerous publications Show him as a collector of photographs focusing on amateurs and Cuba.
ⓘ On display in the main exhibition.
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