Johanna Freise: Trunk

JOHANNA FREISE Trunk
VIENNA 14 Apr – 14 May 2022
opening: Wednesday, April 13, 17:00 – 20:00

We are pleased to announce our next show in Vienna by German painter Johanna Freise.
Trunk is the title of a work series on paper, one developed each month during the course of the pandemic, starting in March 2020. Due to a temporary studio situation and the new limitations in everyday life, the artist felt forced to resort to the simplest materials and objects surrounding her, leading to painting subjects such as classical still lifes and happenings from the newspaper, merched together. The exhibition comprises new works on paper and canvas in different sizes. It is accompanied with a text written by Kathrin Heinrich, published on the occassion of the opening.

MARIA BRUNNER LOVELACES
VIENNA SEITENGALERIE 30 Mar – 30 Apr 2022

In the series LOVELACES (2022), whose title is inspired by Ada Lovelace, Brunner deals with the earliest form of computer science, the binary punch card system. In an industrial context, this was first used for the production of woven fabrics, when in 1805 Joseph-Marie Jacquard utilised it to initiate the simplified production of patterned silk. Jacquard fabrics form the basis for Brunner’s oversized works, which are overlapped with a digitally processed design, exposing areas of the fabric (layer 0) or forming a new representation with the patterned fabric underneath (layer 1).