Loys egg & oswald tschirtner
Artworks by Austrian artist Oswald Tschirtner are currently on display at the Gugging Gallery (Austria) alongside those by Loys Egg.
Born from Loys Egg’s idea, the exhibition will aim at creating a joyful dialogue, producer of humor and togetherness. Loys Egg’s sculptures are chosen to create an exciting dialogue with Oswald Tschirtner’s works on paper and canvas-simple structures, like his famous “head-footers”, that are now known to everyone-and engender a ping-pong in a humorous and touching way.
Curated by Nina Katschnig and Irina Katnik.
O.T. - as he signed - was an emblematic artist of the Gugging hospital, where he was interned because of the psychosis he began to suffer upon returning from the siege of Stalingrad. His drawings, antitheses of the horror vacui, are characterized by their minimalism, the purity, the economy of means and effects, the sense of balance and space. Admired by Michel Thévoz, who devoted several feature articles to him, he also fascinated David Bowie and Brian Eno, who met and collected him. His works can be found in countless collections, such as those of Arnulf Rainer (Austria), abcd/Bruno Decharme (France) or the Pinacothèque Hervé Lancelin (Luxembourg).