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Richard Kaplenig (Kötschach-Mauthen 1963) lives and works in Vienna and Faak am See, Carinthia. From 1993 to 1998 he studied with Carlo Di Raco at the Academy of Venice. Earlier, often multi-part works moved in the tension between abstraction and figuration. Several overlapping, gestural, spontaneously applied layers of color create a deep pictorial space, a fictitious landscape. In them, the artist played with personal ciphers and the typological meaning of geometric signs, numbers, letters, and words. In the more recent works, the representational has made a comeback: In front of diffuse, gray-blue backgrounds appear - monumentalized - objects of everyday life: sieves and chains, vials and hooks, screws, nuts, Allen keys and, in general, tools of all kinds. It is not the object itself that is relevant, but the quality of its image, the reflection of light on its surface, and the interplay of light and dark.
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