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Harald Gangl (Klagenfurt 1959) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and has devoted himself entirely to abstraction in his painting. Molino is the preferred support material, which the artist first stretches tightly and primes with chalk before the color takes shape on the canvas. With the aid of brushes, rollers, palette knives, and his bare hands, Gangl applies paint layer by layer, scratching and scraping it off in places. What remains are finely nuanced, subtle traces of painting that seem to flow into one another, creating depth and forming painterly transitions. Harald Gangl creates an independent, atmospheric and poetic pictorial world, that is characterized by the interplay of light, color and form. The eye is not able to hold on to any real subjects: it remains open whether, for example, landscapes, water surfaces or light reflections spread out on the canvas. In any case, Harald Gangl's abstract compositions evoke the most diverse associations, while the viewers are all united by a “sensual intoxication of looking” (Silvie Aigner).
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