Wolfgang Wirth

Austrian artist Wolfgang Wirth shows on Espacio Algeciras of Galeria Magda Bellotti his work Little birds of Passage. After Los Angeles, Warsaw, Vienna and Innsbruck; Madrid is the 5th city in which the artist shows his project of travelling pictures. The installation of  these (site-specific) in the environment and the public areas of each exhibition space is documented with photographs. About 30 small size pictures are exhibited together  with his installation´s photographs.

The pictures mostly represent large dark surfaces inhabited by birds or other actors painted in a almost realistic way although  often only hinted. The pictures use the painted space as a possible space for  a temporary location. From another point of view, his work is located within the pictorial system.

Wolfgang Wirth´s work revolves around the matter of space, its external and internal borders and the possibility of trespassing them. Location and displacement, movement and pilgrimage, connection, space crossing and migration, displacement and dissolution of boundaries are dealt with through painting, although painting itself as a material medium is at the same time an object of reflection. 

Wolfgang Wirth´s installations put his pictures in the context of the external reality, the real natural space. This way they approach the duality of paintings as physical objects as well as imaginary images. The photographs, mostly in black or white, become simulacra in which the figures represented in his paintings, such as te the migratory birds, can change with apparent easiness from one reality to another.

 

Studies

University of Music and Arts – Mozarteum Salzburg / Painting Department

University of Applied Arts – Vienna / MAS

Member of the artist´s collective Alpine Gothic

Lives and works in Vienna, Austria

 

Exhibitions

2010  

das logikmodel / Andechsgalerie / Innsbruck/Austria

2010  

open space LBOP#4 / Stadturmgalerie / Innsbruck/Austria

2009  

LBOP#3 / Charim Galerie Showroom / Vienna/Austria

2008  

"Minimals“ / Stadtturmgalerie / Innsbruck/Austria

2008  

LBOP#2 – some place or other / lokal_30 / Warsaw/Poland

2008  

LITTLE BIRDS OF PASSAGE#1 / Alison Cortson Studio / Los Angeles/USA

2007  

Grenzziehungen? / Kunstpavillon / Innsbruck/Austria

2007  

Nominiertenausstellung Eisler Preis 2007 / Tresor – BA-CA / Vienna/Austria

2007  

acht positionen / RLB Kunstbrücke / Innsbruck/Austria

2006  

Wolfgang Wirth at lokal_30 / lokal_30 / Warsaw/Poland

2006  

Daniel Pitin, Wolfgang Wirth / Charim Galerie / Vienna/Austria

2005  

HangART-7 Edition 1 / Hangar-7 / Salzburg/Austria

2004  

come closer / Galerie 5020 / Salzburg/Austria

2003  

trans/archive, Schleifen des Bedeutens / Galerie 5020 / Salzburg/Austria

2006  

Artist in Residence / lokal_30 / Warschau/Poland

 

Projects and exhibitions with Alpine Gothic

2010  

10.000 Edelweiß / Kölner Haus / Serfaus/Austria

2010  

Schöne Aussichten / Wahre Landschaft / Radstadt/Austria

2010  

Brettl vor´m Kopf (Performance) / Kittycorner - be my guest / Vienna/Austria

2009  

MASKA / Österreichisches Kulturforum Warschau / Warsaw/Poland

2009  

No Sound of Music / Salzburger Kunstverein / Salzburg/Austria

2009  

Splittergruppe Almrausch (Symposion) / Wienstation / Vienna/Austria