Herbert Hinteregger

Day and Night and an unwritten Sentence

We are pleased to present Herbert Hinteregger's seventh solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition shows new works and aspects of his artistic work. 

A horizontal line of works on paper interrupted by paintings stretches across two rooms, like a sentence or the association of a codification. Hinteregger's conceptual pictorial language connects his perception of nature, in which he compresses the outside world through the inner world, with the perception of today's digital image processing.

The restrained, muted colors of the paintings, which show a shift in the black square – which comments on Malewitsch's Black Square - contrast concisely with the pop-like colorfulness of the paper works. In the latter, the fluorescent stripes and the phosphor element, which also have a painterly quality, create a vivid coloration and a shining radiance in the dark. 

A rhythmic beat is reflected in the image composition of the paper works and in the intervals of the spacial presentation. The associative image finding that arises during the process of drawing is neither preconceived nor planned, nor does it follow a calculated composition.

Then take me disappearin’ through the smoke rings of my mind
Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves
The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves
Let me forget about today until tomorrow

—Bob Dylan, Mr. Tambourineman, 1965