Katrin Plavčak

The human figure is present in contemporary art with renewed gusto particularly since the turn of the 21st Century. The works on display by Alex Katz (an American pioneer), Katrin Plavcak, Muntean & Rosenblum, and Elke Krystufek reveal the various ways artists have addressed this issue. The renowned Austrian painter Maria Lassnig is present in the exhibition through two paintings in which her absolutely independent treatment can be evidenced. A lack of distance, social reality, and definition by the current generation on its standing in life, determine the works‘ highly variable content, as well as the denial of a narration (in Alex Katz). Gottfried Helnwein digresses from fleeting contemplation with his Self-portrait: the canvas on display prompts an immediate, impulsive reaction…