Katrin Plavčak

Hör ich ein Wort,
dreh ich die Hand um,
kommt ‘ne Idee,
wie schaut sie aus?

Thomas Raab

Alois Mosbacher’s pictorial world has been figurative since his beginnings and the pictorial space is always “nature”. The emotional-expressionist formal language of the early 1980s is replaced by a very individual pictorial conception.

“Surprisingly, Mosbacher’s art is always personal, individualistic, anarchistic, and at the same time almost “neutral”, almost material-objective. At the same moment, he is able to foreground the subject – as something irrational, as something unpredictable – thereby absolutising its meaning and even annihilating – through the par excellence “painterly” manipulations – the “narrative” that directly connects the painting to the artist’s life.”

Lorand Hegyi

Katrin Plavčak’s paintings invoke figurative references to Dix, Picasso and Lassnig, as well as the practice of naïve painting, in which perspectival and spatial conditions are suspended and multiple narrative strands coexist. She explores images derived from comics, caricature and technical visual media. She follows her interest in Dada or Surrealism; art movements in which the achievements of photography, film and advertising, and thus not least popular magazine culture in methodical interweaving with montage and collage, helped to determine the avant-garde concept.

Andreas Balze