4th May 18:00 THE ARTISTS´AND GARDENERS´CONTRACTS Carol Robertson & Trevor Sutton (kunstGarten-Artists in Residence 2012)
EDU_ART Students of the HTL für Kunst und Design, Ortweinschule Graz - Agnes Christine Katschner / Irmi & Reinfrid Horn
Opening by Town Councillour Michael A. Grossmann & Artist Talk with the Artists from EDU_ART & THE ARTISTS´AND GARDENERS´CONTRACTS // 20:00 CinéCLUB Privé/zImmerKino: THE PIANO TUNER OF EARTHQUAKES / Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay, GB/D/F 2005 OV
TREVOR SUTTON envisages to make a number between 10 and 15 of small paintings on plant labels, similar to those which are currently used for labelling our roses, to place them in our garden at a time when many of the roses are in bloom:
The rose is nearly always found at the heart of English gardens and it is both my love of roses and your obvious passion for them that I wish to celebrate.
CAROL ROBERTSON (GB) will create tiny works that are discreetly hung on the stems and branches of plants in the garden. Currently she is working with linear arcs or circle motifs that often collide or cross over one another. She would echo these formations, recreating linear 3D "drawings" made with small looped arcs of string/thread/wire. She imagine them being rather like small fragile multi-coloured spiders webs: works that catch the eye, moving in the breeze as they loop from stem to stem or link one plant with another.
Students in their first year of the HTL für Kunst und Design, Ortweinschule Graz (1YHKUO/P) are going to investigate the relationship between art and nature by making drawings, prints and photographs. Taught by Agnes Christine Katschner they work together with the artists Carol Robertson & Trevor Sutton as well as Irmi & Reinfrid Horn. The project confronts the phenomenon of the outside world, what can be seen, and the inside world as a subjective reflexion of the optical impressions. As a result, the project culminates in a great installation that should reveal the intense bondage between art and nature.
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