Artist Svenja Deininger in dialogue with the Polish avant-garde of the 20’s

The formal balances and perspective levels in the Viennese artist’s work are inspired by the Architectural Compositions of Władysław Strzemiński, painted almost a century ago.

  • Giulia Ronchi
  • 02 March 2020
  • Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
  • exhibition
  • 2020

Painting, sculpture, architecture, syntax: everything is wisely mixed in the practice of Viennese artist Svenja Deininger, with her exhibition “Two thoughts” at the Pattern Room of the Collezione Maramotti Collection in Reggio Emilia.

Her works are conceived as a single “sentence”, in which each one represents a fundamental element. The shapes and colors are combined together through a spatial balance given also by the texture of the applied materials. Deininger mingles chalk, marble powder or glue with oil colors to create porous surfaces, in relief, thus capturing the natural light (the only one she works with). She operates both on the front and on the back of her canvases.

For this project, Deininger was inspired by the Architectural Compositions of Polish avant-garde Władysław Strzemiński. Four of his artworks are showcased in the exhibition, loaned from the Muzeum Sztuki of Łódź.

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  • Two Thoughts
  • Svenja Deininger
  • from the 8th of March to the 26th of July 2020
  • Collezione Maramotti
  • Via Fratelli Cervi, 66, Reggio Emilia
Courtesy: Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York/Aspen. Photo: Markus Wörgötter.

Svenja Deininger, Untitled, 2019, oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm.

Courtesy: Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York/Aspen. Photo: Markus Wörgötter.

Svenja Deininger, Untitled, 2018, oil on linen, 269,5 x 180 cm.

Courtesy: Galerie Martin Janda, Wien. Photo: Markus Wörgötter.

Svenja Deininger, Untitled, 2020, oil on linen, 230 x 150 cm.

Courtesy: Federica Schiavo Gallery, Milano. Photo: Markus Wörgötter.

Svenja Deininger, Untitled, 2020, oil on linen, 230 x 155 cm.

Courtesy: Galerie Martin Janda, Wien. Photo: Markus Wörgötter.

Svenja Deininger, Untitled, 2020, oil on linen, 28 x 21 cm.

Courtesy: Ewa Sapka-Pawliczak & Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź.

Władysław Strzemiński, Architectural Composition 8b, 1928-1929, oil on canvas, 96 x 60 cm.

Courtesy: Ewa Sapka-Pawliczak & Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź.

Władysław Strzemiński, Architectural Composition 6b, 1928, oil on canvas, 96 x 60 cm.

Photo: Julian Mullan.

Svenja Deininger.

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