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"Neo-Neo-Baroque" eye candy and the power of illusions. About the works by Regina Draschl
Chris Gerbing "Everyone will find paradise, that corresponds to his truth" (Regina Draschl)1 Regina Draschl creates baroque images in her opulence: Full of colour and Overwand, a sea of flowers, whose abundance lies in the fragments of space,Brockat hangings and candlesticks continue, into which she is easily clothed – in a very shiShifting Time_Frames" Adam and Eve – fits in, as in
"dreamTIME I", a female back figure reminiscent of Vermeer obviously dreamed away from here and now. With these pictures Draschl stands in the tradition of imagination, artists from paradise as a place of longing par excellence over the centuries and have taken it over. This is connected with the desire to go to another world, also in a new world.
other environments. Not since Paul Gauguin and his South Sea paintings of palm-bearing islands in the South Sea and also the Goethe's yearningful "Do you know the land where the lemons bloom" we realize that we are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who love them? Often connect paradise with something far from ourselves. An illusion that Draschl with of their images, linked to current yearning symbols, only to be able to see them. to reveal paradise lies in one's own self, in one's own truth (to live) and takes place in the Here & Now, if we can only see it. ririding the wave" is the title of a recent work by Regina Draschl, who, like many of her friends, is the author of the book.
Works are painted, yet photographs are. Inspired by these latest photo collages from a trip to La Gomera, and they show an insight into such never before seen Worlds. The moment of the unreal-beauty that carries an enchanted atmosphere and tries to capture them and banish them on canvas, as well as the vague, undetermined, not tangible, gets its place, it sets it in scene by overlapping, coating and multiple exposure. At the same time Draschl directs – with the credit card, on which her beauty apparently surfs weightlessly, as well as with the squeaky-red polymer pet – the view that yearnings and dreams always are fed by the reality that surrounds us right now, in which we believe and with their We measure scale, also when looking at a picture Regina Draschl questions
and shows to the viewer that, not least in the context of the experience, age of "WYSIWYG" (What you see is what you get), in which the computer at least seems to reflect what we see not to believe unconditionally in this promise is. Because by presenting to the viewer the delusions that the eye in the form of visual It sends signals to the brain and we accept them as true through knowledge and experience.