Surrealism exhibition in Bad Tölz: A world beyond the real

Between abstract and surreal: The exhibition "Elusive Unreality" in the "Pashmin Art Gallery" in Tölz gives the public access to the unreal.

Bad Tölz

– “Elusive Unreality” – i.e. something that is difficult to grasp – is the title of a group exhibition by three European artists that has now opened in the “Pashmin Art Gallery” in Tölz.

The well-known Hamburg-based gallery owner Nour Nouri, who only opened his Tölz branch in July last year with a work show by the local relief artist Daniel Fuchs, has since regularly followed up: At intervals he presented interesting painters and sculptors, including one with Günther Uecker of the most important German artists of the post-war period.

Exhibition by Victor Hagea, Andrea Donner and Constantina Seracin

Works by Victor Hagea, Andrea Donner and Constantina Seracin are now on display – three interesting artists from different generations who, in different ways, distance themselves from conventional perspectives and evade rational thinking.

What happens when you look at things differently?

Then abstraction or surrealism comes into play: the abstract represents more of a concept or a feeling than reality.

Surrealism takes a different approach, embedding elements of the unreal or impossible in supposedly normal, real settings.

Sensitively introduced by curator Davood Khazale, the three artists show how experimenting with the abstract and surreal can take the viewer into another world beyond the real.

The presenter Christine Adler, who was very impressed by this “journey into unreality”, felt the same way.

Gallery in Bad Tölz shows surrealistic paintings

The 74-year-old Victor Hagea is a German painter of Romanian origin, originally from Transylvania, who moved to Paris in 1985 and later to southern Germany.

According to his gallerist, Hagea creates works of art with the clout of a "drama in three acts".

Using set pieces from different epochs of painting, he composes astounding, mythical, quasi-antique stagings when, for example, he relates the Venus de Milo, Titan Kronos and Auguste Rodin's thinker to one another like a jigsaw puzzle.

The 41-year-old artist Constantina Seracin, who now lives in Switzerland, also comes from Romania and has framed female figures in her pictures.

Thanks to her unusual point of view, her peculiar portraits in acrylic paints - such as Cleopatra, Marilyn Monroe or a woman who seems to melt into a cello - become symbols of female eros.

"Pashmin Art Gallery" in Bad Tölz has great potential

The 56-year-old Swiss artist Andrea Donner amazes with large, impasto color gradients.

She pieces old fabrics and canvases together and uses different natural materials such as ash, lime, earth and wax to create unique, unmistakable works of art that breathe new life into the ephemeral and trigger emotions in the viewer.

The "Pashmin Art Gallery" undoubtedly has the potential to radiate far beyond Bad Tölz, but does not seem to be so well networked here that it has reached the public consciousness.

The local arts and culture community has not yet taken proper notice of this.

The exhibition in the "Pashmin Art Gallery" at Tölzer Säggasse 7 is open until March 4th from Monday to Friday from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. and on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. with free admission.

By Rainer Bannier

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