Modern Art - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2017 - 68 Euro Cent

Tobias Pils was born in 1971 in Linz and lives in Vienna. From 1990 to 1994 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He received u. a. the Otto Mauer Prize (1994) and the Anton Faistauer Prize for Painting (2011). He has participated and participated in numerous exhibitions since the beginning of the 1990s. His works have been exhibited at the Landesmuseum Linz (2003), the Vienna Secession (2013), the Art Unlimited Art Basel (2016) and the Chinati Foundation , Marfa (2016) and in the galleries Eva Presenhuber, Gisela Capitain and Capitain Petzel. His images are paradoxes: every work of art is both process and product, profit and loss, impenetrable and transparent, planned and accidental. We see lines, rasters, textures of all kinds, combined with mechanical and organic forms. The objective is suggested, but a clear legibility is prevented. It remains with set pieces and fragments that cause the viewer arbitrary metaphorical connections. Just as the interpretation goes its own way - depending on the intuitive inspirations of the observer - the painting process of Tobias Pils is also an exploration of the intuitive. Starting from a certain motif, Pils is open to everything that happens in the creative process when painting his paintings, so that in the end, his paintings will in the end ideally seem strange to him. Pils refrains from chromatic colors and increases his concentration by working exclusively with shades of gray. They form an entity in Pils' oeuvre and create very unique as well as peculiar moods. The reduced color palette also refers to a conceptual approach similar to monochrome or purely gestural painting. (Source: Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne). The stamp shows the work "Untitled (autumn)" in mixed media on canvas, is 202 by 152 inches tall and comes from 2016.