EDUARD ANGELI
The Magic of Silence
Galerie Kovacek & Zetter
May 8 to 25, 2024
Stallburggasse 2, 1010 Wien, Tel.: +43/1/5128636
EDUARD ANGELI
The Magic of Silence
May 8th to 25th, 2024
Galerie Kovacek & Zetter is showing a large selection of current works by Eduard Angeli in what is now his third solo exhibition in the gallery.
Eduard Angeli is one of the most important painters in our country today, as evidenced by numerous museum exhibitions in Austria and abroad in recent years. His successful exhibition at the FOUR ARTS Museum in Palm Springs, USA, in summer 2023 will be followed this year by an extensive solo show at the Stadtgalerie Klagenfurt starting on May 17th 2024 and, as a highlight, the major exhibition "Eduard Angeli. SILENTIUM" at the Fondazione Vedova starting on April 12th 2024 simultaneous to the 60th Biennale di Venezia.
In our hectic, fast-moving times Eduard Angeli's motifs from the Venetian lagoon appear to us as pleasant oases of calm. They are characterised by a magical stillness that makes his paintings on canvas and paper so appealing. He manages to create images of melancholy and loneliness, comparable to Caspar David Friedrich, Edward Hopper and Giorgio de Chirico. However, it is not a silence and loneliness that we are afraid of, but one that we long for and that casts a pleasant spell over us.
Man himself appears in the Venetian landscapes only in the form of relics of his activities. These are abandoned houses, an almost windowless nunnery, a lonely kiosk on a wintry beach, boathouses without boats, islands in the distance whose lights glimmer on the horizon, an orphaned buoy in the mirror-smooth water, magical nightscapes under the starry sky and fishing rods, abandoned by their owners, jutting out from the pier. It seems more poetic to the artist to depict only these relics, the human aura that still fills these mysterious places.
Eduard Angeli proves himself a worthy successor to all the great artists who painted in Venice before him. The list is long and ranges from Carpaccio, Bellini, Titian and Tiepolo to Turner, Monet, Sisley and Whistler. Yet no one before him has ever painted Venice like him. He paints a concentrate, an idea of Venice, an archaic image of that city and its lagoon, which seems so familiar to us all and yet is presented here in a way we have never seen before and which at the same time touches us deeply within.
As customary, a wide ranged, scientifically researched catalog will be released alongside the exhibition.
