Alfred Klinkan
Wasnichtallessorauskommt
Neue Galerie Graz, Joanneumsviertel, 8010 Graz
Curated by: Günther Holler-Schuster
Press tour: 25.09.2019, 11 am
Opening: 26.09.2019, 7 pm
Duration: 27.09.2019–16.08.2020
Info exhibition: +43-316/8017-9100
Info press: +43-316/8017-9213 and DDI -9211
presse@museum-joanneum.at
About the exhibition
Wilfried Skreiner, at the time Director of the Neue Galerie, defined a group of young artists in the early 1980s, Siegfried Anzinger, Hubert Schmalix, Alois Mosbacher, Josef Kern, Erwin Bohatsch and Alfred Klinkan, whose art he described as ‘New Painting’. The sensuous-narrative painting experience of this generation was seen as a counter-force to Conceptual Art, which was perceived as inimical to the object and exclusively based on the idea of the artwork. Alfred Klinkan died around 25 years ago; in 2020 he would have been 70 years old. He was a pioneer of the ‘New Painting’ movement in Austria, of which he was subsequently a key exponent. In the early 1970s he studied in Vienna at the Academy of Fine Arts under Josef Mikl and Wolfgang Hollegha, focusing on painting, which in times of Performance, Conceptual and the incipient Media Art already seemed anachronistic. The provocative undertone of his early works, in surprising contrast to the apparent naivety of his pictorial language, is explained by the imprint left by the dynamics of 1968, the year of protest. Klinkan concentrated such art trends as Viennese Actionism, the Wirklichkeiten, or Pop Art in general, into something anarchic, autonomous. The ambiguous naivety of his art and the humour associated with it were often transferred to real life, which Klinkan often saw as a story, a comic, or indeed a miracle. Long live Rock ’n’ Roll, long hair, warm beer, and the last ciggie!
Press material
Downloads
- Press-release-Klinkan-E.pdf (10 KB)
- Accompanying-Booklet-Klinkan-E.pdf (11 KB)
You will find the exhibiton catalogue available for download here.
Images
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Group photos
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Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner
Holler-Schuster-Klinkan.jpg (1.89 MB)

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Gruppenfoto02.jpg (2.02 MB)
Subject
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printed by Roger Vandaele (Panter Pers), Antwerp, each ca. 90 × 60 cm, Neue Galerie Graz, UMJ, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner
Klinkan-Ausstellungsplakat.jpg (1.05 MB)

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Eroeffnung-Klinkan-01.jpg (1.52 MB)

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Eroeffnung-Klinkan-02.jpg (1.7 MB)

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Eroeffnung-Klinkan-03.jpg (1.44 MB)

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Eroeffnung-Klinkan-04.jpg (1.6 MB)

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Eroeffnung-Klinkan-05.jpg (1.43 MB)

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Eroeffnung-Klinkan-06.jpg (1.52 MB)

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Eroeffnung-Klinkan-07.jpg (1.59 MB)

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Eroeffnung-Klinkan-08.jpg (2.07 MB)

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Eroeffnung-Klinkan-09.jpg (1.71 MB)

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Eroeffnung-Klinkan-10.jpg (1.53 MB)

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Eroeffnung-Klinkan-11.jpg (1.98 MB)

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Eroeffnung-Klinkan-12.jpg (2.15 MB)

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Eroeffnung-Klinkan-13.jpg (2.57 MB)

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Eroeffnung-Klinkan-14.jpg (1.7 MB)

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Eroeffnung-Klinkan-15.jpg (1.9 MB)

Material

Mixed media on wrapping paper on cardboard, 199 × 150 cm, Neue Galerie Graz, UMJ, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner
Klinkan-Gedeck-fuer-sieben-Zwerge.jpg (5.07 MB)

Oil on canvas, 205 × 155 cm, Neue Galerie Graz, UMJ, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner
Klinkan-Ohne-Titel-Sommerserie.jpg (3.92 MB)

Oil on canvas, 282 × 213 cm, Loan of Fred Bervoets, Antwerp, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner
Bervoets-Klinkan-Von-den-oesterreichischen-Bergen-zum-Antwerpener-Zoo.jpg (0.91 MB)

Mixed media on wrapping paper, 199 × 150 cm, Neue Galerie Graz, UMJ, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner
Klinkan-Blumenstrauss.jpg (0.9 MB)

Oil on canvas, 200 × 200 cm, Estate Alfred Klinkan, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner
Klinkan-Colorfieldpainter.jpg (1.02 MB)

Oil on canvas, 198 × 150 cm, LENTOS Kunstmuseum, Linz, Photo: Reinhard Haider
Klinkan-Der-grosse-Baer.jpg (3.4 MB)

Oil on canvas, 127 × 102 cm, Estate Alfred Klinkan, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner
Klinkan-Der-Milchtraum.jpg (1.05 MB)

Oil on canvas, 200 × 150 cm, Galerie bei der Albertina ▪ Zetter, Vienna, Photo: © Galerie bei der Albertina ▪ Zetter, Vienna
Klinkan-Die-Baerennfrau.jpg (3.25 MB)

Oil on canvas, 200 × 150 cm, mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna, on loan of Artothek des Bundes 1981, Photo: © mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna, on loan of Artothek des Bundes
Klinkan-Gelber-Schamane.jpg (5.11 MB)

Triptych, oil on canvas, each 315 × 200 cm, Private Collection Graz, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner
Klinkan-Goldregen.jpg (0.84 MB)

Oil on canvas, 198 × 139 cm, Estate Alfred Klinkan, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner
Klinkan-Jaeger-mit-Schneeschuhen.jpg (1.15 MB)

Tempera on paper, 88 × 62 cm, Neue Galerie Graz, UMJ, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner
Klinkan-Rotes-Tier.jpg (2.34 MB)

Oil on canvas, 90 × 100 cm, Neue Galerie Graz, UMJ, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner
Klinkan-Sante-3-Die-drei-Wittgensteins.jpg (1.06 MB)

Oil on canvas, 200 × 100 cm, Stift Admont, Museum, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner
Klinkan-Schrotthaufenkrampus.jpg (0.52 MB)

Oil on canvas, 130 × 100 cm, Estate Alfred Klinkan, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner
Klinkan-Selbstportraet-mit-Steinen.jpg (0.58 MB)

Oil on canvas, 100 × 70 cm, Galerie bei der Albertina ▪ Zetter, Vienna, Photo: © Galerie bei der Albertina ▪ Zetter, Vienna
Klinkan-Sonnenschirmportrait.jpg (0.74 MB)

Dispersion und acrylic on canvas, 200 × 149 cm, Galerie bei der Albertina ▪ Zetter, Vienna, Photo: © Galerie bei der Albertina ▪ Zetter, Vienna
Klinkan-Stillleben-ausser-es-kommt-der-Wind.jpg (0.76 MB)

Oil on canvas, 100 × 70 cm, Estate Alfred Klinkan, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner
Klinkan-Zuckerbaeckercity.jpg (0.83 MB)

Oil on canvas, 315 × 199,5 cm, Neue Galerie Graz, UMJ, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner
Klinkan-das-Brouwerlied.jpg (0.58 MB)

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Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner
Ausstellungsansicht-Klinkan-01.jpg (2.08 MB)

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Ausstellungsansicht-Klinkan-02.jpg (1.51 MB)

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Ausstellungsansicht-Klinkan-03.jpg (1.29 MB)

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Ausstellungsansicht-Klinkan-04.jpg (1.74 MB)

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Ausstellungsansicht-Klinkan-05.jpg (1.5 MB)

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Ausstellungsansicht-Klinkan-06.jpg (1.89 MB)

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Ausstellungsansicht-Klinkan-07.jpg (1.51 MB)

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Ausstellungsansicht-Klinkan-08.jpg (1.72 MB)

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Ausstellungsansicht-Klinkan-09.jpg (1.61 MB)

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Ausstellungsansicht-Klinkan-10.jpg (1.1 MB)

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Ausstellungsansicht-Klinkan-11.jpg (1.4 MB)

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Ausstellungsansicht-Klinkan-12.jpg (1.97 MB)

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Ausstellungsansicht-Klinkan-13.jpg (1.54 MB)

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Ausstellungsansicht-Klinkan-14.jpg (1.32 MB)
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Downloads
- Universalmuseum_Joanneum_Langtext_ENGL_2019.pdf (21 KB)
- UMJ-Programme-2020-E.pdf (2,164 KB)