The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao will open a retrospective exhibition of the Austrian artist on June 7 Martha Jungwirth (Vienna, 1940), which brings together nearly seventy works that span six decades of work by this creator, known for her peculiar “abstract vocabulary based on the physical world,” as the museum itself describes.
The works brought together in the exhibition, which is curated by Lekha Hileman Waitoller, range from 1976 to 2023 and include a selection of watercolors and oil paintings, as well as three artist books covering almost 50 years of considerable production.
From the Guggenheim Museum they have highlighted in a note that Jungwirth’s paintings and drawings “travel masterfully along the subtle border between realism and abstraction” since, they have stressed, “his art does not aim to capture a story or a linear visual representation , but is characterized by explosive and gestural strokes and vibrant tones that serve to express emotions.”
No titlefrom the series Spittelauer Lände (Ohne Titelaus der Spittelauer Lände Series), 1993. © Martha Jungwirth, Bilbao, 2024
His early works show a “particular approach to the visceral and the subjective”, characterized by “a fusion of abstract expressionism with a strong emotional component, which lays the foundations for the development of his peculiar aesthetics.”
Jungwirth’s paintings have a “decidedly nonconformist” style and are made on unexpected media, such as cardboard, ledgers, or brown paper.
Source: Eitb
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