"Kinder, Mütter, Väter, Patchwork", Volksblatt, 9. März 2021
(über die Ausstellung "we are family" / next comic in der Galerie der Kunstschaffenden, Linz, OÖ Kulturquartier
Bezirks-Rundschau, Bilder aus der Isolation, the trick is to keep breathing, 10.6.2020
Online: https://www.meinbezirk.at/linz/c-leute/the-trick-is-to-keep-breathing-von-sivia-sun_a4091400
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PRESS-ARTICLE: Sparkling visual worlds crash out of dense undergrowth
The
exhibition of Upper Austrian artist Silvia Sun at Thiele Gallery in Linz
is well worth seeing.
A bird has picked up a homunculus. Just like the doomed earthworm he is
dithering in it’s pecker. „Is not controllable“, one can
read in the avian’s speech bubble. “By humans”, complements
a belling deer.
And a spectator who precisely surveys the avian tableau „The Great
Escape“, one of artist Silvia Sun’s paintings that are currently
shown at the Thiele Gallery in Linz, is able to discover a further curiosity.
Characters defining “Not sold yet” and an arrow refer to a glaring
red dot which is placed in the
painting’s right bottom corner, as a simple formal element with regards
to content.
Apropos:
it is no wonder that those typical red points of sale are accumulating
even before the actual vernissage. In Silvia Sun’s visual world powerful
colors and drawings, satire, ecologically competent ambiguity, poetry,
pop-quotations and tough as nails statements are unified to a convincing
ensemble.
Expressionism meets concreteness, exuberant visual narration encounters
atmosphere. Every leaf and each branch condense to “undergrowth”,
to brakes and brushes, which is most notably seasoned with botanical impressions
from Costa Rica. In response to the OÖN-question what she regards
as most important in her work, the artist, also a graduated Historian,
replies: “To transport the tension between
nature and civilization”.
From the mighty „Traumstein“ with its primeval saurian and swan in oil and edding on canvas, to all over printed miniatures with containter facades: Silvia Sun’s work blasts an abundance of association in our minds that heartily light even the longest fuse.
Exhibition Silvia Sun: Galerie Thiele, "Undergrowth", bis 20. Mai 2013 galerie-thiele.at
Translation: silvia sun