Ilse Haider - Icons

Franz Grabmayr's rigorous pictorial oeuvre is founded on an almost symbiotic connection of intense experience of nature, physical immediacy and radical material aesthetics. In his personal space of experience, the self-chosen seclusion of the Waldviertel and his Carinthian homeland, he meticulously studied the elemental forces of nature: the blazing fire of burning tree stumps, which he circled while painting on a tractor trailer transformed into a "mobile studio", or the moving masses of water of the Kamp, which he, balancing on smooth rocks in the middle of the river, virtuosically captured on canvas. Real sand pits and harvested grain fields with sheaves of grain Grabmayr focused on with the same artistic obsession and no less passion.