1. South Tyrol
  2. Val Gardena / Grödner Valley
  3. St. Ulrich in Gröden / Ortisei
  4. The magic of the night
Exhibitions

The magic of the night

Organizer: Vijion Art Gallery
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About the event

Artists: Julia Bornefeld, Leonora Prugger, Cornelia Lochmann, Alexander Staffler and Ingrid Klauser

Good night, we say to ourselves, but what is behind this greeting, do we wish for a deep sleep, rest, retreat and relaxation from everyday life? But the night has more to offer, it is where our unconscious unfolds and leads us into an unknown, magical world.

The world of the night is full of mystery, so exciting and thrilling that artists have always been interested in it. The ambivalence between fear and desire that the night embodies offers endless possibilities for artistic interpretation. Artists from all eras have tried to capture and express its magic. Painters have brought light into the darkness.

The night can be anything from boring to exciting, because it enchants our feelings and thoughts. Sometimes the thoughts are real, sometimes they wander off into a cosmic and fantastic infinity. In the rhythm of the brightness of the day and the darkness of the night, people go through their experiences, which intensify or ignite in the night hours. Dreams also offer us paradisiacal and hellish scenarios.

But since the night cannot be seen solely as a time for sleeping, it is the vibrant, nocturnal aspects that are the subject of art. Night can become day for some, it is unpredictable and seductive. In general, people feel more relaxed in the evening hours, which encourages emotional and physical letting go. Artists continue to pick up on this broad spectrum that night represents and draw on the resulting psychological states. From the loneliness of the individual to the excesses of the night, many themes are addressed. The night makes one man small, another a lion.

The group exhibition 'The Magic of the Night' aims to give a glimpse of this nocturnal adventure, which tells of turbulent nightlife and infinite silence.

Artists: Julia Bornefeld, Leonora Prugger, Cornelia Lochmann, Alexander Staffler and Ingrid Klauser

Leonora Prugger's figurative paintings turn out to be patchwork images and use fragments of representations to show the pulsating nightlife and its dark sides, where identity is explored and lived out without inhibition. 

In her work, Julia Bornefeld draws a line between inner perception and cosmic feeling. Her mysterious images are a search for the beginning and the infinity of being.

Cornelia Lochmann's imagery seems to tell stories. With her fantastic, sometimes surreally charged paintings, she traces the unconscious and transcendent and invites us to explore the secret areas of ourselves. 

Leonora Klausner's art is characterized by the mysterious, ambiguous and enigmatic, from which the labyrinthically tangled emerges. Just as the dream stands in contrast to an enlightened, managed world, Klausner shows ways of interwoven thoughts of the unconscious.

Alexander Staffler shows us his distorted, imaginary abstractions that capture the grotesque, impure and abysmal nature of the night. His black and white images are charged with great dynamism and tension.



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Artist: Artisti: Julia Bornefeld, Leonora Prugger, Cornelia Lochmann, Alexander Staffler und Ingrid Klauser
Curator: Kostner Valentine
Introduction: Kostner Valentine

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Introduction - Vernissage: Kostner Valentine
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Startdatum: 22.11.2024
Uhrzeit: 20:30
Welcome - Opening day: Kostner Valentine