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Elisabeth Hölzl, Gina Klaber Thusek. Lichtpausen, lückenhaft

Duration: 05.03 - 05.06.2022
Artists: Elisabeth Hölzl, Gina Klaber Thusek
Curator: Ursula Schnitzer

Lichtpausen, lückenhaft is an exhibition that presents two artists – Gina Klaber Thusek (1900-1983) and Elisabeth Hölzl (*1962) – in interlocking retrospectives.

The two met in Meran in the early 1970s: Thusek was at the time a mature artist who had been through two world wars, been confined to Meran and spent 16 years as a stateless person. Hölzl was a young girl, just at the beginning of her artistic career. Although the two artists belonged to different generations and were shaped by utterly different life circumstances, there exists a surprisingly large number of references between their works.

Their first encounter in 1973 has now – almost 50 years later – led to a new encounter: Gina Thusek’s estate held in the archives of Meran’s Palais Mamming, has become a moment of remembrance and an inspiration for Elisabeth Hölzl, whose multifaceted works, together with Thusek’s ouevre, reveal a new, expansive dimension in this exhibition. The show thus goes beyond that of a double exhibition to become, through the interweaving of the works of both artists, a new whole.

Lichtpausen, lückenhaft tells of the richly layered points of contact between the two: Thusek’s work, gradually brought into the light, has in recent months prompted Elisabeth Hölzl to see some of her own work anew, to sift through her early work and permit new works to enter into dialogue with those of Thusek. The individual sections of the exhibition accordingly trace themes and life situations that have played an important role in the work of both artists. Love, longing, desire; photography as a narrative method and an expression of introspection; new paths in sculpture or a strong affinity with textiles – these are just some of the facets shown.

Lichtpausen, lückenhaft Plakat zur Ausstellung Historisches Foto, Klaber Thusek in Jenesien über Wiesen laufend, 1940 Foto: Oskar Thusek Courtesy Archiv Palais Mamming Meran/ Archivio Palais Mamming Merano

Foto Installation

Foto Opening

Works

Gina Klaber Thusek Porträt mit Kunstwerken, Meran / Ritratto con opere d'arte, Meran/o, 1978 C-Print Courtesy Palais Mamming Museum
Elisabeth Hölzl Porträtfoto / ritratto fotografico foto Roland Bolego 2022
Elisabeth Hölzl more (links) 2022 Gina Thusek Akt en plain air / Nudo en plain air um 1940 circa Courtesy Elisabeth Hölzl und/e Palais Mamming Museum
Gina Klaber Thusek Porträt mit Kunstwerken, Meran / Ritratto con opere d'arte, Meran/o, 1978 C-Print Courtesy Palais Mamming Museum
Gina Klaber Thusek Kerzengarten Nr. 5 1973 Assemblage mit Kerzenstummeln und anderen Materialien / assemblage con moccoli di candele e altri materiali Historischer C-print / stampa fotografica storica Courtesy Palais Mamming Museum
Elisabeth Hölzl Desiderio 1994 Foto/fotografia Courtesy Elisabeth Hölzl
Elisabeth Hölzl Hotel Bristol 2005-2008 C-Print Courtesy Thomas Hölzl