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Padhi Frieberger
16. October 2011 bis 15. April 2012
Padhi Frieberger (b. 1931) is indubitably one of the most radical pioneers of the post-war Austrian art scene. As musician, painter, collage-, object- and photo-artist, as socio-political activist and anarchic scene figure, he has created a genre-transcending oeuvre and is still expanding the borders of art today. Born in Krems, the artist was initially active in the circle of the ‘Vienna Group’. In the 1950s he produced poems, mail art collages, junk sculptures and photographic portraits anticipating 1980s staged photography.
Padhi Frieberger has no wish to create works for a niche in the art world. Rather his works are residues of an eventful life where art and life merge in a complex gesamtkunstwerk. Peter Weibel once rightly described him as a ‘living sculpture’. His thoughts and actions mark him out as Austria’s only real Fluxus activist to date. The exhibition at Forum Frohner offers a glimpse into the visionary dream-realistic oeuvre of the auratic universal artist Padhi Frieberger for whom fracture, resistance and irritation are life’s prime elixir.
Curators: Dieter Ronte, Hans-Peter Wipplinger
