REDUCED AND SEDUCED
Asma Kocjan
- Opening
- Monday, November 19, 2018
- Exhibition
- November 20, 2018 – January 13, 2019
Reduced forms & seduction – this is the motto the HOLLEREI Gallery dedicates itself to: presenting works by the Graz-based artist Asma Kocjan.
At the centre of the exhibition, the mostly anonymised (female) figure serves as a connecting element, brought to the foreground through drawing, acrylic painting and collage technique. Provocatively, black-and-white X-ray images reveal the female body down to its innermost structure. Through red accents and seductive accessories, the medical imaging procedure is imbued with an erotic meaning, thereby taken ad absurdum. In contrast stand Asma Kocjan's figure paintings, which in their reduced language of lines and forms as well as impasto paint layers tend to conceal rather than reveal. In this constant dialogue between visibility and opacity, both painting technique and pictorial statement dominate equally.
Text: Dr. Johanna Aufreiter (Wien 2018)
About the Artist
Born in Graz, the artist and photo model Asma Kocjan attended the master class at the Higher Federal Institute for Artistic Design in Linz and took numerous workshops at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. From 1995 to 1998, she intensified her work with acrylic painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. From 2006 to 2008, she studied at the Art Academy Bad Reichenhall; since 2007, she has been a member of the Salzburg Artists' Association. Today, Asma Kocjan lives and works in Vienna and Graz.
