In Portrait
Wolfgang Sinwel
His painting moves between figure and landscape, between memory and observation.
* 1954 in Vienna.
In 1973, admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, master class of Rudolf Hausner. Graduated in 1977, simultaneously awarded the Cardinal König Prize. That same year, Sinwel decided on his future as a freelance artist. Rome scholarship in 1980, Theodor Körner Foundation Prize in 1981.
Since 1977, Sinwel has regularly participated in fairs and exhibitions across Central Europe. His artistic interest lies in the continuous development of a multi-layered painting practice that can be ambiguously described by the term "worldview," while at the same time occupying a distinctive individual position in the contemporary art scene.
On the Painting
There is a plane, chalky, matte, as if painted onto blotting paper, seeming half submerged … acting withdrawn into itself. Wolfgang Sinwel's landscapes approach the viewer with restraint. The painter places us in silent worlds, in panoramas that are self-sufficient. But it is also the poetry of the well-worn that touches us as we stand before these paintings, that takes us by the hand, whose pulse one can feel. The allure of wanting to draw closer, the mystery of an interplay between the comprehensible and the enigmatically ambiguous, the in-between — the objectively real can only be sensed. Is Wolfgang Sinwel not painting his own inner mirror? Why am I convinced, without any justification, that a climate prevails in these landscapes that corresponds to the human condition? How does the viewer know that what spreads before him across the medium-format canvas is the earth?Roland Geiger, Heidelberg
Works
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Works by Wolfgang Sinwel
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