Bertram Hasenauer, "All instant things are fading", 2006, Buntstift auf Papier, 29.7 x 42 cm

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Bertram Hasenauer
One day we'll meet

Bertram Hasenauer is considered a figurative painter. He is dedicated to the depiction of the human figure and employs an artistic language, which assures recollection and identification. Supposedly; since Bertram Hasenauer's pictures of the human being are anything but mere portraits.
In their surreal, unreal presence, they rather resemble a human-like appearance than mere images. "Figure, in order to depart from the figure", the art historian Margit Zuckriegl entitles her comment on this new work series. In her remarks, she outlines a design process in Hasenauer's creation, which leaves the directly empirical description of the figures and approaches the memory of a figure instead.

Bertram Hasenauer's human figures are both present and absent. They have retreated into themselves, concentrated on their most inward self, turned sideways, covered or cocooned as in a pupation - not without having always carried the One and the Other, the new and the old, male and female, puppet and the human being within themselves. The figures glide out of the here and now - as is alluded to by one of Bertram Hasenauer's picture titles: "You somehow slip away" or: "All instant things are fading". In this way, they assume this insecure sphere between the real and magical, between the sensory and the extra-sensory, between the disappearance of the physical and the efficacy of the spiritual. "One day we'll meet" is the title of the exhibition, and it leaves to the vagueness of assumption, which being will encounter whom.