LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz
Information Sheet
HUTZINGER / JOOS
In Order
DVR-Nummer 0002852
19 June to 17 August 2014
LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz, A-4021 Linz, Ernst-Koref-Promenade 1
Tel: +43 (0)732.7070-3600 Fax: +43 (0)732.7070-3604 www.lentos.at
Contents
Exhibition Facts …………………….……………………………………………………..
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Exhibition Text ……………………...…………………….…………………………….…
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Exhibits ……..………………………………………………………………………………. 5
Exhibition Booklet Texts …………………………….…………………………………....
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Press Images ……………………………………………………………………………….. 13
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Exhibition Facts
Exhibition Title
HUTZINGER / JOOS. In Order
Exhibition Period
19 June to 17 August 2014
Opening
Wednesday, 18 June 2014, 7 pm
Press Conference
Wednesday, 18 June 2014, 10 am
Exhibition Venue
LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz, Basement
Curator
Dr. Brigitte Reutner
Exhibits
20 paintings, 28 graphic works and an object
Kontakt
Ernst-Koref-Promenade 1, 4020 Linz, Tel. +43(0)732/7070-3600;
info@lentos.at, www.lentos.at
Öffnungszeiten
Di–So 10–18 Uhr, Do 10–21 Uhr, Mo geschlossen
Am 15. August 2014 ist das LENTOS geschlossen.
Eintritt
€ 8,-, ermäßigt € 6 / € 4,50
Pressekontakt
Nina Kirsch, Tel. +43(0)732/7070-3603, nina.kirsch@lentos.at
Contact
Ernst-Koref-Promenade 1, 4020 Linz, Tel. +43(0)732/7070-3600;
info@lentos.at, www.lentos.at
Opening Hours
Tue–Sun 10am to 6pm, Thur 10am to 9pm, Mon closed
The LENTOS is closed on 18 April 2014.
Admission
€ 8, concessions € 6,50
Press Contact
Nina Kirsch, Tel. +43(0)732/7070-3603, nina.kirsch@lentos.at
Available at the press conference:
Bernhard Baier, Deputy Mayor and Head of Municipal Department of Culture
Stella Rollig, Director LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz
Brigitte Reutner, Curator
Christian Hutzinger, Artist
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Exhibition Text
Large-scale paintings by Hildegard Joos (1909–2005) are frequently dominated in their
structure by square, circular, triangular and/or elliptical shapes. Born in Lower Austria,
Joos was especially influenced by the experiences she gained in the art scene of Paris,
where she lived from 1959 together with her husband, the Swiss born philosopher and
painter Harold Joos (1913–2004). From 1982 the artist couple signed their works jointly
H+H Joos.
One of the hallmark strategies in the oeuvre of Christian Hutzinger (b. 1966) is the
transfer of motifs reminiscent of molecular or architectural elements or of everyday
objects into an entirely new context by means of collage and montage. By including in his
perspective the space of the observer, the Viennese artist conceptually transcends the
panel painting.
Based on donations to the LENTOS by Dieter and Gertraud Bogner and by Christian
Hutzinger, the exhibition aims at the juxtaposition of two intriguing artistic positions.
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Exhibits
Christian Hutzinger
Born 1966 in Vienna
Lives in Vienna
Untitled (CH 09/2010), 2010
Acrylic on canvas, 190 x 160 cm,
Loan of the artist
Untitled (CH 14/2007), 2007
Acrylic on canvas,190 x 130 cm,
Inv. Nr.: 1640, Donation of the artist
Untitled (CH 10/2010), 2010
Acrylic on canvas, 190 x 160 cm,
Loan of the artist
Untitled (CH 15/2007), 2007
Acrylic on canvas,190 x 130 cm
Inv. Nr.: 1641, Donation of the artist
Untitled (CH 17/2007), 2007
Acrylic on canvas, 230 x 190 cm,
Loan of the artist
Untitled (CH 07/2014), 2014
wall colour
Untitled (CH 18/2008), 2008
Acrylic on canvas, 190 x 130 cm,
Loan of the artist
Untitled (CH 01/2014), 2014
Acrylic on canvas, 70 x 70 cm,
Loan of the artist
Untitled (CH 02/2014), 2014
Acrylic on canvas, 70 x 70 cm,
Loan of the artist
Untitled (CH 03/2014), 2014
Acrylic on canvas, 70 x 70 cm,
Loan of the artist
Untitled (CH 04/2014), 2014
Acrylic on canvas, 70 x 70 cm,
Loan of the artist
Untitled (CH 06/2012), 2012
Acrylic on canvas, 170 x 130 cm,
Loan of the artist
Untitled (CH 07/2012), 2012
Acrylic on canvas, 170 x 130 cm,
Loan of the artist
Untitled (CH 20/2008), 2008
Acrylic on canvas, 190 x 130 cm,
Loan of the artist
Untitled (CH 21/2008), 2008
Acrylic on canvas, 190 x 130 cm,
Loan of the artist
13 collages, out of the series with 30
parts „November“, 2009
Gouache, paper, photo, stamp on paper,
29,7 x 21 cm,
Loans of the artist
Christian Hutzinger &
Lotte Lyon
Born 1970 in Graz
Lives in Vienna
Untitled („Hatch“), 2011
Acrylic, plywood, metal, hinges,
88 x 88 x ca. 7 cm,
Loan of the artist
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H+H Joos
Hildegard Joos
born 1909 in Vienna
died 2005 in Vienna
Harold Joos
born 1913 in Geneva
died 2004 in Vienna
H+H Joos, Untitled, 1989
(WV. Nr. 126), Acrylic on canvas,
200 x 200 cm, Inv. No.: 887
H+H Joos, Narrative Geometrisms
No. 129, 1989
Acrylic on canvas, 198 x 198 cm,
Inv. No.: 1276
Hildegard Joos, Reduction No. 15,
1975
Acrylic on canvas, 150 x 150 cm,
Inv. No.: 1295,
Donation of the artist
Hildegard Joos, Multibalance
(Equivocal Evolution No. 1), 1975
Acrylic on canvas, 162 x 130 cm,
Inv. No.: 1296
H+H Joos, out of the series: Space
Narrative 152, 1990
Acrylic on canvas, 197 x 197 cm,
Inv. No.: 1304,
Donation of the artist
H+H Joos, Space Narrative 168, 1992
Acrylic on canvas, 200 x 200 cm,
Inv. No.: 1335,
Donation of the artist
Hildegard Joos, Untitled
Felt pen and ink on paper (sketch), 21 x
29,6 cm,
Inv. No.: G 8633,
Donation Dieter and Gertraud Bogner
Hildegard Joos, Untitled, (1970er
Jahre)
Graphite on transparent paper,
49,7 x 65,2 cm, Inv. No.: G 8634,
Donation Dieter and Gertraud Bogner
Hildegard Joos, Untitled (Religious
Vision), ca. 1954
Gouache on paper, 60,7 x 41,7 cm,
Inv. No.: G 8639,
Donation Dieter and Gertraud Bogner
Hildegard Joos, Untitled (Religious
Vision), ca. 1954
Coal and ink on paper,
64,8 x 50 cm, Inv. No.: G 8640,
Donation Dieter and Gertraud Bogner
Hildegard Joos, Coloured Grid
pattern image, (1996)
Graphite and gouache on paper, 39 x 32
cm, Inv. No.: G 8641,
Donation Dieter and Gertraud Bogner
Hildegard Joos, Untitled, 1967
Pen, water colour on paper,
48 x 65,7 cm, Inv. No.: G 8643,
Donation Dieter and Gertraud Bogner
Hildegard Joos, Geometric series,
1969
Graphite, water colour on paper,
71,8 x 60 cm, Inv. No. G 8644,
Donation Dieter and Gertraud Bogner
Hildegard Joos, Balance, 1971
Serigraph on paper,
55,6 x 42,1 cm (39,3 x 30 cm),
Ed.: 8/50, Inv. No.: G 8647,
Donation Dieter and Gertraud Bogner
H+H Joos, Narrative Geometrism, ca.
1992
Serigraph on paper,
50 x 48,6 cm (44,2 x 44 cm),
Inv. No.: G 8653,
Donation Dieter and Gertraud Bogner
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H+H Joos, Allover, 1995
Serigraph on paper,
50 x 66 cm, Ed.: 24/35,
Inv. No.: G 8656,
Donation Dieter and Gertraud Bogner
H+H Joos, Space Narrative, 1995
Serigraph on paper,
70,5 x 49,2 cm, Ed.: 33/35,
Inv. No.: G 8658,
Donation Dieter and Gertraud Bogner
H+H Joos, Space Narrative, 1994
Serigraph on paper,
70,5 x 50 cm, Ed.: 25/35,
Inv. No.: G 8660,
Donation Dieter and Gertraud Bogner
Hildegard Joos, Equivocal Evolution,
ca. 1977
Serigraph on paper,
52 x 67 cm (50 x 65 cm),
Ed.: 24/50, Inv. No.: G 8661,
Donation Dieter and Gertraud Bogner
Hildegard Joos, Equivocal Evolution,
ca. 1975
Serigraph on paper,
65 x 50 cm, Ed.: 21/50,
Inv. No.: G 8662,
Donation Dieter and Gertraud Bogner
Hildegard Joos, Equivocal Evolution,
(1979)
Serigraph on paper, 66,8 x 55 cm (63,6
x 52,3 cm),
Ed.: 10/100, Inv. No.: G 8663,
Donation Dieter and Gertraud Bogner
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Exibition Booklet Texts
Christian Hutzinger
BIOGRAPHY
Born 3 September 1966 in Vienna.
Grew up in Mödling, Old Greenwich and Ebensee.
1987–1991 University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Lives and works in Vienna.
The exhibition Hutzinger / Joos − In Order extends throughout the two exhibition spaces
on the lower level of the LENTOS. Christian Hutzinger’s part of the exhibition comprises
primarily paintings from the last eight years. They were mostly created in series and have
titles consisting of the artist’s initials and consecutive numbers.
Hutzinger’s image language moves in the interstice between concrete art and figuration.
Associations with the figurative may result, but they are not primarily intentioned. The
artistic starting point is the plane surface of the picture. The acrylic paint is applied evenly
and opaquely, so that surface forms result.
These are clearly distinct from the monochrome picture ground. Collages and silhouettes
are important inspirations in the genesis of the work. They serve not only as preliminary
studies or sketches for paintings, but also form work groups of their own within the
artist’s oeuvre.
Within the boundaries of the picture, it appears that the laws of gravity predominate.
Elements of the picture consequently evince a clear downward orientation and are bound
on the lower edge of the canvas.
NOVEMBER
The selection of thirteen pages from the 30-part series November, created in China, is
presented in a display case. The collages are dated and were created in a daily rhythm.
The depictions of food that occur in them can be regarded as fragments of memory from
real life or also as a humorous diary. Yet they are also part of a concept harmonized in
color and form.
FLAP
A floor object entitled flap was created in co-production with the artist Lotte Lyon (*1970
in Graz, lives in Vienna). It transposes Hutzinger’s image language from the plane
canvas to the three-dimensional object. The Klappe may be opened, allowing a
surprising moment of movement to flow into the viewing of it.
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Turquoise wall
A striking accent is provided by a turquoise wall in the room. It forms a strongly colored
counterpart to the other walls of the exhibition. At the same time, it enhances the
radiance of the works shown before it. These are the work Reduktion Nr. 15, created by
Hildegard Joos in 1975, Hutzinger’s four-part work series Ohne Titel (Untitled, CH
01/2014 – CH 04/2014), 2014, and the painting Ohne Titel (Untitled, CH 09/2010) from
2010. The small-format painting series Ohne Titel (Untitled, CH 01/2014 – CH 04/2014)
was especially created for the exhibition in LENTOS. In these four acrylic paintings
Hutzinger refers to Joos’ painting in the immediate vicinity. The artist transfers an
element from the Joos painting, a black wedge, to the first work in his four-part picture
sequence. A transformation takes place from one painting to the next, from Joos’ sharp
edges to his own image language, which often has rounded, colorful picture elements.
The turquoise of the middle wall extends into the second exhibition room with finger-like
appendages. Hutzinger’s image forms thus enter into a connection with the exhibition
space. They cross over into the terrain of the architecture of the exhibition space itself,
thus integrating it into a complex interplay of components of form and color. Whereas the
paintings reject per se any spatiality inherent to the picture, the floor object, mural,
collages and paintings together result in a changeful interweaving of carriers of
expression. Through the protruding mural, the dynamic spatial concept rich in
interrelations crosses over into the second exhibition space, which is
dominated by works by Hildegard and Harold Joos. The small motifs in the Joos
paintings of the series Narrative Geometrismen and Raumgeometrien (Raumnarrativ 152
and 168) seem to float. They rise leisurely as cyphers in the picture space, entering into
a mutual interchange and engendering a universe of their own, which allows many
associations.
Hutzinger’s picture figurations, on the other hand, appear to be subject to gravity and are
arranged in the picture surfaces. They conquer the space as part of a concept that
comprises the entire exhibition area. In this way they appropriate the real surroundings of
the viewers, who suddenly find themselves in the midst of them. Like looking into a
mirror, the installation of a Hutzinger work in the Joos space takes the viewer back to the
space of the Viennese artist.
UPPER FLOOR
A two-part work by Christian Hutzinger is also integrated in the Collection Exhibition on
the upper floor of the museum. Hutzinger positions his art through these interventions in
the exhibition spaces on every level of the museum: like the puppet strings of
marionettes, they come together in his own exhibition.
The book Christian Hutzinger: Was bisher geschah is available in the LENTOS Shop.
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Hildegard und Harold Joos
BIOGRAPHIES
Hildegard Joos was born as the daughter of the leathercrafter Robert Gabriel and his
wife Maria in 1909 in Vienna. Following her education at the “Bürgerund Handelsschule”
(middle and vocational school) in the 1920s, she attended the Viennese Women’s
Academy at Stubenring. In 1937 she married the mathematician Friedrich Jeniczek.
From 1940 to 1949 Hildegard Jeniczek studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna
with Wilhelm Dachauer and Sergius Pauser. In addition, she attended Herbert Boeckl’s
nude painting evening classes. Her fellow students were Maria Lassnig, Kiki Kogelnik
and Christa Hauer.
Harald Schenker alias Harold Joos was born in 1913 in Geneva. He was a philosopher
and art critic. In the course of working together with Hildegard Joos he took on the artist’s
name Harold Joos. He was a co-founder of the group Exakte Tendenzen. Hildegard and
Harold Joos shared an ongoing artistic collaboration and were life partners for several
decades. Harold Joos died in 2004 in Vienna.
EARLY WORKS
Works from the first half of the 1950s show landscapes or religious themes that the artist
executed in a late expressionist manner. Hildegard Jeniczek processed inspirations from
the French expressionist Georges Rouault. She gradually took over his thick, black-lined
contouring for her motifs. In 1955 the artist became a member of the Vienna Secession
through recommendations from Maria Szeni and Hans Staudacher. From that point on
she signed her works with the artist’s name Hildegard Joos.
PARIS YEARS
Beginning in 1959 Joos worked for several months each year in a studio in Paris in the
Rue St. Yves in the 14th arrondisement. After exploring Paul Klee’s Pedagogical
Sketchbook (1925) and works by Richard Paul Lohse, Piet Mondrian and Max Bill, in the
early 1960s she turned to an art based on geometrical forms. Until 1965 works were
shown in exhibitions that were painted solely by Hildegard Joos. From 1965 to 1982
collaborative works with Harold Joos were exhibited under the name Hildegard Joos.
BALANCES
Balancen (Balances) are works from the 1970s in black and white. The term Binary
Codes is often used for these compositions in black and white. The works entitled
Balancen were created in Paris. The interplay of light and dark resulted in impressive
compositions, in which the artist plays with convex and concave forms. With the kinetic
effects depicted in her works, Hildegard Joos approached the criteria of Op-Art. Works
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from this series are often compared with works by Op-Art artists such as Bridget Riley or
Victor Vasarely.
EQUIVOCAL EVOLUTIONS
In 1972 Hildegard Joos was accepted into the Paris Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, an
association of artists of geometrical abstraction. A total of seven exhibitions of the artist
were shown here. The Salon was devoted to promoting all the tendencies of artistic
abstraction. The Äquivoke Evolutionen (Equivocal Evolutions) that were created starting
in the mid-1970s show honeycomb patterns and network structures, among others. They
take up inspirations from science, e.g. research on cell mutations. Morphogenetic
processes are depicted on the picture surface, displays showing gradually forms
changing. In 1975 Joos became a co-founder of the Viennese group of constructive
artists Exakte Tendenzen.
NARRATIVE GEOMETRISMS
The work series Narrative Geometrismen (Narrative Geometrisms) was created together
with Harold Joos beginning in the 1980s. The small geometrical forms in the large-format
paintings were developed by Harold and transferred to the canvas with pencil. Hildegard
executed this on the canvas. The Narrative Geometrismen are principally based on
mathematical ideas and deal with the fusion and disintegration of forms in conjunction
with forces of attraction and repulsion.
SIGNET H+H JOOS
Beginning in 1982 the signature H+H Joos is attached to joint works. The Joos signet is
a spiral with rays proceeding from its center at a 90 ° angle. “Concretely, that means:
taking in and then giving out.” (Dieter Bogner, art historian, art collector and Joos expert)
SPATIAL GEOMETRIES
From 1992 on, Hildegard and Harold Joos worked on the series Raumgeometrien
(Spatial Geometries). In the top left corner there are small elements that arrange the rest
of the picture surface as a monochrome color field. The interplay of the surface of the
painting ground and geometrical bodies is tested in the works of this series.
GRID PICTURES
In the grid pictures created after 1996, the strictly geometrical structure is loosened.
Painterly qualities enter into the foreground again. In her late work Hildegard Joos
returned to single creations again. Her works became increasingly painterly and the rigid
constructive corset was put aside. Throughout their lives, Hildegard and Harold Joos
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considered themselves as belonging to the French art tradition, for which the Salon des
Realités Nouvelles was the platform. Hildegard Joos died in 2005 in Vienna.
THE DONATIONS
The exhibition in LENTOS shows works that have been included in the holdings of the
LENTOS Kunstmuseum thanks to a generous donation from the Viennese collectors
Dieter and Gertraud Bogner. The donation comprises a total of thirty-two graphic works,
of which a representative selection can be seen in the exhibition. The exhibition includes
works from different phases of work by the artist.
The large-format paintings in the exhibition already became the property of the museum
between 1989 and 2000. Three of them were donated to the New Galerie of the City of
Linz at that time by Hildegard and Harold Joos. Christian Hutzinger donated two
paintings Untitled (CH 14/2007) and Untitled (CH 15/2007) to the museum. They are
shown in the Collection Exhibition of the LENTOS.
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Press Images
Press Images available for download at www.lentos.at.
1. Christian Hutzinger
Untitled (CH 10/2010), 2010
Courtesy Christian Hutzinger
© Bildrecht, Vienna 2014
4. Christian Hutzinger
Untitled (CH 18/2008), 2008
Courtesy Christian Hutzinger
© Bildrecht, Vienna 2014
7. H+H Joos
Space Narrative, 1995
Donation of the artist
© Bildrecht, Vienna 2014
2. Christian Hutzinger
Untitled (CH 06/2012), 2012
Courtesy Christian Hutzinger
© Bildrecht, Vienna 2014
5. Christian Hutzinger
Untitled (CH 39/2009), 2009
Courtesy Christian Hutzinger
© Bildrecht, Vienna 2014
8. Hildegard Joos
Reduction No. 15, 1975
Donation of the artist
© Bildrecht, Vienna 2014
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3. Christian Hutzinger
Untitled (CH 15/2007), 2007
Donation oft he artist
© Bildrecht, Vienna 2014
6. H+H Joos
Space Narrative 152, 1990
Donation of the artist
© Bildrecht, Vienna 2014
9 9. H+H Joos
Narrative Geometrisms No. 129, 1989
© Bildrecht, Vienna 2014
10. Hildegard Joos
Ohne Titel (Christ with Marta and Magdalena), 1960
Donation Dieter and Gertraud Bogner
© Bildrecht, Vienna 2014
11.-13. HUTZINGER / JOOS. In Ordnung
Exhibition view
Photo: maschekS.
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