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contemporary artists in la Biennale di Venezia issue MOON OVER THE HILL, 2017 PENCIL ON PAPER 40X30 CM..
HIDDEN HOUSES, 2017 PENCIL ON PAPER 40X30 CM.

NOCTURNAL GARDEN, 2017 PENCIL ON PAPER 40X30 CM.
WINTER NIGHT, 2016 OIL CHALK ON PAPER 50X38 CM.

RENATE MERZINGER-PLEBAN
Lives and works in Vienna (Pressbaum), Austria
www.austria-forum.org

Lines and strokes by pencil or brush produce form, space, nature a synonym for indifference. Since ever nature makes me
motion. They give clear significance by strength and color and feel committed/abandoned because of it´s capriciousness and
equally by letting blank the paper. Every stimulation comes fascinated because of it´s beauty. Concerning the approach
from outside. As an answer to this drawings and paintings to humans there is a diversity of sensual and intellectual
create the world outside new. It´s a matter of arguing with the possibilities at my disposal. So I don´t „need “the medium of
world around me. I have to find my position and – possibly – get artistic creation. Therefore humans seldom are topic in my work.
echo. In my work I reduce nature to landscape. So it becomes Face to face with nature for me there only remains the possibility
concrete, (maybe harmless?) and a place of desire, where of representation of my highly personal sight of landscapes -
emotion and thought may find a place to stay a while. Landscape always without contradiction: nature doesn’t´t reply.
is everywhere, there doesn’t´t exist no landscape. You only I put myself against this indifference, make lines and strokes,
may fade it in favor to something subjectively important and drawing I leave traces, preferring dark ones on a light base
interesting. For me landscape is a synonym for nature and (paper), but also coloured ones.

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