ROKOKO
Tints comprises paintings from the years 2018 until 2021, that
fill up the exhibition space in a baroque manner. For his show in Vienna,
Florin Kompatscher designed two new installative interventions together with
the extension of the “red kitchen”. In his painting, the artist has
always been generating bizarrely aesthetic dream worlds that are impossible to
narrow down stylistically. The form appears to emerge from the subconscious and
to hark back to surrealism, while the atmospheric dissolving of colour is
reminiscent of impressionism. Especially in the new work series, the serene
playfulness of the composition comes across very dynamic and also cheerful in
the choice of colours.
Florin Kompatscher born in Bolzano, Italy, in 1960. Studied
with Carl Unger and Adolf Frohner at the Academy of Applies Arts in Vienna from
1981 to 1986. Since then, he has had numerous international exhibitions, which
left a lasting echo in the public mind not least for many a catchy title, such
as ROKOKO Tints (Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman Vienna,
2021), Comix & Atlantix (Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus
Thoman Innsbruck, 2020), Discrete Austrian Secrets (Galaxy Museum
of Contemporary Art Chongqing, 2019/2020), Genie out of the bottle (Haverkampf
Berlin, 2018), schleie farbe lief (Galerie Elisabeth &
Klaus Thoman Vienna, 2018), Fluss ohne Ufer (Künstlerhaus
Bethanien, 2018), Trip de Roche (Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus
Thoman, 2012), Der Himmel hatte Fieber (Kunstverein
Offenburg-Mittelbaden, 2012), Wake Up Before You Go Purple (Galerie
Andreas Binder, Munich, 2010), Die Scherbe des Himmels (Galerie
Strickner, Vienna, 2010), My Brain is on an Elevator (Galerie
Eva Bracke, Berlin, 2009), Der scharfe Rand der Erde (Galerie
Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman Innsbruck, 2008), Purple & Asphalt (Forum
Kunst, Rottweil, 2007), Alles Andere ist wahr (Tiroler
Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, 2006), Die Lange Heimat (Kunstverein
Heilbronn, 2006), or dumdidldauda (kjubh Kunstverein,
Cologne, 2002), to mention but a few. Following several stays abroad, in Rome,
Madrid, and Paris, each lasting for several years, Florin Kompatscher, together
with his wife Maria Brunner, has been living in Berlin since 2003.
