art-burningpictures

Inspired from the immense bush fires of Australia are burning-pictures the results of a unique painting technique. The strength of the fire is caught, it is concentrated and artistically released for an archaic result: Invisible becomes Visible

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Thomas Girbl Zyklus burning-discovery

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Art & Fire - burning artefact New York one by Thomas Girbl burningpictures

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Thomas Girbl burningpictures art

blackwillow orange 50cm x 70cm mixed media fire and color on canvas 

The cycle burning-microscope connects deepening to burning-cosmos-iced where I have already grappled with the heart of the life. Through the artistic execution of microscopic cuts of different life forms – including many trees – I get to the bottom of the unseen.

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Thomas Girbl burningpicture

art algae bloom  38cm x 44,5cm - mixed media fire and color on canvas 

CYCLE BURNING-MICROSCOPE

The cycle burning-microscope connects deepening to burning-cosmos-iced where I have already grappled with the heart of the life. Through the artistic execution of microscopic cuts of different life forms – including many trees – I get to the bottom of the unseen.

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The studio of Thomas Girbl in St. Jacob expands over a hidden situated cabinetmaker’s workshop, on a peaceful place, between the fizzy “mill-brook” and a fruit-tree meadow plucked by sheep with a view in the Süd-Karawanken (mountains). His works pile up there in a small chamber and await their discovery, while in the big workspace the raw canvas waits for different processes. On gigantic tables it is mounted cleanly, painted on the scaffold and before fire-resistant background on a wide wall they are exposed to the fire, are undergone a branding, to get their “brand”.

DR. HILTRUD OMAN / ART HISTORIAN IN SALZBURG

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PRESENTATION OF THE CATALOGUE IN THE HOUSE OF CULTURE IN ST. JACOB with texts by Hiltrud Oman Groupe-Exhibition Project with: Drago Druskovic, Thomas Girbl, Gustav Janus, Beppo Pliem, Franz Rasinger, Snezana Rehak, Hugo Wulz, Rainer Wulz, Roswitha Wulz, Jakob Wüster Opening: Friday, May 11th 2007 (via Thomas Girbl burning-pictures-art-gallery-collections » On the way to the Artists from St. Jacob in the Valley of Roses)

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EXHIBITION IN THE GALLERY OF FINKENSTEIN CASTLE Established by artistic director Michael Weger. (via Thomas Girbl burning-pictures-art-gallery-collections » Gallery of Finkenstein Castle)

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TRANSMUTATION The vineyard as a bearer of the transmutation, that place where external and internal change takes place – water to wine. Stone terraces, the steps of the mountain, point the way as well as they guard this process. They themselves – now also part of the transmutation – become abstract linear forms, open the vineyard and thereby give an insight. For the viewer a thrilling exploratory expedition starts, an alchemy of Earth-Fire-Air-Light and Water, a world full of colours with hidden messages, returning figures, secret writings, beings and profiles. The vineyard – burned on paper – is the clearly visible valve and ultimative tool of this transmutation. (Klaus Pichler) (via Thomas Girbl burning-pictures-art-gallery-collections » burning-vinestock)

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TRANSMUTATION – BURNINGVINESTOCK Opening at Rudi Pichler’s Winery within the Winespring in the Wachau The vineyard as a bearer of the transmutation, that place where external and internal change takes place – water to wine. Stone terraces, the steps of the mountain, point the way as well as they guard this process. They themselves – now also part of the transmutation – become abstract linear forms, open the vineyard and thereby give an insight. For the viewer a thrilling exploratory expedition starts, an alchemy of Earth-Fire-Air-Light and Water, a world full of colours with hidden messages, returning figures, secret writings, beings and profiles. The vineyard – burned on paper – is the clearly visible valve and ultimative tool of this transmutation. (Klaus Pichler) (via Thomas Girbl burning-pictures-art-gallery-collections » Winery Rudi Pichler Wachau)

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OPENING TO THE EXHIBITION BURNINGPICTURES Euromed Clinic Fürth, November 30th 2003 In Girbl’s pictures nature is not only illustrated, but rather caught and impressed on the material, branded. The creative strength of the fire is always visible in burned tints. Nevertheless, in the centre there is the warm, yellow light of the flames themselves. Everything looks enlightened, it gleams. Even from the depth light still issues forth, makes the composition clear and lights it up as it come from the back. The colours of the elements join as well as horizontally and vertically drawn curves and lines. The latter look brushed, scraped, they turn and get through themselves, meet, cruise each other at central places, resolve and lose themselves, often beyond the image border. Sometimes they also return again, to move to the fire to warm themselves. (…) (“Art and Competence” by Dr.med. Michael N. Magin) (via Thomas Girbl burning-pictures-art-gallery-collections » Euromed Clinic Fürth near Nürnberg)

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OUT OF THE CATALOGUE “POWER OF THE INNER EYE ” 2002 The traces left by the baptism of fire are considered as the underlying principle of “To die an to be” an have thus become the central element of remembering and the return of the very essentials of life. The sources of light or columns of light that are depicted at the very centre of the picture, as well as the areas surrounding them which are captured in hues of blue (=water), red and brown (=earth) and which too reflect the power of light once – again broken into different shades of colours – can be interpreted as the stories told about the stream of life itself. (via Thomas Girbl burning-pictures-art-gallery-collections » Power of the inner Eye)

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OPENING AND PRESENTATION OF THE CATALOGUE “POWER OF THE INNER EYE” Baptism of Fire – Traces of the Memory The fire as a creative medium in Thomas Girbl’s pictures Concentrated light as a corpuscle, a source of light – or wave in space – a column of fire, a horizon of light – and also as fields of interferences are arranged in such a way in Thomas Girbl’s pictures that the single depicted elements refer to each others and are made visible as shapes and colours. White ball-shaped areas, areas arranged as vertical or horizontal stripes or hatched areas symbolize the presence of highly concentrated light that stands for the power of fire. The light, broken by gentle matter as it meets material substances, is visualised by the beauty and brightness of the entire chromatic circle. The traces of fire stand for the traces of changes that are burnt into our memory and thus symbolize continuous change, the process of ongoing changes to which earth is permanently subject. (via Thomas Girbl burning-pictures-art-gallery-collections » Eventlocation Brewery Schleppe Klagenfurt)