\u201cThe events of the year 2021, which was defined by lockdowns, the pandemic, and restrictions, has brought out the resonance in my pictures of Gustave Courbet\u2019s realism,\u201d Alexander Ruthner (b. Vienna, 1982; lives and works in Vienna) says about his most recent works: oil paintings featuring lush green vegetation and veritable down comforters painted all-over in saturated color gradients. The works will make their public d\u00e9but as the publication is released in the summer of 2021, hence the word \u201cSommer\u201d in the title. The other word, \u201cCour,\u201d is a nod to the first syllable of the French painter\u2019s name as well as French for \u201ccourt,\u201d a term the artist creatively reinterprets as a synonym for the solitary \u201ccastle of the mind\u201d to which we have retreated under pandemic conditions. Ruthner, who studied with Peter Kogler, Daniel Richter, and Albert Oehlen, revisits the boscage and pasture painting of past eras in new works that propose a distinctive personal interpretation of that tradition\u2019s charm.<\/p>\n
Alexander Ruthner\u2019s work has been shown at Kunsthalle Wien, the Whitechapel Gallery, London, and the National Museum of Montenegro, among other venues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Contemplating Nature in a Reduced-Mobility Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe events of the year 2021, which was defined by lockdowns, the pandemic, and restrictions, has brought out the resonance in my pictures of Gustave Courbet\u2019s realism,\u201d Alexander Ruthner (b. Vienna, 1982; lives and works in Vienna) says about his most recent works: oil paintings featuring lush green vegetation and veritable down comforters painted all-over in saturated color gradients. The works will make their public d\u00e9but as the publication is released in the summer of 2021, hence the word \u201cSommer\u201d in the title. The other word, \u201cCour,\u201d is a nod to the first syllable of the French painter\u2019s name as well as French for \u201ccourt,\u201d a term the artist creatively reinterprets as a synonym for the solitary \u201ccastle of the mind\u201d to which we have retreated under pandemic conditions. Ruthner, who studied with Peter Kogler, Daniel Richter, and Albert Oehlen, revisits the boscage and pasture painting of past eras in new works that propose a distinctive personal interpretation of that tradition\u2019s charm.<\/p>\n Alexander Ruthner\u2019s work has been shown at Kunsthalle Wien, the Whitechapel Gallery, London, and the National Museum of Montenegro, among other venues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14955,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[2208,2213],"product_tag":[5554,5555],"class_list":{"0":"post-14962","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-all-books","7":"product_cat-painting","8":"product_tag-alexander-ruthner","9":"product_tag-cour-sommer","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"taxable","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n