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Er sieht

1994, acrylic on canvas, 100 x 100 cm
The painting was the contribution to the exhibition “Werkschau”, Schaumbad – Freies Atelierhaus Graz, 13. 2. – 13. 3. 2020.

“Er sieht” (a wordplay between the terms he, she and to see) was originally one painting out of two shown in the exhibition “Frauen imaginieren Gott” (Women imagine God), Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz.

The motif on the painting: Easter-bunny, handcrafted by Karin Buol, made out of marzipan and chocolate, about 10 cm tall.
We feasted on it after taking pictures.

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Tonto: Kiss my Ass Goodbye

Diorama and Avatar, contribution to the exhibition Parallele Welten, Landesbibliothek Steiermark, Graz, 3. 10. 2019 – 28. 2. 2020.

“Kiss my Ass Goodbye”, refers to the book “Tonto #30 – Kiss my Ass”, including clippings taken from Tonto-books, a fabric by Karin Heide (spirals: Helmut Kaplan), drawings as stand-up displays by Michael Jordan and the sculpture of an atom bomb by Andreas Heller.

Concept: Michael Jordan, Helmut Kaplan, Edda Strobl
Realization: basically Edda Strobl

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Tonto #27 – Die wunderbare Welt der Pilze

Exhibition and publication.

Contribution to the exhibition “…und es zog mich durch die Bilder” Landesgalerie Linz, AT, in the context of the NextComic Festival, March 2019

Exhibition: Prints by Risograd, Graz (Hanna Stein)
Publication: Tonto #27, 2019; 16 pages, 2 x 2 colors. Printed by Druckerei Khil, Graz

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BOHREN UND DAS WAS BLEIBT

“Drilling and that what remains” (literally translated) was an exhibition with Tonto, Michael Jordan, the field research project “Enough is Enough” (led by Michael Jordan) and Edda Strobl (also as curator).

“Bohren und das was bleibt”, 8.9. – 7.10.2017, Schaumbad – Freies Atelierhaus Graz.
…soon more about the exhibition on the Tonto Website. In the meantime view some photos:

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REDUCE – ESCAPE – FORGET

Contribution to the exhibition “Ohne Start kein Ziel” (Without Start No Goal) at kunsthaus muerz, Mürzzuschlag, 2016, curated by Sabina Hörtner. The exhibition dealt with different aspects of travelling.

“Reduce – Escape – Forget” is an 8-page comic, on sheets of 70 x 100 cm, about crossing the border from Mexico to Guatemala in 1991. Civil war was going on in Guatemala, but the protagonists had other problems …

Within the exhibition I did the workshop “The box and a secret” with gifted young people from the region.
more about the exhibition (in german): kunsthaus muerz

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JOHNNY, CHERRIES, THE SNAKE

Episode #3, is part of an ongoing story collection about being on the road. Published as Kabinett-Heft #32, 2015, in collaboration with Helmut Kaplan.
The episode is some sort of a love story against the environmental background of rural labor.

Book presentation and exhibition (2 paintings and a small b/w print in red light related to the story) at the KabinettPASSAGE, MQ21, Vienna on a cold evening in October, 2015.

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DAS SCHÖNSTE BLUMENDORF

“The village with the most beautiful flowers”, an installation for the exhibition “Topping out ceremony” at “Schaumbad – freies Atelierhaus Graz”, 2014.
At a certain time while building studio rooms into the big hall at Schaumbad¹, the construction looked like a street in a village.
In rural areas of Austria, a competition – which village is most beautifully decorated with flowers – is fought in summertime. This custom was the triggering point …
The installation consisted of 8 à 80 cm long cases full of flowers arranged along the corridor, measuring the 40 m exit path to the new emergency door. The perspective decrease in size made the length of 40m imaginable.

¹ here you find a foto how the hall looked when it was empty.