– Arthouse Clemens Keiffenheim

"Blow up Schutting II – Faces of a poet"
Pressemitteilung für live Act am 16.5. in der Gallery Steiner, Kurrentgasse 4

Vernissage 08.05. and Live Act 16.05. – Impressions

Vernissage 13.03. – Impressions

2023

Arezzo TV: “La bellezza discreta dell’Atavismo”: al Circolo Artistico la mostra di ClemK

„BLOW UP SCHUTTING“

The vernissage and the accompanying homage to Julian Schutting was celebrated as an intense and very entertaining event. We would like to thank for the extremely positive advance notice and the coverage on radio and television. E.g. Ö1 Leporello, ORF ZIB 2, the daily newspaper "Die Presse".
Particularly praised was the very intensive, extremely powerful presentation of the portraits. Which is the usual book flap pictures of the writer Julian Schutting expressively put out of their pleasing pupa.

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Ausstellung 28.9.-21.10.2022

Hommage an, für und mit JULIAN SCHUTTING, zum 85. Geburtstag & H.C. Artmann Preis
Eine Ausstellung als Hommage mit Vernissage und Finissage als Trialog der Künste: Schutting liest, ClemK malt und inszeniert, Teodora Miteva (Cello) und Donka Angatscheva (Piano) musizieren. Ein live act - simultan improvisierend, gegenseitig einander inspirierend.

They have been neighbors since 2014 and have become warm friends:
renowned writer Julian Schutting and film/TV director and painter Clemens Keiffenheim (ClemK).

In September, Schutting will receive the H.C. Artmann Prize, in October he will turn 85 and his new book will be published.
Reasons enough to create a tribute for him.

Keiffenheim is fascinated by the personality and the many faces Schutting revealed in life and not least in his more than 60 books.
In 2019, he began to portray him. With the exhibition "Blow up Schutting" he presents the works to the public for the first time in a tribute to, on and with Julian Schutting.

With "Blow up" he refers to an enlargement technique used in film, which can be used to explain Keiffenheim's painting technique. However, the painter is also interested in enhancing the reputation of this exceptional writer, who has won several awards, and bringing him to the attention of a wider audience.

Keiffenheim studied the many faces of Schuttings during numerous, joint visits to the Heurigen. Depending on the situation in life, everything is represented, from mischievous smiles to grim looks or pensive melancholy - which can also be whimsically inferred from the titles of the individual portraits.

So what could be more natural than to hold the homage at the Hengl-Haselbrunner winery in rooms that have been specially redesigned for the occasion - right next door in the Grätzl, where Schutting writes, Keiffenheim paints, and both are at home under the same roof, door to door.

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