FLORIAN LEIBETSEDER
PAINTER
- From 1986 to 1988, apprenticeship at the University of Applied Arts under Mag. Erhard Stöbe, in Peter Weibel’s class, ‘Visual Media Design’
- In 1992, the novel Schlüsselloch was published by Residenzverlag
- From 1992 to 2004, studio in Prague 6, Czech Republic. 2000: The Commuter Project. A travelling exhibition. 7 stops, from the WUK in Vienna to Prague Main Station.
- Exhibitions and participations in Austria, the Czech Republic and Switzerland.
- A painterly exploration of a fetish: https://www.porninart.ch/exhibitions/eine-ausstellung-von-florian-leibetseder
- Works held in the collections of Dr Käppl, Dr Frosch, Dr Lehner, the City of Vienna and the Austrian government.
“There is no such thing as ‘figurative’ and ‘non-figurative’ art. Everything appears to us in the form of a ‘figure’. Even in metaphysics, ideas are expressed by means of symbolic ‘figures’. There you see how ridiculous it is to think one could paint without ‘figuration’. A person, an object, a circle – these are all ‘figures’; they all have a more or less intense effect on us.” (Picasso)
Landscapes or portraits can also be pictorial figures in this way. Perhaps I carry landscapes around with me inside my ‘head’, and some of what I observe in the outside world corresponds to an inner image of a landscape, so that I paint it. Similarly, I find figures ‘in my head’ that take shape as I draw, at first quite aimlessly, until a pictorial figure emerges. I often think of the surface being marked or painted as skin that can be cut into, thereby revealing further images.
