04.10.2024 – 26.01.2025
Hubert Schmalix became internationally recognised in the 1980s as a representative of ‘New Painting’. After an extended stay in the Philippines, he found his style, which is characterized by expressive colours, strong contours and naive figuration. For Schmalix, the main source of his clearly defined and reduced formal language is the world of comics. Every figure, every landscape element and every object is roughly flat and has a strong contour. He often positions individual characters in a pictorial space that is defined only by a horizontal line and two background colours. The artist stylises them with oversized hands and feet, while emphasising their emotional states through expressive facial expressions and gestures. Hubert Schmalix reinforces a special kind of perception by creating landscape paintings in the form of a panorama especially for the Linz exhibition. Visitors can immerse themselves in his virtual world of landscape with the help of 3D glasses. In the exhibition at the Linzer Schlossmuseum, he presents current works that are being shown for the first time.
HUBERT SCHMALIX – Tremor
04.10.2024 – 26.01.2025
Schlossmuseum
Schlossberg 1, 4020 Linz
www.ooekultur.at
