Technisches Museum Wien

9 November - 31 May 2007

Paintings & Heavy Industry

Fire and iron as a means of addressing the transformation of nature in culture are fundamental themes in the work of the artist Maria Moser, as her large-format, brightly coloured abstract paintings and sculptures demonstrate. The Heavy Industry collection on show here on 2,500 square metres of exhibition surface looks at mining and the production and processing of metals in an economic and social environment. The lofty exhibition space itself is enclosed by a Jugendstil cupola and dominated by a 130 tonne LD crucible once used for manufacturing steel. As an experiment Maria Moser's works invite visitors to enter into an exceptional dialogue between art and a technical, cultural and historical exhibition.

The exhibition showcases some twenty paintings by the artist from Upper Austria, who grew up around a blacksmith's shop; most of the works have been created specifically for the exhibition. They are dotted about, positioned against objects and walls or simply set in the available space, creating an interdisciplinary digression with a retroactive effect.

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The Artist Maria Moser

Maria Moser (born 1948) studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. The internationally renowned freelance artist lives and works in Frankenburg in Upper Austria and in Vienna. Already in her earlier exhibitions she purposefully sought out locations linked to the metalworking industry as a setting for her works, in 1998 for instance the former factory building of a scythe forge in Scharnstein or in 2001 a production shop of MCE AG.

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Project Management: Hubert Weitensfelder
Concept: Maria Moser, Carl Aigner und Hubert Weitensfelder
Grafik Design: Ursula Emesz