From 27 January 2024, the Mondrian House will give ample space to the work of Esther Stocker. Stocker (Italy, 1974) lives and works in Vienna. In her characteristic work in black and white, the artist examines patterns and the effect of disturbances on a rigid order. In doing so, she reflects on the apparent perfection and imperfection of systems.
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- From 27 January 2024, the Mondrian House will give ample space to the work of Esther Stocker. Stocker (Italy, 1974) lives and works in Vienna. In her characteristic work in black and white, the artist examines patterns and the effect of disturbances on a rigid order. In doing so, she reflects on the apparent perfection and imperfection of systems.
The Mondrian House will show a selection of Stocker's paintings, as well as some of her 'Creased Sculptures': paper objects with geometric patterns crumpled into round shapes. In one room at the Mondrian House, the artist is building a three-dimensional installation.
Esther Stocker expresses herself in lines, grids and right angles in the non-colours black and white. She belongs to a contemporary generation of artists working from the geometric constructivist tradition, but with her own perspective and philosophy. With her work, the artist explores relationships and structures and tries to relate to the contradictions that occur in life.
The disruptions Stocker creates in her tight grids raise questions about the relationship between order and chaos, reality and fiction, foreground and background, precision and elusiveness, certainty and ambiguity. In doing so, the artist invites the viewer to reflect on the systems and structures in society that consciously and unconsciously organise and direct us.
Stocker: 'In my paintings, installations and sculptures, I want to describe the ambiguity and uncertainty of a system. I use the precision of a system to question the system itself.'
In the video below, from her studio in Austria, Esther Stocker talks more about her methods, techniques and sources of inspiration.
Esther Stocker studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
She exhibits regularly in international museums and galleries such as: Fondazione Alberto Peruzzo (Italy), Museum Ritter (Germany), Art at Fuliang Festival 2023 (China), bARTh (Italy), Changwon Sculpture Biennale (South Korea), Museum Haus Konstruktiv (Switzerland), Museo Vasarely (Budapest), Museo Gegenstandsfreier Kunst (Otterndorf, Germany), LA BF15 (Lyon), Setouchi Triennale (Japan), Kunsthalle Bratislava, Italian Embassy in Vienna, MACRO (Rome), Museum Ritter (Waldenbuch, Germany), Georg Kolbe Museum (Berlin), Künstlerhaus Hannover, CCNOA - Centre for Contemporary Non-Objective Art (Brussels), Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (Vienna) and Sharjah Art Museum (United Arab Emirates).
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