Exhibition: “Colour and sound” – in the "Spazio Rizzi" at Latsch
REINHOLD TAPPEINER provides for “SOUND” with his works and DIETER OBERDÖRFER composes the “SOUND” or "sound dimension”.
The exhibition features large scale, semi abstract pictures produced in the last two years. Reinhold Tappeiner from Laas in South Tyrol/Italy sees himself as representing a style of large scale, semi abstract painting with symbolic references. His works are like a lesson on the remit of art and provide insight into how generally accepted statements can be expressed pictorially and how these messages can enrich our lives.
The exhibition shows reductions of forms, fates and colours in bold colours, which evoke many-faceted figurative and vegetative impressions. A characteristic of Tappeiner’s younger works is the way they are collected into groups and consequently communicate with each other.
The composer Dieter Oberdörfer, likewise from South Tyrol and living at Latsch will present a musical performance during the opening.
Presentation of the DVD “Seismograph”
Seismographs are technical instruments which react to the tiniest impulse. Similarly sensitive, here artists attempt to interact with each other through visual and acoustic art.
About the artists:
REINHOLD TAPPEINER
1959 born in Schlanders – resident at Laas
1974-1979 Gröden/Val Gardena art school
1979-1983 art college at Urbi
1983 diploma from the art academy under Prof. Elio Marchegiani
since 1983 freelance artist
1997 National Prize "Fabio Bertoni per l'incisione" (Accademia Belle Arti Urbino)
2001 contract professor at the Free University of Bolzano/Bozen
About the works:
Formally his works highly organised but open in their content. As open as it is possible for pictures to be. His pictures are like trees. This impression is generated immediately and very directly due to the extreme upright format of many of the exhibits. The narrow upright rectangle is the reduced impression of the rising, growing.
Reinhold Tappeiner’s are meditative inducements leading the beholder to a different perception to the everyday and require him to immerse himself into the pictures. Simply passing them by or a cursorily viewing the works will produce no reward. Only those who take the time to patiently and persistently peruse the pictures will perceive their intrinsic structures.
Colours are never provocative or gaudy. Yellow shines brightly but does not glare. Reinhold Tappeiner uses colours in a targeted and decisive manner and often keeps to black and white. Similar compositions often belong together; they vary a little in colour, perhaps in the red range, perhaps in the blue range. His works show processes rather than conditions. On closer perusal nothing is still, nothing is motionless in the proper meaning of the word. Much is reminiscent of traces, traces left by nature in growing and decaying and traces which we humans produce and with which we document our actions. Consequently Tappeiner’s recount much about stories which are connected with persons and natural phenomena, but even more about the nature of trees and humans and what connects them.”
By Klaus-Ove Kahrmann
DIETER OBERDÖRFER
Born in Meran, resident at Latsch.
Studied church music at the "Claudio Monteverdi", conservatory, Bolzano/Bozen.
Specialised in organ at the Vienna University of Music (organ and improvisation under Anton Heller and, after his death, Alfred Mitterhofer) graduating with a concert diploma.
Lecturer in organ in the Meran Church Music School.
Artistic director of the European Organ Academy, Goldrain Castle. Intensive work playing in concerts as a soloist and in various ensembles.
Five CD recordings with works by J.S. Bach, Antonio Vivaldi and penned his own compositions for Aquarius, Recon and Perpetuum Mobile. In addition to the organ he has occupied himself with old and new folk music and composition and has developed a personal style.
Compositions for organ, choir and various chamber music instrumentations. Numerous radio and television productions. Member of the organ committee for the Bozen-Brixen diocese.
"SPAZIO RIZZI" at Latsch
The “Glass Cube” at Latsch is noted for its award-winning architecture and accommodates the “Spazio Rizzi”, the venue for the exhibition “Colour and Sound”.