Eros - Thanatos │ Treffer Othmar - Zingerle Andreas

 

Eros, Greek god of desiring love, and Thanatos, Greek personification of death, meet in a collective exhibition with the local artists Othmar Treffer and Zingerle Andreas at the City Museum Bruneck/Brunico:
Eros a sensual and the life enjoying passion and Thanatos, death, the life destroying annihilation. Two opposite themes, sculpture and drawing, two artists: Othmar Treffer and Andreas Zingerle. Both of them operate meticulously, Othmar Treffer at the border to abstraction, Andreas Zingerle at the limit of mimesis. Treffer, after a first rough cut, reaches slowly the form which satisfies him. He highly polishes the figures until they get a high presence with a sharp graphic.
Zingerle edits photographs of assassins excerpted from the Internet digitally, cuts out templates and creates images on the brink of disappearance by overspraying and repainting them several times. The outlines are diffuse, the contrasts are weak.
Although the different dimensions, Treffer brings Eros to rest in polished stone, whereas the calm in Zingerle’s pictures despite the same sizes is only superficial because of the not exactly recognizable assassins. No wink as in Treffer’s erotic adumbrations, but only shapelessness, glistening brightness and seriousness. The victims, Zingerle had painted before these series, were clearly identifiable. In the exhibition the eroticism and the destruction do not get together, neither in materials nor form, or grammar of presentation, even if eroticism always holds destruction and otherwise death is resident in erotic.