Studio INsights # 25 November 2020
Under this category, I would like to introduce my free work INsights. An online magazine with current stuff from my work series as well as studies, photos, drawings from earlier days. I hope you like it!
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For the company South & Browse I made 5 pictures for the new conference room in Munich. It turned out really well. Many thanks to Britta and Tom.
Covert and discovered history
23 - portrait of a man,
93 - Twiggy,
105 - portrait of a lady,
145 - Idealized portrait of a lady - Kate W,
163 - The martyr of the solway
Photo print laminated on acrylic glass
Dimensions: each 100 x 75 cm
I did the commissioned work for the company "Carlo Gavazzi" in Switzerland.The initial image was the company's logo.
In the search for forms, I tried to connect the graphic, geometric structure of the logo with the style of the Suprematism. Then I contrasted clear lines and surfaces with free forms and fragments of collages, decollages, spray paintings and drawings in order to create tension. This idea was continued and condensed with macro shots of image fragments and abstract image points that result in a grid. A technical drawing by Leonardo da Vinci from the Codex Madrid is woven from an abstract drawing by Wassily Kandinsky. I added further graphic symbolism in the form of typography and characters that are appropriate for me to the subject of "Switzerland".
Thank you Mr. W. for allowing me to implement this picture for you!
I made this portrait for a family in Klosterneuburg - Austria.
I tried to overdraw the family portrait finely and overlay it with different layers. On the one hand, the same color tones were abstracted, but a photo-realistic representation was retained. Then I started mixing and building up the background for the picture. They are muted and pastel colors that convey a soft and velvety style. I then paint over these basic tones to create complexity and depth. After that I integrated 4 wishes (Elephant, Sydney Opera House, Golden Gate Bridge and Great Wall of China) into the picture according to their connotations. Different lines and different grid points, tags, collages, acrylic and water colors, pencil and felt pen drawings create a coherent whole.
Thank you for the opportunity to implement the picture for you!
Studio INsights # 24 September 2020
Under this category, I would like to introduce my free work INsights. An online magazine with current stuff from my work series as well as studies, photos, drawings from earlier days. I hope you like it!
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A commissioned artwork for an enthusiastic cyclist.
Material: photo paper mounted under acrylic glass, framed
Dimensions: 80 x 60 cm
The image structure:
First I retouched and painted over the original image (a photograph), abstracted and joined colored areas. Then I looked for shapes, lines and colors. I integrated these into the picture by using stencils, spray paintings, acrylic and water colors. Again and again I came across lines that symbolize the "way". At the top right are fragments of two wheel rims, at the bottom right a stencil of a cyclist. I have inserted fragments of numbers and the cyclist is highlighted with the color orange, symbolizing strength and activity.
Further fragments of tags, décollages and collages complete and condense the image structure.
Basically the composition is dynamic, wild, rich in contrast and colorful.
Studio INsights # 23 August 2020
Under this category, I would like to introduce my free work INsights. An online magazine with current stuff from my work series as well as studies, photos, drawings from earlier days. I hope you like it!
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This commissioned work is a picture for a widower of his deceased wife.
I felt honored to be able to create a memorial picture.
With bright colors I tried to create a kind of light image, something spiritual in a modern style with my technique from a transmitted photo. Warm, darker earth tones at the bottom of the picture contrast with light, pastel shades of color in the top of the picture. Furthermore I tried to build up structure and layers with coarse and fine brushstrokes and superimposed these with fragmentary spray paintings and scratches.
It is what it is.
A moment photographed to commemorate a bygone time.
Everything you can imagine is real.
The spirit lives!
Thank you Mister A.R.!
Some pictures from the vernissage on August 2nd in the gallery in the rectory in Wies. Thank you Cornelia Waltl, Anja Senekowitsch, Mag. Markus Lehr and all buyers, visitors and helpers! It was very beautiful! The exhibition runs until September 25th.
Photos © Christian Koschar
In this beautiful setting, a newly designed parish cafe, the interior designer Nora-Timmel-Ferch selected my picture "crucifixion of santa croce - cover and discovered history 05". Thank you!
Canvas print on stretcher frame. Size 120 x 80 cm.
Here you see a picture of my work “covert and discovered history 235 - Altausee” that a customer from Graz sent me. The artwork was printed on Hahnemühle fine art paper and the customer framed it himself.Size 120 x 80 cm.
Studio INsights # 22 June/July 2020
Under this category, I would like to introduce my free work INsights. An online magazine with current stuff from my work series as well as studies, photos, drawings from earlier days. I hope you like it!
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A commissioned work for Europark Salzburg.
It's a mixed media artwork on acrylic glass in the size 120 x 80 cm by the artist Günter Konrad commissioned by Europark Entwicklungs- und Betriebsges.m.b.H.
Konrad merges fragments of photographs, drawings, collages and spray paintings in his work. These analogue pictures are digitized and liquefied in the melting pot of bits and bytes. In the artistic revision, these codes result in a new whole, with the aim of connecting opposite worlds and thus creating something new. The Europark work plays with the contrast between clear, geometric, architectural lines and free, unrestrained, accentuated lines. Clear, radiant light (from the object) is surrounded by opaque light (the surroundings). Elegance and realness. Modern timelessness.
Konrad also integrated fragments of Jonathan Borofsky's sculpture "The Tree" into his work by picking up the helical form of the sculpture and reassembling it. Thus, the "Europark DNA" grows up from the "overdrawn" architecture and is thus firmly inscribed as a brand over the building and connects the form with the content.
Thanks to Andreas & the Team!
Here you see a picture of a customer from Stuttgart.
The artwork is a canvas print on a stretcher in the size 80 x 60 cm.
From June 8th to 13th I exhibited my pictures in Salzburg in the Europark. Thank you very much for visiting my booth.
Thanks to Andreas & the Europark-Team!
Studio INsights # 21 MAY 2020
Under this category, I would like to introduce my free work INsights. An online magazine with current stuff from my work series as well as studies, photos, drawings from earlier days. I hope you like it!
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This special edition is available in addition to the usual designs (e.g. on canvas, as aluminum Dibond Varinate) as a framed photo print (black real wood frame) laminated on glossy acrylic glass limited to 5 pieces in the size 61 x 41 cm.
Price € 300 without shipping.
If you are interested, please contact me, send me an email directly at info@guenterkonrad.com subject cadh 244 special edition or call me on 0043 650 9254989.
Have a nice day.
GK
Dear collectors, as events such as trade fairs or markets will not be possible in the next few weeks and months, I would like to give you my canvas prints on stretcher frames, which I have in stock in my studio in Salzburg, in this eBook.
This special “Market Edition” is my passion in terms of print quality and rendering of colors (UV-resistant latex ink) in combination with feel and structure. The result is a successful interplay of old and new. State-of-theart printing technology paired with an FSC-certified real wood frame made of spruce.
The prices listed include VAT. In order to calculate the shipping costs, please let me know your desired picture under Contact and give your delivery address, then I will contact you personally as always and let you know the price including shipping. For Austria, depending on the image size and weight, this is between 20 - 25 euro.
And, of course you can order all other pictures of my series covert and dicovered history as usual in different designs and sizes. You will find another compilation of eBooks on the subject of framed pictures. In the future, further eBooks are planned, such as limited aluminum dibond pictures (Collector’s Editon) and I will also present some original spray paintings, overpaintings and decollages in a separate eBook.
I will reopen my pop-up store in mid-April 2020 under the legal Covid regulations. You can visit me there at any time by prior appointment. I would be very happy about real contact and exchange. Until then, I hope you enjoy browsing through this eBook!
Questions or inquiries: go to contact
Open canvases
Dear collectors, as events such as trade fairs or markets will not be possible in the coming weeks and months, I would like to give you a rough overview of my framed pictures in this eBook, which I have in stock in my studio in Salzburg.
This “Market Edition” is my passion for upcycling and reusing old picture frames in combination with my art work. For some formats, however, I also take new, simple frames that emphasize the picture. The prices listed include VAT. In order to calculate the shipping costs, please let me know your desired picture and your delivery address under Contact, then I will contact you personally as always and let you know the price including shipping. Depending on the image size and weight, this is between 10 - 25 euro for Austria.
And, of course you can order all other pictures of my series covert and dicovered history as usual in different designs and sizes.
Another eBook compilation can be found with the topic canvas print on stretcher frame. In the future, further eBooks are planned, such as limited aluminum dibond pictures (Collector’s Editon) and I will also present some original spray paintings, overpaintings and decollages in a separate eBook.
I will reopen my pop-up store in mid-April 2020 under the legal Covid regulations. You can visit me there at any time by prior appointment. I would be very happy about real contact and exchange. Until then, I hope you enjoy browsing through this eBook!
Questions or inquiries: go to contact
Open framed ones
