Return to Vienna: The Paintings of Tess Jaray
For over sixty years, Tess Jaray has made formally austere paintings, dedicating herself to an analysis of the relationships between painting and architecture, between picture and beholder. Given that her oeuvre spans such a long time, a conventional retrospective would hardly have been uninteresting. Yet in Return to Vienna: The Paintings of Tess Jaray, the British artist with Austrian roots chose to present something different: a selection of twenty-five works, the majority dating from the past several years, that shed light on current concerns in her art such as her investigation of the art-historical tradition of the circular painting.
Vereinigung bildender KünstlerInnen Wiener Secession
Im Sinne ihres Mottos „Der Zeit ihre Kunst. Der Kunst ihre Freiheit“ präsentiert die Secession in international ausgerichteten Einzel- und Themenausstellungen relevante künstlerische Ausdrucksformen der Gegenwart. Die Vereinigung bildender KünstlerInnen Wiener Secession ist das weltweit älteste unabhängige, der zeitgenössischen Kunst gewidmete Ausstellungshaus, das stets von Künstlerinnen und Künstlern geführt wurde.
Tess Jaray
19 Feb 2021 - 18 Apr 2021