Gerwald rockenschaub biography samples
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He lives in Vienna.
In the early 1980s Rockenschaub worked in a drawing style that resembled graffiti, the simplified images interspersed with fragments of words.
Gerwald rockenschaub biography samples
Between 1984 and 1987 he produced small, rectangular paintings in oil on canvas, in which simple, geometrical shapes, reminiscent of pictograms, were shown against glowing monochrome backgrounds. He then gave up painting entirely in order to concentrate on three-dimensional objects, producing coloured plexiglass panels, some with applique motifs, on broad enamelled boxes.
In the late 1980s Rockenschaub turned his attention to both the boundaries and the totality of the exhibition space in which he placed installations made of plexiglass and dividing walls. His work became more conceptual and increasingly focused on sit