JOSEF WEIDNER

“As an art-interested teenager, I saw impressive examples of modern and classical art in museums in Munich, Düsseldorf, Amsterdam, Washington, and New York, which had a lasting impact on my artistic work.”

‘Where great forces mature and express

Josef-weidner.de themselves in their highest violence, there are the times of art.’ This sentence by the art writer Wilhelm Heinse is valid for the artist in three ways: it is the forces of the ‘inner artistic urge’ to practice art; it is the forces that have to be invested for this purpose and finally, the forces that are released in the creative process. This artistic maxim of the “Sturm and Drang” applies to his self-expression. He reveals against the absolute rule of reason and emphasizes the emotional world. www.kajalmondalartist.com

Josef Weidner’s paintings are characterized as surreal abstraction and, at the same time, abstract Surrealism, presenting the viewer with an uncommon variety of forms and structures placed on different painting surfaces. In doing so, the figurativeness of classical Surrealism is deliberately dispensed. The abstract compositional elements present in the artworks are characterized by formal references to organics and geometry. They lend the artworks a surreal quality of their own. They give the paintings an Independent surreal Impression.

For him, four essential prerequisites define a work of art.

“My paintings reveal my daily life journey experience and emotions. Those I paint and show on my canvas. I keep a composition, concept, and message to share with my viewers. I paint on my canvas two different elements that apparently have no relation but are deeply related, and I share this with viewers or art lovers.

I erect a composition that visually makes an impact on my canvas. My art is inspired by the message I receive from nature, society, and aesthetics or art. My subjects are elements that I find in my daily routine, animals and human organs. As part of my creative technique, I apply perspective, which creates depth on my canvas. I shortly narrate a massage which means a vast language to the visitors.”