An­ge­la Gla­j­car: FLASH­BACK

Glajcar tears the large sheets of paper into shape and adds them together, like a stagger, to create expansive structures. The work process is direct, physically demanding and time-consuming. The high grammage of up to 400 g/m2 gives the paper, hanging and accumulated with the help of mechanical devices, a spatial-plastic presence and physicality. The artist experiments with the interplay between construction and deconstruction of expansive forms. Her creations move – always determined by the perspective – between the spheres of the abstract and the representational, without ultimately being fixed.

Glajcar opens the material through the crack edges. The fiber layering and direction inside becomes visible and the composition is understandable. The addition of binders or fillers in the industrial manufacturing process does not undermine the plant-based nature of the fibers, which creates the organic appearance of the paper and gives the works a form of naturalness. This is also underlined by the title of the series of works Glajcar has been working on since 2006: “Terforation” is a word created by the artist, which is made up of the Latin words “terra”, meaning earth, and “foramen”, meaning hole or opening. Two works from this formally diverse series are being shown together for the first time at the Kunstraum Dornbirn.

A catalog will be published for the exhibition by Verlag für moderne Kunst, Vienna, with a series of images from the exhibition as well as accompanying texts and an individual design by Proxi Design.

biography
Angela Glajcar (*1970, Mainz, Germany) studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg from 1991 to 1998. From 1998 to 2004 she held teaching positions there as well as at the Mainz University of Applied Sciences and the Universities of Giessen and Dortmund, and in 2007 and 2008 she held a visiting professorship at the University of Giessen. Glajcar's works have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions worldwide, such as the Landesgalerie Niederösterreich in Krems (currently until March 24, 2024), in the Jeonbuk Museum of Art South Korea and the Haus des Papiers, Berlin (both 2021) , the NMWA National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington (2020), at the Sharjah Art Museum (2019), Les3Cha center d'art Châteaugiron (2018), the CODA Museum Apeldoorn (2017) and a permanent installation at the Museum Wiesbaden (since 2017).