09.12.2010–30.01.2011
Exhibition in the Cabinet

Birgit Pleschberger
rapunzel

Opening: December 8, 2010, 7 p.m.

The multi-part, large format piece, “rapunzel,” combines personal references with interpretive aspects of the traditional fairy tale. Like many of the artist’s other pieces, this work also displays ambivalent facets. While references to childhood, playfulness, ease, and being free are evident, “rapunzel” also allows the development of oppressive feelings of loneliness, melancholy, or being trapped.

This perception was reinforced through the visual and compositional realization as well as through elements from the Rapunzel fairy tale, upon which the drawing is based.

Birgit Pleschberger, born 1978 in Villach, lives and works in Salzburg