07.02.–14.04.2013
1 Picture in Café

Maria Juen

Opening: February 6, 2013, 7 p.m.

The Salzburg based painter Maria Juen was invited to show her work as part of the exhibition series in CaféCult #58.

Maria Juen primarily deals with the tension between color, form, and surface in her work. She pulls the themes from everyday life; a majority of the works refers to the plant and animal kingdom.

For Maria Juen painting is closely connected to the visually perceivable world and its visual phenomena. Reduction transforms her motifs into simple, two-dimensional forms that become estranged through precisely established color combinations. Viscera, fish, and plant parts are unrecognizable at first glance. The conscious refraining from spatial illusion reduces the subjects to succinct shapes that combine with the surface of the image to form a whole. Impressions of space develop only through colors.

Maria Juen, born 1980 in Zams/Landeck, lives and works in Salzburg. From 2000-2007 Juen studied painting (Class: Dieter Kleinpeter) and textile design (Class: Roland Franz) at Mozarteum University. Some of her work was presented in the exhibition keine Angst, wir filzen dich nicht! in the Galerie 5020, Salzburg.