Xenia Hausner Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

Xenia Hausner is one of the most important Austrian painters of our time. This richly illustrated volume focuses on the aspect of staging that characterizes all her works. Beginning with her early pieces from the 1990s and culminating in the poignant Exiles series, the book transports readers into a feminine world filled with mysterious relationships. Hausner's painting is rooted in photography; the artist constructs spatial settings in her studio and captures a moment akin to a film still. Translated into painting, her images create a dramatic tension, suggesting that what is shown must lead to the next image to reveal its mysteries. Through the staged elements in her works—the painted captured lie—we encounter the contradictions of our existence and find an alternative to a male-dominated visual language.

Xenia Lucky Break Rainer Metzger and Katharina Sykora A new book on Xenia Hausner, the artist who is a leading figure in Vienna s hugely influential realist movement. Hausner s use of bold color and dramatic lighting the product of her career as a set designer offer as much insight into the emotional state of the artist as they reveal about the people she depicts. Lucky Break approaches Hauser s work through the context of her creative process. Designed by Hausner herself, the book s broad, horizontal format incorporates photographs, sketches, and notes assembled like collages to enhance brilliant reproductions of her pieces. Accompanying the illustrations are essays discussing the influence of Hausner s work in the theater and on her art, focusing on her search for motifs. Rainer Metzger is an art historian and teacher, who lectures on art history at the University of Stuttgart. Katharina Sykora is professor of nineteenth and twentieth-century art history in Brunswick, Germany, and has published widely on new media.

Compiled by the artist, this collection of the contemporary German painter's photographs, sketches and notes are assembled like collages alongside reproductions of her works.