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Wolfgang Schrom was born in Vienna, Austria. Since his early youth the artist’s drawings have been sharpening his sense for representational painting. At the age of 15 he was already studying painting and graphic art at the wiener kunst schule (Viennese School of Arts). During his years of study he specialized in the techniques of the old masters. The so-called tempera-oil paint mixing technique has a formative influence on his whole artistic work.
In 1987 the artist starts to present his works to the broad public in both group and single exhibitions. Study trips to Italy and Belgium follow. At the beginning of 1991 he focuses on painting on commission and graphic art in his artistic work. He is always strongly impressed by various new media which continually broadens his horizon to the unusual and innovative.
The year 1997 stands as the beginning of his experimental phase, which was supposed to last for 5 years. During this time he works together with Ernst Fuchs (Vienna School of Fantastic Realism) and designs a new formal vocabulary for his paintings. He decides he does not want to release this for the time being. In 2001 he gives a series of lectures at the master class of Muntean/Rosenblum at the Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien (Academy of Visual Arts in Vienna). Another important of his projects is linked to the famous alpinist Reinhold Messner. Schrom paints large-sized pictures of the Dolomites, which are then exhibited in the highest museum in Europe, the Museum Dolomites in Cibiana di Cadore, Italy. Patagonia is also an inspiration to the artist in regards to painting mountains. His works Cerro Torre I and Cerro Torre II as well as his installation “Flags of Prayer of Cerro Torre” are permanently exhibited at MMM Firmian (Messner Mountain Museum) at Sigmundskron, Bozen, since 2006.
Wolfgang Schrom leads an open dialogue with all kinds of art. Although rooted in the tradition of occidental painting he is radically open to breaking new ground within art. His experiments of light and object have revealed new ways within art to him. The artist reverts to the so-called “collective Unconscious” in his works, to the location of those instinctive patterns of thought and behavior that over the millennia of human experience have became what we call emotions and values. These archaic images cannot be called into consciousness, but can only be projected into the outside world in a symbolic form, as pictures. C. G. Jung named these symbols “archetypes”. Schrom uses the power of symbols to set positive examples and to use a language as an artist that can be understood by the whole world.
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About Wolfgang Schrom
Have we already seen the TOWER OF BABEL? No, because the interpretation of artist Wolfgang Schrom is only being presented to the public for the first time. The artist states: “I draw from the unconscious; I visualize and try to realize a form of beauty in my artistic work.” Image, technical experiments, digital sketch and transformation by hand mark Schrom’s newest paintings. The TOWER OF BABEL is the emblem for the moment, in which the confusion of tongues emerges on earth.
Schroms cycle TOWER OF BABEL depicts a possible future of harmony that finds itself in the variety of colors and forms. The stylistic significance touches one’s inspiration and marks the encounter with cubism, defined as synchronicity within the polychrome dimension of color within space, understood as frequencies of light.
The courage to entitle an artwork TOWER OF BABEL after 9/11 can only contain the message and hope to find a language of understanding within globalization.
Margit Strobl (art historian, Catalogue Vineart)
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The mountain is self-centered, doesn’t move, is always the same but then again ragingly unsettled for the human, who never sees the mountain in the same light. Mountains show themselves in their most different colors. Colors that constantly change. From the sunrise to the white light of midday and the dawning sunset light to the red of the setting sun.
Colors that Viennese painter Wolfgang Schrom captures in his painting “The 7 Colors of Cadini”. A carbon print, reflecting pop-art, homage to Reinhold Messner, whereby the original can be admired at Museum Dolomites in Cibiana di Cadore, the highest museum in Europe. Schroms mountain pictures are characterized by a precision to the tiniest detail while being hyper realistic in technique with an immediate vitality in the coloring..
Alexandra Aschbacher ( ff - Wochenmagazin )
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Exhibitions - Museum
MMM Firmian (Messner Mountain Museum) auf Sigmundskron Bozen, Italy
Vineart, Bozen, Italy
Salle d'exposition du quai Antoine 1er, Monaco
Centro Culturale Toblach, Italy
Museum Dolomites, Cibiana, Italy
Norbreck Castle, England
Monasterio de Nostra Senora de Loreto, Sevilla, Spain,
Burg Schlaining, Burgenland, Austria
Gallerie Laudongasse, Wien, Austria
Palais Palffy, Wien, Austria
Dom- and Dioezesanmuseum, Wien, Austria
Publications
Margit Strobl, Dolomia - Die Dolomiten in der bildenden Kunst,
Electa, Italy 2006
Messner Reinhold, Der verzauberte Berg
BLV Buchverlag, Munich, Germany 2006
Who's Who in Visual Art
Art Domain Whois Verlag, Leipzig, Germany 2008
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