Edgar Tezak: Strenge Freunde
Born 1949 in Graz, lives in Vienna: 2002/03, acrylic, oil/canvas, 75,9 x 59,9 cm, Inv. Nr. 1441, acquired 2003
Edgar Tezak studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Prof. Hausner. A longer stay led him to New York from 1979 to 1994. He has been represented at numerous exhibitions since 1970. From 1990 to 1991 he carried out a project in India together with André Heller (the eccentric private theater of the Marana of Udaipur), which was filmed by Werner Herzog. Since 1995 he teaches at the University of Applied Art in Vienna (Christian L. Attersee class).
Picking up from the dream world of the Surrealists, the artist describes a poetic ideal world. The major world themes of painting – creation, paradise, the harmony of man and nature – permanently occupy the artist. The sometimes melancholy oeuvre is marked by a symbolic glorification of the content depicted and a meditative style that may be traced back to an intensive study of the early Italian Renaissance (Giotto/Assisi).
