01/02/13
Silvia Hatzl: A
Fragile Existence
Rosenfeld Porcini
18 January – 7 March
2013
For Silvia Hatzl (born 1966, Bavaria), “feelings” are
everything. “My works are born through a series of stages, most of them
sensual; touching, smelling, finding, joining, forming, impregnating,
pigmenting, painting, moulding, scratching, stretching, drying, heating,
burning and shaping.” And, as a result, their impact on the viewer is really
quite visceral. Walking into the dimly lit gallery on opening night, there is a
shroud of mystery hanging in the room, and, despite the flowing drink, the guests
remain respectfully low-voiced. They stand between spot lit families of
garments – transparent and flimsy, fragile and haunting, hanging on iron
stands, and randomly arranged, irrespective of height – and starkly contrasting
solid body parts – busts and heads, feet and masks.
