Thom Trauner
Austria (Österreich)
www.thomastrauner.com
category: Painting
technique: Oilpainting
Style: Representational
Statement:
To look deeper, not to stop at the surface and the apparent clarity – that is one credo of Trauner’s work.
Reinhold Gruber (OÖ-Nachrichten)
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Tiefer zu blicken, nicht an der Oberfläche und der vermeintlichen Deutlichkeit hängen zu bleiben - das ist ein Credo von Trauners Arbeit.
Reinhold Gruber (OÖ-Nachrichten)
Bio / Resumee / Statement:
Given this diversity that Thom Trauner shows, it seems inadequate to deal with his biographical details along stereotypical lines. However, many a non-negotiable fact – such as born in 1964 in Wels, resident since 1999 in Scharnstein – cannot be avoided without reference of this kind.
Coming from a working class family, Thom Trauner chose an apprenticeship as a lithographer. The artistic creativity of his mother, whose works were almost all irreparably lost during the Second World War, inspired him from his youth. From an early stage, Thom Trauner was already trying to implement this artistic talent in his own way. Alongside his job, where he learnt the basic principles of classic photography and traditional printing, he used a diverse range of photographic printing processes, such as cyanotype, adapting these in his own unique fashion.
Although the main focus of his creative work is on the visual level, Thom Trauner has been firmly associated since the early 80s with the punk-rock band ‘Frontal’.
He nevertheless busied himself unwaveringly through self-study with the practice and theory of numerous painting and drawing techniques, going on to develop these over the years into an autonomous style. In 1995, however, his entire work experienced a major break as he destroyed numerous of his creations in order to demonstrate, externally as well as internally, a completely new beginning. From this time forward, he began to produce numerous, mainly large format oil paintings that foreshadowed his current style: in-depth themes, manipulation made clearly visible through programmatic blurring, where the concrete becomes effortlessly abstract without, however, losing the content in the process.
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Bei dieser Vielseitigkeit, die Thom Trauner an den Tag legt, scheint es ungenügend, die biografischen Details nach stereotypem Muster abzuhandeln. Ãœber manch unverhandelbare Gegebenheiten – geboren 1964 in Wels, seit 1999 in Scharnstein lebend – kommt man dennoch nicht ohne diesbezügliche Erwähnung hinweg.
Aus einer Handwerkerfamilie stammend, wählte Thom Trauner den Weg einer Lehre als Lithograf. Das künstlerische Schaffen seiner Mutter, deren Werke im Zweiten Weltkrieg fast zur Gänze unwiederbringlich verloren gingen, inspirierten ihn bereits von Jugend an. Schon früh versuchte Thom Trauner dieses Talent mittels eigener Wege in der Kunst umzusetzen: Neben seinem Beruf, in welchem er die bloßen Grundzüge von klassischer Fotografie und herkömmlicher Druckverfahren kennen lernte, wandte er diverse Edeldruckverfahren wie z. B. Cyanotypie an und gestaltete sie individuell.
Obschon das Hauptaugenmerk seines Schaffens auf bildnerischer Ebene liegt, ist Thom Trauner seit den frühen 80ern mit der Punkrock-Band „Frontal” fest verbunden.
Gleichwohl unbeirrbar beschäftigt er sich im Selbststudium intensiv mit Praxis und Theorie zahlreicher Mal- und Zeichentechniken, um diese über die Jahre zu einem eigenständigen Stil auszubauen. Dennoch erfährt das „Gesamtwerk” im Jahr 1995 eine massive Zäsur: Zahlreiche Werke wurden von ihm vernichtet, um auch äußerlich einen kompletten Neubeginn zu manifestieren. Ab diesem Zeitpunkt entstanden zahlreiche, mehrheitlich großformatige Ölbilder, die den heutigen Stil vorausahnen lassen: In die Tiefe gehende Themen, durch programmatische Unschärfe klar sichtbar gemachte Manipulation, wo Konkretes mühelos zu Abstraktem wird, ohne dabei jedoch den Inhalt zu verlieren.
Activities:
1987 – Alter Schlachthof, Wels (A)
1988 – Stadtcafe, Wels (A)
1989 – VKB, Wels (A)
1990 – Galerie Cafe, Wels (A)
2005 – Museum Geyerhammer, Scharnstein (A)
2006 – Museum Geyerhammer, Scharnstein (A)
2006 – Neue Galerie NÖFA, Wels (A)
2007 – Leopold Museum, Wien (A)
2008 – APW Gallery, New York (USA)
2009 – MondoPOP Gallery, Rom (I)
2009 – Neue Galerie NÖFA, Wels (A)
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