The exhibition "Seeing with the inner eye..." is a profound testimony to Uta Peyrer's tireless creative power and creative engagement with the world, which can be admired at the Mattersburg Cultural Center until 2 June 2024. Visitors are invited to immerse themselves in Peyrer's galactic universe and be inspired by the meditative power of her art.
Uta Peyrer. Seeing with the Inner Eye ... © Uta Peyrer
Uta Peyrer became a self-taught painter. In 1957, she married the sculptor Karl Prantl (1923-2010), who was 16 years her senior. Faith and religiosity were deeply rooted in her childhood. As a young adult, she familiarized herself primarily with Asian spirituality. She drew her creativity from these inspirational sources. This is already evident in her early paintings. She calls them "prayer", "Shintotor" or "saturated time". She reinforces the expressiveness of her paintings with titles such as "Himmelslied", "Morgenraga"... The artist reworks her paintings time and again. Even the smallest changes disrupt the complexity of the order and sometimes require it to be rearranged. She captures the times of day and seasons in a skillful play of colors, creating a color cosmos in which the viewer finds himself or gets lost. The mood of this atmosphere, the color tones that characterize it, are among the essential effective qualities of this painting. When Uta Peyrer speaks of "red space", "gold space" or "time processes up to brightness" in individual titles, she is referring to these colorful worlds and meanings.
April 9 to June 2, 2024
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