GUNTER DAMISCH
PARTS OF THE WHOLE. WÜRTH COLLECTION AND WORKS ON LOAN
15 JUNE 2023 TO 2 JUNE 2024
left: Gunter Damisch, Freidegger Sonnenfeldweltwege, 1999, Sammlung Würth, Inv. 12179 | right: Gunter Damisch, Pflanzturmkonstrukt, 2010, Sammlung Würth, Inv. 14671
With his highly colourful and stylised paintings and sculptures the Austrian artist Gunter Damisch (1958–2016) opens up a whole cosmos for us which, though abstract, appears to be equally close to nature. We see worlds as if through a microscope, permeated by amorphous bodies, amoeba-like “little animals", pathways, networks and loops, which the artist referred to as a lithely flowing system.
The poetic work titles help us to decode the works, pointing us towards the dominant colour, the prevailing dynamism or the object in the painting. For Gunter Damisch, language was yet another, essential means of expression, in both the titles and the texts and poems, which he attached to his works. Gunter Damisch´s oeuvre evolved in different media. He was a draughtsman, a painter and a sculptor, simultaneously and interdependently.