reinhold neururer
 



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born in 1957  lives in Tarrenz / the Tyrol (Austria)

1972  - 1976 technical school for artisans at the technical high school in Innsbruck

1982 examination for the master’s certificate of joinery

1989  - 1990 pedagogical acadamy for professions Innsbruck

since 1983 teacher at the technical high school  Imst

artistical advanced training, among others at the international summer academy in Salzburg with professor Nancy Davidson

since 1993 exhibitions and participations at different  symposiums in Austria and abroad

2004  - 2006 several light and fire installations are generated

2007 installation topic  “Superorganism world wide web and collective intelligence“

2008 award winner at the competition for fine arts of the art forum Montafon

2009 Bad Ragartz 4. Swiss Triennale of sculpture in Bad Ragaz and Vaduz

2009 installation topic  "Great Barrier" on the Bieler Höhe / Silvretta

2009 1. award winner at the competition "Landartweekend" of the art forum Salvesen

2011  Höhler Biennale - Art under the old town of Gera/ Germany

2011  Forma Viva  Galeria Božidar Jakac  international symposium of sculptors Kostanjevica / Slovenia

2012  Bad Ragartz 5. Swiss Triennale of sculpture in Bad Ragaz and Vaduz

2012  5. Symposium of sculptors  City of Eppstein /Germany

2013  Sculptures in the Park  Int. Artists' Symposium Grafenhausen /Germany

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Reinhold Neururer’s works show a very particular figurative adoption of the world. This happens as the artist analizes the conception of nature. Of interest are not only the forms of the microcosmos and the macrocosmos, but also the forms of organisation that become clear and which are to be explored.

Both individual and mass and chaos and order face each other in a „microscopic“ view in a dialectic manner. Consequently, analogies with the social structures of the human being can be found. Topics such as connections, links, networks are posed in a multiplex exposition. For Reinhold Neururer it is fundamental to decipher the order of things.

Originating from the cognition of the theory of chaos und the collective intelligence, since 2005 works larger in size and surface have been generated.

The „picture“ vocabulary follows a peculiar geometric system of symbols. It is defined by individually generated modules which are multiplied and put in lines and which amplify, connect and net.


The „world wide web“, an installation created in 2007, illustrates such a connection. It was initiated by the artist and continued and concluded by friends. Only the form and the largeness were given. The enormous field of assembled tetrahedrons, a network of 2,500 wood mouldings each four metres, took a surface of approximately 8,000 square metres.

The constructions which get larger and more complicated are generated with an appropriate programme on the computer. The computer has taken over the role of the sketch, the drawing. In doing so, independent digital prints are created which mirror the two-dimensional sound of an idea. They illustrate experiments of thoughts and forms for installations that are to be created.

The artist leaves sculptural signs. His sphere of action is mainly nature, his works are interventions in the landscape. Most of his works are generated on site, whose characteristics are included. With it, the temporality of the objects and installations is connected spontaneously. Reinhold Neururer’s works have the nature of projects and are present terminally. However, their candidness and their perishability are in accordance with the change of the systems that is to be visualized.

   

Inge Praxmarer  art historian

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