Flora Neuwirth

Flora Neuwirth's exhibition was developed in cooperation with KlangspurenSchwaz, the Festival of New Music in Schwaz. The point of departure for this projectand the element linking it to Klangspuren was the music festival's programmatic focus on compositions by Olga Neuwirth, the artist's sister. Flora Neuwirth, in turn, initially focused on her sister's work and personal surroundings, yet gradually separated herself from such biographical proximity, turning instead towards a reflection on her sister's working conditions and production localities.

Graphic transpositions of other literary figures, architects' and artists' studios are juxtaposed to her sister's workrooms. Frank Stella’s Diavolozoppo represents the sole direct connection to Olga Neuwirth's musical oeuvre. In her orchestral work, hoomoolooloo of 1997, the composer referred to Stella's picture, which now appears in the exhibition displaying the same qualities of reprocessing as do the other pieces of movable scenery from her life - as a copy.

In Flora Neuwirth’s exhibition, then, real objects, mental reference points and extensions of content take on a compact worldview of distance and proximity, of public display and anonymous withdrawal.