claudia ungersbäck

On the occasion of the 19 years anniversary of my first exhibited artwork I opened up my sartworkketchbooks, arranged them with paintings and recently drawn works as well as photographic images, sketches made with cameras – in the bar I exhibited my early work.

The lines of images from 2000 until now, 2020, show interests and first lines of topics and sujets in an analoge way, a row of 20 years of sketching comparing a digital image account like facebook, instagram or twitter without linear time rows but slots in space.

Sketches between life studies, organized phantasy and my philosophical studies: a slight loss of picture in language, dissolving image in abstraction and abstract thought and building bridges between text, image and the classical approach of sketches in order of being the basis of the “real” developed artwork.

The exhibition shows portraits, moments in time and space, combining theory, poetry, images of mind and images of art history trying to develop and build new sentences in form, sound/text and volume.

According to a story in ancient greek about the beginning and roots of portraiture lies in a relationship. A woman from Korinth realizes that her beloved has to take a journey and in this awareness of of a future loss and fleeting of a moment in noticing the shadows on the wall, she grabbed a piece of wood charcoal and traced his silhouette on the wall of her room.

Rooted in relation to what´s in front of you, analyzing reality in the moment of drawing the line leading in form mixed with the desire of organizing chaos, thoughts and e/motion perseption in creation corresponding to used materials might be the attracted definition of art.

The exhibition focuses on phenomena and appearance through lines, forms and picture machines giving glances of reality.


Polaroids, the impossibility of reflecting digital images, mirrors and narrow portraits focussing without aperture, flat and the rejection of picture editing in lines and photocopy demands a cognition of points of time. Without preferences between “true” and “created” nature in a classical opinion of academic art in theories of mimesis, imagination and idea and conclusions in abstract thought “old and new sketches, 3 paintings and some music in a bar” 2000-2020

shows an approach of just being an eye with hands, eyes without scruples, no philosophical art, no painters that think but prosecuting a claim in developing and building new sentences as an artist, recognizing and concluding in an exhibition, realizing that some sketch stands on it´s own piece of paper.


A selection of the exhibited artworks, with little additions:




vogelkaernten

Kärnten, Austria | 2002

oskar

Oskar cutting a spoon out of wood, Zaragoza, Spain | 2007

tom

Tom | 2006

bandprobe

jamming, Vienna | 2002

anonymus

Dobroslav, Vienna | 2002

lisa

Lisa, Graz, Austria | 2003

maiglueckchen

Stilllife | 2002

tom

untitled | 2005

tom

Rovinje, Croatia and a part of the sculpture "Austrias power over the sea", Vienna | 2003

tvgestalt

TV figure | 2005

hoppala

ups | around 2002

darwinsnightmare

darwins nightmare | 2005

skull

death | 2005

zugkairo

train, Cairo | 2004

ostern

Easterfire, Austria | around 2003/4

aftertag

aftertag | 2013

panda

Stilllife with Panda | 2005

sketch paint

Sketch Paint| 2010

fish

Fish, anima | 2005

morpheus

morpheus| 2006/207

nurbravundleiseseinkomplett

just being nice and silent| 2001-2007

selfportrait me morning

Selfportrait in the morning| 2002/3

selfportraits

selfportraits | 2002-2007

nurbravundleiseseinpogo

just being nice and silent| 2001-2007

zimmer graubuenden

Room, Graubünden, Switzerland | 2007

bif

bif| 2003

invinoveritas

in vino veritas| 2005

massagekaefer

massagebeetles | 2005

madrid

Madrid, Spain | 2007

dobi2

anonymus, Vienna | 2005

dobi

Dobroslav | 2004

black bird

black bird | 2020

gedicht

untitled | around 2003

architektur

notes on architecture | 2005

beleidigt

disappointed| 2005

augenstarre

untitled| 2005

melkmaschine

melking machine, Gaubünden, Switzerland | 2007

sketch paint

view into backside of the court, Vienna| 2002

barcelona

Barcelona, Spain | 2005

schulstunde

class meeting | 2004

selfptrain

selfportrait in the train | 2005

portraits_stifte

untitled | 2004

akt_irland

nude drawing, Dublin, Ireland | 2020

schaukel

Fazana, Croatia | 2003



skelett

hug | 2004

deathandthegirl1

the girl and death 1 - and now?| 2007

deathandthegirl2

the girl and death 2 | 2007

deathandthegirl3

the girl and death 3 - switch over | 2007

berlin2004

Berlin, Germany | 2004

betty

Betty | 2004

haeckisaeck

untitled | 2003

animation_lecture

lecture on animation, Crakow, Poland | 2004





fehn

structures of form 1 | 2020

nehmaschine

structures of form 2 | 2020

wolke1

structures of form 4 | 2020

handy

structures of form 5| 2020

fehn

structures of form 6| 2020

kisten

structures of form 7 | 2020

birdy

structures of form 8 | 2020

wolke2

structures of form 9 | 2020

atelier1

structures of form 10| 2020

sonne

structures of form 11 | 2020

atelier2

structures of form 12 | 2020

moos

structures of form 13| 2020

blitz

structures of form 14| 2020

weg

structures of form 15| 2020

zeichnung

structures of form 16 | 2020

wolke3

structures of form 17 | 2020