The dramatic and expressionistic work of Berlin-based artist Xenia Hausner captures the personal and social conflicts of both the artist and her subjects with an unmatched intelligence and depth of feeling. With unflinching directness, she engages the viewer using radical color and aggressive brushstrokes. As we are drawn into her paintings, her characters reveal themselves with the same abandon that defines the artist's bold and daring technique. Heart Matters, which documents Hauser's first one-person show at the Forum Gallery, New York, showcases work that combines the energetic and unsettling style of such German artists as Otto Dix and Max Beckman with the warmth and subjective immediacy of figurative art. In portraying the emotional lives of her subjects with such an attentive eye and heart, Hausner highlights the passion for love, desire, survival, and knowledge that still exists within our fragmented and often cold and disorienting culture. With her unique approach Hausner offers an insight into the hopes and dreams of the people she paints, enabling us to see them as figures with a past, present, and future--and in the process she reveals the truths and paradoxes inherent in her life and ours.

Xenia Hausner: Heart Matters

Arts & Photography

Kuspit, Donald

SCHMIED, WIELAND

Borovsky, Aleksandr

Weirmair, Peter

Hausner, Xenia

Individual Artists

Forum Gallery, New York

Dramatic and richly colorful, the works of Austrian painter Xenia Hausner have long captivated audiences through their unflinchingly realistic portrayal of the emotional states of her subjects. At once intimate portraits of individuals and reflections of the larger society, Hausner’s paintings aptly capture both the personal and social dimensions of conflict. At the center of this volume is Hausner’s most recent series of paintings, Damage. The subject of a recent solo exhibition at the Shanghai Art Museum, Damage adopts as its inspiration incidences of love, loss, violence, interpersonal confrontation, and the precariousness of human relationships. Showcasing these works through a spectacular series of full-color illustrations, the book also brings together numerous photographs and text documenting the development of the paintings and providing insight into Hausner’s artistic and creative process, as well as her characteristic bold use of color and light, inspired by her work as a set designer. Xenia Hausner is among the most interesting artists working in the Austrian realist movement, and Xenia Hausner: Damage offers a fitting introduction to her prolific body of work.

Xenia Hausner: Damage (English, Chinese and German Edition)

History & Criticism

Hirmer Verlag

Hide and seek - concealing and revealing. In her new works, Xenia Hausner creates a fictive reality, which she reinvents with surprising twists and turns. We find people teetering on the edge, always as risk of tripping on the loose stones of reality's absurdity, and we become observers of the eternal game of hide and seek when our idea of reality coincides with our experience. First nature and second nature, reflected nature, merge for a brief moment without any resistance.

Xenia Hausner: Hide And Seek (English and German Edition)

Metzger, Rainer

Aigner, Carl

Sykora, Katharina

Reference

Prestel Pub

Xenia Hausner: Lucky Break Rainer Metzger and Katharina Sykora 
A new book on Xenia Hausner, the artist who is a leading figure in Vienna’s hugely influential realist movement. 
Hausner’s use of bold color and dramatic lighting—the product of her career as a set designer—offer as much insight into the emotional state of the artist as they reveal about the people she depicts. Lucky Break approaches Hauser’s work through the context of her creative process. Designed by Hausner herself, the book’s broad, horizontal format incorporates photographs, sketches, and notes—assembled like collages—to enhance brilliant reproductions of her pieces. Accompanying the illustrations are essays discussing the influence of Hausner’s work in the theater and on her art, focusing on her search for motifs. 
Rainer Metzger is an art historian and teacher, who lectures on art history at the University of Stuttgart. 
Katharina Sykora is professor of nineteenth and twentieth-century art history in Brunswick, Germany, and has published widely on new media.

Xenia Hausner: You & I

Prestel

Xenia Hausner: Liebesfragmente (German Edition)

Wienand Verlag

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