04/10 We are floating in the air
by Eduardo Vega de Seoane (paintings) & Max Nagl (music)
April 4 – May 29, 2010
Impressions of the exhibition >
Eduardo Vega de Seoane, the Spanish painter ZS art presents for the first time in Austria, on "We are floating in the air":
In this moment of my life as a painter I feel a very aerial sensation. When I speak about air, I am speaking about breathing, life is breath, expiring, inhaling, blowing a saxophone.... That also leads me to a simplification of my language. I see my brush like the clouds in the sky creating different shapes. One of the most characteristic aspects of my work is spontaneity, is free painting - regardless of categories like representational or abstract art. To me a painting is something alive, a whole universe where things are happening, always closer to emotion than to reason. Art is always a personal experience, like love.
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The Austrian sax player and composer Max Nagl on his work for the show:
According to an imaginary saxophone's sound Eduardo Vega de Seoane paints music. I took the piece "keep hold of yourself", played Sonny Rollins' solo part three, even four times slower than the original, created an acoustic background by overlayering. In the end free jamming makes my canvas vibrate. The colourful sounds of my sax grant the aerial atmosphere of Eduardo's paintings the chance to be experienced through music as well.
Press review:
Eduardo Vega de Seoane’s paintings & jazz by Max Nagl. Eduardo Vega de Seoane is often referred to as an abstract expressionist. But he himself stands clear of all categorizations. The style which Seoane is particularly interested in, he calls “free painting” – the one that features writings, blotches of color and shapes that are more or less recognizable. Spring of 2010 marks Seoane’s initial exhibit in Austria. The painter’s artifice gives an introspective collage of his inner state. His brushes dance to the beat of his inventive imagination, making Seoane the creator of his own definitions. Every painting is decentralized, and even the simplest show a stylistic vocabulary that melts into his theme of “aerial acrobacy.” His images lift into suspended space with a type of lightness that usually attributed to amorphous entities. Seoane integrates the transcendental with form and color. During the painting exhibitions, the sounds of Max Nagl’s saxophone accompany, contributing to a sense of ethereal detachment characteristic or the painter’s work.
Zsuzsa Lukacs, The Vienna Review, May 2010