Sensual escapes: Franz Mölk in the Flora Gallery
Untitled work from Franz Mölk’s new cycle “Expulsion from Paradise”. To be seen in the Flora gallery.
© Schlecker
Innsbruck – Franz Mölk is not one of those artists who feel the need to constantly reinvent themselves. On the contrary, the Tyrolean painter and graphic artist is someone who loves to quote himself, to think creatively further into what has once been formulated. And so the encounters with the unique art of fiction by Franz Mölk are always a feast for the eyes of art lovers who like it poetic. In order to be driven out of paradise with all your senses in the cycle of his new work. What seems to be a very enjoyable undertaking, it is dancing, elegantly bending young bodies that are at work here.
They are mostly almost naked, their eyes like to be blindfolded, which doesn’t prevent them from running into walls and doors, from breaking through them on their flight from apparently not really paradisiacal realms in often very profane. To land hard between cardboard boxes or shopping trolleys, which does not prevent the refugees from daring to dance with them. The ambience in which this event takes place, however, is more in the brain than in concrete reality. Gravity does not apply here, there is no front or back, the genders are diverse.
The painter Franz Mölk is ultimately a draftsman who loves to elevate the figures he has invented. Only one picture, in its densely painted dark colors, falls out of the well-known Mölk framework. And shows that they can – if they like – do it completely differently. (closed)
exhibition
Flora gallery. Herzog-Friedrich-Strasse 5, Innsbruck; until February 12, Tue – Fri 3–7 pm, Sat 10 am–1pm. Closed until January 6th.