About

Born in 1979, Vienna, Michael Ornauer is an Austrian contemporary artist . He deals intensively with the possibilities of colour play and that of its substance and materiality. With the interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, he creates colourful and monochrome works and deliberately moves away from the obvious beauty and concentrates on the spirituality of Wabi-Sabi, the contemplation of imperfection and impermanence.

The Stripes series, is about rhythm and colour and structure, and random spread. With missing spots of colour and thick layers of paint that go beyond the edge of the picture, he works against the urge of the flawlessness. In the Monochrome series, Ornauer focues on the matured, veiled and broken, by overpainting colourful finished paintings with blackboard paint and then bringing out underneath layers of paint through final sanding. The Organic-Abstract series, is about letting the picture grow “organically”. The works are created in many passages and layer by layer, and are a combination of expressive gestural brush movements and a meditatively conscious creation process of color and compositional harmony.