Gabriela Nepo-stieldorf

Gabriela Nepo-Stieldorf

Location: Austria

After studies of pedagogics education to ceramics and sculpture, Invitations to symposias and artist in residence in many coutries of the world, lecturer of universities and art schools, curator from intern. art projects. like IKSIT; grants for Italy and Greece, awards: in IV. World Triennial of small Ceramics/ Zagreb, and in IV. Cairo intern. Bienniale for ceramics, golden decoration from the Austrian republic,
member of IG Bildende Kunst – the national artists' association of Austria, the Künstlerhaus Wien Vienna. Sculpture network and INTAKT


Portfolio:

me and more, selfportrait

Wrappers are boundary of internalisation, feelings, sensitivities , experiences, vulnerability. They are protection and sheath against the exterior, but at once offer and invitation for the spectator to unveil the mantling. According to the material light, transparency, colors, shades ore reflections within distortion are important design elements of the form language of Gabriela Nepo-Stieldorf. It creates a challenging interaction between transparent conceptual formulation and haptic expressive realisation. ( Dr. Walpurga Kössler)
3 bodyshapes forming a triangle, embracing each other, one for spirit with eyes, one for soul with hands over the heard an one for body with mouth over the laughing mouth

me and more, selfportrait “me and more, selfportrait”

3 bodyshapes forming a triangle, embracing each other, one for spirit with eyes, one for soul with hands over the heard an one for body with mouth over the laughing mouth

wrappers “wrappers”

Culture and civilisation means to exercise dealing with the media, with this kind of hulls which interfere inside and outside, between ones selve and the others: the body, the skin, clothes, language. Gabriela Nepo-Stieldorf presents a whole caleidoscope of human earthliness in her works. The plea for body, history, emotions and for here and now of this world can be seen in her opus. They can be read as warnings to stand against suppression of authenticity in the virtual media, to stay alert to the mania of the technical perfection of human being and his duplication in simulacrum. ( Bernhard Braun, assistant professor at the theological university Innsbruck)