Positions Berlin Art Fair

12.09 - 15.09.24

Vijion Art Gallery is pleased to present the artists Cornelia Lochmann, Valeria Stuflesser, Josef Kostner and Egon Digon at the Positions Art Fair 2024. With the work of these four artists, Vijion Art Gallery aims to show the many possibilities of contemporary figurative art. The presentation is complemented by abstract wooden sculptures. 

Cornelia Lochmann_Cornelia Lochmann's art is characterised by passionate, emotional intensity. A poetic magic surrounds her work. The viewer is drawn into her spell and can participate in what is depicted. The curiosity to explore these secret realms is what makes the artist's work so exciting. It is impossible to escape the impression of these fascinating pictures, as they open up the mystery of things and intensify consciousness. 

Valeria Stuflesser_ The sculptor Valeria Stuflesser deals with contemporary themes in a figurative way. Aware that sculpture is an overloaded field, as formal language quickly creates a strong link to the art-historical past, she seeks a way to link contemporary themes in post-conceptual thinking, avoiding formal discourse and thus creating a new sensibility. These energetic, animalistic figures of young women symbolise a general new beginning. In keeping with our zeitgeist of a new female future, these sculptures express many ideas.  

Josef Kostner_ Becoming a figure and a human being is the central concept in Josef Kostner's art. It contains all of the struggles, all the struggles, rejections and new beginnings. Every work is about bringing something into the world, about the labour pains of finding form, which start all over again with every sculpture. These are emotionally charged images of people. With caricatured, distorted, grimacing, grinning and simple-minded facial expressions. The eyes are always slightly shifted as in the early cubist sculptures, which intensifies the grimace. There is no doubt that someone here has a gift for psychological empathy and a clear gaze that precisely captures the essence of his subject.

Egon Digon_ Egon Digon manipulates wood so that it resembles something as soft as foam rubber. He breaks the solidity of the rigid material and transforms it into a fluid mass in motion. The compression and apparent thrust of the wood material takes on deformations and breaks the formal aesthetics of the original, geometric form. Each work by the artist Egon Digon is the result of a series of decisions that always entail different actions and reactions from a technical and semantic point of view. By carving the material wood, he retains its recognized value in terms of art history.