Gabi trinkaus biography of william

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Given the premise that art and beauty are not intrinsic to one another, with the portrait collages on show in the Georg Kargl BOX Gabi Trinkaus presents a conclusive response to the trivialisation and commoditisation of good looks and an industry that turns out an over-abundance of sloganeered glamour.

With the print media as her resource, Trinkaus produces a line-up of brutalised “mug shots” of faces, which could have been produced for a “before and after” documentation of the beauty industry. At first glance the portraits appear tranquil and serene, of almost photographic accuracy.

Upon further inspection, one finds to have been seduced into the unsettled terrain of countless small ripped pieces of images of lifestyle magazines and becomes engulfed in the Atlas of the task at hand.

In the work process the artist uses pins to place the pieces of paper on the surface of the canvas.

This gives the impression of a patien