Bambinart Gallery is pleased to announce the four artists' drawings exhibition by Edgar Honetschläger,, Martin Walde , Gabriele Sturm and Midori Mitamura.

In the autumn six years ago, Midori had a solo showing in Secession Vienna that Maltin Walde was a board member of the committee. At that time, She met Edgar Honetschläger and Gabriele Sturm who are well known international artists. And then their relationships started. By chance 2012 is 150 years anniversary of Gustav Klimt. This exhibition appreciates to introduce four artists’ drawing works connected by Vienna.

In the end of 19th century, Wiener Secession was established by Klimt and around him. Wiener Moderne that remarkably affected various cultures and philosophies, appeared free and novel artists apart from academic establishments. And those spirits are inherited to contemporary Wiener artists. The fact that Vienna is a town where particular urbiculture was developed as all sorts of European people and languages met, has been providing deep research and critical thinking　about politics, history and social environment to art works.
In the other hand, their beautiful expressive styles are light and witty, not only emphasized too much concept.
We can see those unique style looking for beauty as well as developing various concepts are also reflected into drawings.

［作家プロフィール］
Edgar Honetschläger is an artist, screenwriter and film director (born in 1963 and raised in Austria). He has spent four years of his life in the United States (New York, LA, San Francisco), more than ten years in Japan (Tokyo), a casual year in Italy (Rome and Palermo) and a stressful year in Brazil (Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia). Today he makes his homes in Tokyo and Vienna, directing the EDOKO institute, but he continues traveling the globe extensively. The common denominators of his work are the themes of INDIVIDUALISM and the celebration of CULTURAL DIFFERENCES. DIVERSITY IS NECESSITY – anything mono casts a threat to the beauty of different expressions/believes/languages/approaches toward life. Understanding other cultures is not a given – the question is rather if it is possible at all – for sure it needs a maximum of tolerance (nobody is without prejudice). Linear understanding of HISTORY is a misconception just as the Western idea of LOVE is only one possible approach within the interaction of humans. Honetschläger expresses these beliefs by means of drawing, painting, film, as well as performance, installation and photography. Many solo and group exhibitions in museums inside and outside the county. 1997 Documenta X. Recently he is also active as an film director. 2005 World EXPO in AICHI, Japan. Many films shouted in Japan 1997 "MILK", 2011 long film "AUN" has participated to many film festivals in the world.

Gabriele Sturm　 born in Lienz in 1968. Gabriele Sturm studied Psychology and worked in different situations in the social field. Then she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (1995 – 2002) under Markus Prachensky and Heimo Zobernig. She lives and works in Vienna. Gabriele Sturm researches issues she encounters personally in her daily life. These issues of her daily life open widening gaps between the familiar and the strange, the close and the far away, the micro and macro areas, the historical and the present. To structure the information Gabriele Sturm gains, she draws maps. She also combines topic-related maps with the significant images of her research. In the exhibition space she transforms „research“ into a cartography all over the space as an important communication tool with installation, collage, drawing, photography, painting and video. Similar to Max Ernst´s method to use anti-modern picture languages like woodcuts and old illustrations from books, Gabriele Sturm quotes historical themes and combines them with her own present experiences in a simple and unpretentious collage technique with bright sense and sensibility and actual political presence. She shows a series of her recent project "Paradise Birds". That is a project she has been working on since 2009. One day, Gabriele Sturm met stuffed birds of paradise in a museum in Bremen, Germany. She had a flash of recognition of these feathers. Childhood memories return – a lady with a hat in a tram with strange feathers. She remembered watching the bobbing movements of these feathers for a few stopps and she suddenly saw them again at the end of the tail of a little bird skin. Gabriele Sturm wanted to see, what connections there are and learned about the trade between German and Austria, and also German and Papua New Guinea. In her travels she retraces the process of the transfer between these places, different cultures and times seen through artist´s eyes and wants to bring the thread running through the research into the present. So she traveled to Papua New Guinea to trace "The Journey of the Feathers“. Gabriele Sturm calls those drawings De-Collage/ De-illustration. Gabriele Sturm has shown her projects on the Museum of ZKM - a solo show „Weatherstation 2029“ at ZKM Media –Lounge curated by Peter Weibel, a solo show „bolt holes of paradise“ Galerie 5020, the solo show „The Journey of the Feather“ art in public space in Austria, Germany and Belgium. She participated in the famous „UN/FAIR TRADE“ exhibition at Neue Galerie Graz – steirischer Herbst 2007 kurated by Günther Holler-Schuster und Peter Weibel, in „Block“ Apex Art in New York, curated by Ute Meta Bauer, „art – archives“ in Paris and Nantes, curated by Robert Fleck, France; and several times in Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna

Martin Walde was born in Innsbruck, Austrian province of Tyrol in 1957. He studied at the Academy of Fine Art, Vienna. He was awarded the Otto Mauer Prize in 1991. In 1998 he received the City of Vienna’s Prize for Fine Art. After repeated sojourns in Paris, he makes his home today in Vienna and in New York. Walde has been working in the media of drawing, object art, installation, and, recently, also in video. "Aperto 86” Venezia Biennale 1986 "Chambres d’Amis," a legendary exhibition held in a number of private rooms in Ghent, Belgium, 1997 DocumentaX, 1996 Secession Vienna, 1998 Biennial Montreal, 2011 Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art Walde has produced installations that visitors could sense bodily with the tactile unstable material such as gel and a thin film. His viewpoint is turned out from the background of extremely daily things and gets a hint for the complicated mixture of various feelings including uneasiness and the fear joy. While its presentations look strange, they are light and fantastic with full of humor. A feeling of strange world that is going back and forth in reality and the non-real border caused by unreliable and fleeting material prominently appears in the drawing. Tokyo opera city art gallery opening exhibition "liberation of the sense" of 1999, 2001 Fuchu city art museum exhibition, workshop and a lecture.

Midori Mitamura was born in Aichi prefecture in 1964. MItamura has exhibited her works widely in various countries around the globe since 1993. In 2006, she held a solo exhibition in Secession Vienna becoming the second Japanese artist to hold a solo exhibit there since Nobuyoshi Araki in 1997. She has also participated in many group exhibitions such as one at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Russia) and Museum of Modern Art in Salzburg (Austria). Recently Mitamura also place emphasis on communication art-project "Art & Breakfast" that is traveling all over the world. Midori Mitamura's installations structure space through the combination of various materials such as photos,images, music, language, old clothes and second hand goods. And then she pretend that it’s "a drama which people can venture into." The objects displayed in the space exist like picture book illustrations and the people who view them can imagine a story for each item. Her artworks try to share with people awkward and endearing emotion and memory that are familiar and close to anyone and everyone's lives through the everyday details of life.