Sara Glaxia (b. 1982, Mexico) lives and works in Salzburg, Vienna, Berlin and Los Angeles. She studied at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and was private only pupil of artist Raymond Pettibon. Working with various media and forms her drawings, performances, installations and texts draw an exploration on the ordinariness of everyday life and its ritualised dimensions, the notions of radical subjectivity and the personal and public spheres of life. Her works are reminiscent of the fact of the social context of any artistic work and, on the other hand, document her glamorous outbreaks from it as well as her performative series of experiments of the continuous dismantling of social and economic barriers.[1]

Werk

"In Sara Glaxia’s work, the relation between production of the “self” through photography and the problem of the “I’s” authenticity is defined throughly differently. These are her personal experiences that the artist hyperbolises and transcribes into the contest of performances “about her self” . Glaxia works mostly with her own image and the masquerade of being, while photography remains for her yet another area of operation that enables her to produce and distribute her own image. Documentation of Glaxia’s narrative and performances reveals the performative character of photography operating simultaneously as an independent medium, and as one associated with her performances." TECHNICS OF RELEASE © Galeria Fotografi pf, 2015, Book Published by ZAMEK Culture Center, Poznan, Poland, p. 130 )

"Sara Glaxia is one of the most versatile and multifaceted Mexican contemporary artists. Her virtue is to represent pain, madness, human anxiety without any preludes or explanations. She tends to use an expressive primitivism (at times playful, sometimes tormented) and allows things or happenings to proceed in a natural fashion. Her sensitivity and character allow her to pave the way for artistic events to express themselves. She is an artist full of life, one defying classification, having lived in various countries of the world. Her intuition, a rebellious nature and shrewdness when it comes to dealing with the body, objects, and her own obsessions grant her a character that's unpredictable, yet always faithful to her own creative temper. Her rebellion is genuine and her intent (whether conscious or not) takes her work to unpredictable extremes. Sara Glaxia is her own language and in such a way she adapts herself to dance, music, painting or performance so as to transform them, deform them, transform them into happenings and objects of a different world. She is an extraordinary artist, a risky outsider whose future is being built every day. Every action and work of Sara's is exhausting by itself (appearing/disappearing) and definitive; in her art, the center is the periphery and the rebel act."

- Guillermo Fadanelli

"Keine Linie, kein Strich, kein Punkt in Sara Glaxias Zeichnungen un Bildern, wenn auch gekonnt gesetzt, ist routiniert, nicht von dem zu Sehenden will schon gesehen worden sein, keines ihrer fantastischen Wesen schon entdeckt. Unsere ältesten und unbekanntesten Freunde und Freundinnen stellen sich uns in ihren Bildern vor. Und mit ihnen wird vertraut-ungewöhnliches vor der Künstlerin in eine Arena geworfen, welche sich der Welt dermassen öffnet, dass sich weitesten Ausdehnungen dieses Bühne irgendwann wieder treffen und schliessen müssen. Mit ein wenig Glück kann man dann als Betrachterin sein Plätzchen zwischen Tusche und Papier finden und gesehen, wie sich eine Schlange zärtlich um ein Männchen kümmert, das stur gegen seine Eingene Seele rennt…"

- Alexander Emanuely

The “Galaxia Print” project is a print on silk of a drawing by Sara Glaxia. This fashion project was realized by designer Katy Rodriguez in Los Angeles, California in 2011. The designs had been presented at the fashion week in Paris on 2012.

Few years later the performance in collaboration with Anna Erb had to be done in regard of the this production to be not only a fashion item but an artwork as well, this show tuck place at Palace Lantieri, Gorizia, Italy in 2014.

Einzelausstellungen

  • Sara Glaxia, OASIS, Büro Weltausstellung, Vienna (2020)
  • Milk’s Turn, Palazzo Lantieri, Gorizia (2014)
  • BLACK BEAUTY Kunstbüro (2012)
  • NAKED COUTURE- Coco Gallery, Vienna (2009)
  • Sara Glaxia. Zeichnungen 2001-2006 Plattform - Raum für Kunst, Vienna, (2006),
  • Oh Yeah. Gelitin Studio, Vienna, (2000)

Gruppenausstellungen

  • Double Absence, pf Gallery of Photography, Zamek, Poznan (2015)
  • Island Iceland Offshore Project, Skatfell, Seydisfjödur (2015)
  • MAD#1 – Royal Book Lodge– at La Maison Rouge, Paris, (2015)
  • Vienna for Art’s Sake - Winterpalais der Prinzen Eugen, Vienna, (2015),
  • Oben & Unten; 3Haus Projekte, Vienna (2014)
  • Franz Graf. Siehe was dich sieht. Belvedere 21, Vienna, (2014)
  • Call to Jupiter (performance) Salotto Vienna, Pecceria, Trieste (2014)
  • LUCAS_BOSCH_GELATIN, opening performance, Kunsthalle Krems (2011)
  • Icelan hits Danube “Schwarz Heute Jetzt Haber Dass Schon Fast Vergessen” Kunsthalle Krems, Austria (2010)
  • Fractional Systems. Garage Project ll, Schindler Haus, MAK Center, LA (2010)
  • ARTRAT, PerformIC, Innsbruck (2008), “La Louvre” Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, FR (2007)
  • Tension; sex; dispair – aber hallo/na und?, Kunsthalle Exnergasse WUK Vienna, (2007)
  • ZWEITER BERLINER KUNSTSALON, Man Museum, Berlin (2004)
  • L’image de la jeunesse, un jour de fe^te, Gallery Nomadenoase, Paris (2004)
  • “Gelatin’s Armpit” Liverpool Biennial, UK (2002)
  • Rayos y Centellas, La Panadería, Mexico City (1998)

Kuratorische Projekte

  • 2014 "The Remnant’s Circus" at the 21er Haus museum, the finissage event for Franz Graf’s art show “See what sees you”

With contributions by Snorri Ásmundsson, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Tin Man, Tamara Dinka, Elin, Fredrik Fermelin, Michael Fischer, Les Tardes Goldschyder, Mario Grubisic, Michael Klaar, Eskil Loftsson, Cecilie Meng, Simon Mullan, Linus Nyström, Rade Petrasevic, Oliver Schlegelmilch, Linnéa Sjöberg, Nino Stelzl, Jeanne Susin, Michael Blumentopf, and food & drinks by Schorsch Böhme

Sammlungen

Lucciano Benetton Collection

Royal Book Lodge

Item Editions

Publikationen

  • Sara Glaxia – Serpentine Illusions[2] The book contains 60 drawings and texts from Sara Glaxia realized in Paris between 2012 and 2015.  The 28 copies were bound in the workshops of Annick Bienvenu in Paris, France.4 unique box sets contain embroidery realized by Frederick Petit from the artist’s drawings. ROYAL BOOK LODGE,
  • TECHNICS OF RELEASE © Galeria Fotografi pf, 2015 Book Published by ZAMEK Culture Center, Poznan, Poland Edited by Karolina Majewska-Güde, Dominika Karalus and Dorota Walentinowicz. pp. 130, 131, 303
  • Franz Graf. Schwarz heute jetzt habe dass schon fast vergessen Category 2: Kunstbände und Fotobücher Publisher: Hans-Peter Wipplinger (Kunsthalle Krems) Editorial: Kunsthalle Krems / Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg (D)pp. 62, 72, 261 ISBN 978-3-86984-025-3
  • IMAGO MUNDI ART, Lucciano Benetton Collection, Vienna for Art’s Sake, Archive Austria / Contemporary Art.[3] Curated by Peter Noever, FABRICA Editorial, 2014., p.112 ISBN 978–88–98764–06–8
  • FranzGraf-See What Sees you ©Catalogue 2014. 21er Haus, Vienna. Editos: Agnes Husslein-Arco, Severin Dünser pp. 100, 101, 136, 158 ISBN 978-3-902805-44-7
  • ”SALONG FLYTTKARTONG” Book © Linnea Sjölberg 2014 Nilleditions, Tryck av Holmbergs, Malmö pp. 37, 38, 101, 102. ISBN: 9789176090817
  • Vrai ou Faux? ©Veronique Bougoin, 2013 Editorial Fotohof & Royal Book Lodge newspaper p.53 book p.177
  • Sara Lucas, Hieronimus Bosch, Gelatin ©2011 Catalloge Edited by Hand-Peter Wipplinger Published by Walter König p.0 (Cover Photo) ISBN 9783863350536
  • Fractional Systems Catalogue Garage Project ll, Schindler Haus, MAK Center Los Angeles, 2010 pp. 102, 103, 104, 105 ©ARTFORUM magazine LA FREAK, C'EST CHIC 2008, Paris, ISBN 978-3-99300-024-0
  • Chinese Synthese Leberkäse by Gelatin Book published in juntion with exhibition, ISBN 3-86560-081-6 Kunstler Haus Bregenz 2006 Printed by BUCHER Kunst Verlag Netzwerk, Hohenems pp. 46, 57, 59
  • Gelatin's Sweatwat, Sweatwat Publication © 2006 Gagosian Gallery, Editors- Stefan Ratibor, Kay Pallister and Alison McDonald Copy Editors- Nicole Heck and Donnald Kennison p.29 ISBN 1-932598-31-6
  • Sammlung Taubenstrasse Catalogue concept by Tjorg Beer, Revolver, 2004, p.42 ISBN 978-3-86588-064-2

Weblinks

Einzelnachweise

  1. SARA GLAXIA. Abgerufen am 12. Februar 2021.
  2. Serpentine Illusions | Royal Book Lodge. Abgerufen am 12. Februar 2021.
  3. Imago Mundi. Abgerufen am 12. Februar 2021.