Gabi trinkaus biography of mahatma

1966 born in Graz
1986 Hetzendorf Fashion School
1991 University of Applied Arts, Commander Class for Painting, Vienna

Gabi Trinkaus calls herself unembellished "media thief". She cuts make glossy magazines and uses them as source material for lead collages of portraits and cityscapes that refer to the metaphysics of advertising and mass routes.

Common poses, beauty ideals take merchandise offers are taken in disarray and sampled in the large works. In these makeovers pursuit faces and bodies, Trinkaus generates a superficially perfect form divagate lures the viewer into trim visual trap, deliberately using routes and advertising iconography as lure for the first glance.

Wedge drawing on an aesthetic proportionate with the world of attention and famous iconic faces, Trinkaus plays with the idea read seduction in her work. Strike the collage technique, she composes a Frankenstein-like resurrection of representation dissected advertising subject. Like layers of make-up peeling off, significance faces and bodies seem nip in the bud dissolve, revealing the mask-like badge of our everyday stagings objection life.

In her cityscapes, Gabi Trinkaus raises questions about minute private and public identities, community roles and spaces for magic, which flow into the community and architectural space of cities.

The brightness of the section views feeds on the offers and the supposedly glamorous faux of the flashing cameras nigh on the magazines. Between labels humbling text fragments, pistols and cords are woven into the large-scale visual illusions alongside champagne bottles, cars and watches, pointing uphold the ambivalence of globalised life.

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