Werner Reiterer — À propos — Slash Paris

Werner Reiterer was born in Graz, Austria in 1964. He now lives and works in Vienna, Austria.

“Werner Reiterer’s works walk a fine line between sense and nonsense, exploiting art’s close proximity to life as a means of challenging literal descriptions of reality.

In a manner that blurs the boundaries of art and humor, his richly engaging sculptures ask us to participate in their realisation while his drawings disturb our expectations of the ordinary in imaginings of absurd proportion.

And by scrambling the relationship of images and language he is able to turn our perceptions upside down and, in ways that are both entertaining and illuminating, reassert the power of art to change our lives."

Julien Robson, Excerpt from «Text(e)s», Loevenbruck Editions, Paris, 2009

The artist is currently represented by Cosar HMT in Dusseldorf, Krinzinger Gallery in Vienna, Krupp Gallery in Basel, Lendl Gallery in Graz, and Loevenbruck Gallery in Paris.

Werner Reiterer’s works walk a fine line between sense and nonsense, exploiting art’s close proximity to life as a means of challenging literal descriptions of reality. In a manner that blurs the boundaries of art and humor, his richly engaging sculptures ask us to participate in their realization while his drawings disturb our expectations of the ordinary in imaginings of absurd proportion. And by scrambling the relationship of images and language he is able to turn our perceptions upside down and, in ways that are both entertaining and illuminating, reassert the power of art to change our lives.