Heinz Frank in his apartment, 2020. Photo credit Nathalie Badr. INSOFERN., 1979, Pencil, crayon, chalk on paper, 21.9 x 29.7 cm. Studio Heinz Frank, Vienna, 2018. Photo credit Wolfgang Thaler. Note, “DIESE ZUNGE” SPRICHT WORTLOS AUS DER LEERE! (“This tongue” speaks without a word from the void!), before today. Photo credit Marcel Köhler. Exhibition view, NICHT MIT WENIGER MEHR SONDERN MIT ALLEM NICHTS, TUT NOT. (Not with less more but with all nothing, is needed.), MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, 1992. Photo credit Margherita Krischanitz/MAK. Heinz Frank’s apartment, Vienna, 2021. Photo credit Wolfgang Thaler. Heinz Frank, Gigerl, around 1970, Vienna. Photo credit Gabriela Brandenstein. Exhibition view, DAS LOCH IN MEINER SEELE UND IHR GLÄSERNES KLEID, (The hole in my soul and its transparent dress), LambdaLambdaLambda at Bureau des Réalités, Brussels, 2018. Photo credit Isabelle Arthuis. Exhibition view, SCHWELLE ZU NICHTS DRAUSSEN. (Threshold to nothing inside and nothing outside.), Architektur Zentrum Wien, Vienna, 1993. Photo credit Margherita Spiluttini / Architekturzentrum Wien, Sammlung. Note, DAS EINE LOCH ODER DAS ANDERE, ODER UMGEKEHRT. (One hole or the other, or vice versa.), 1973. Studio Heinz Frank, Vienna, 2018. Photo credit Wolfgang Thaler. Exhibition view, NICHT MIT WENIGER MEHR SONDERN MIT ALLEM NICHTS, TUT NOT. (Not with less more but with all nothing, is needed.), MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, 1992. Exhibition view, The hole and the mirror, LambdaLambdaLambda, Prishtina, 2020. Installation view, DAS DRACHEN-NASHORN IM INNERSTEN IST DAS RHINO ODER UMGEKEHRT (The dragon-rhinoceros inside is the rhino or vice versa). 2020, Site-specific installation for RIBOCA 2 and suddenly it all blossoms, Riga Biennale, Riga, 2020. Photo credit Hedi Jaansoo.
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Heinz Frank
He was within the Viennese art scene, the grand master of the play of language and forms through which he – in his perambulation through the locales of the city, and clad in his idiosyncratic, dandyesque attire – pitted a radical form of subjectivity against the conventions of the present day. Each of his exhibitions formed a stage for the performance of a drama that was usually enacted by paintings, sculptures, objects, items of furniture, masks, carpets, and rocks, as well as found objects, one whose protagonists were (for example) “nothingness, the immensity of the hole, the circle whose center pledges its loyalty.” Wordplays are an essential element of Frank’s oeuvre. Using “whichever paper,” Frank notated his ideas in micropoems and aphorisms, which resemble haikus. He used pencils because they are “erasable, then the texts can come back when needed.” These texts were the beginning and the end of every work, a process of thought and its visualisation by the means of objects.
Heinz Frank (1939-2020) studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and has been working as an artist since the 1960s.
Frank recently had solo-exhibitions at Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (2019); Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2019) and Bureau des Réalités, Brussels (2018). His works have been included in numerous group-exhibitions, most recently at MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna (2021); Riga Biennale, Riga (2020); Museum der Moderne, Salzburg (2019); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2019); Tanya Leighton, Berlin (2019) and Landesgalerie Linz (2018).
His works are part of several public collections, including mumok – museum of modern art Vienna; MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna; Rupertinum, Salzburg and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, among others.
The last sculpture that has been realised during Frank’s lifetime was part of the 2nd Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, RIBOCA2, curated by Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel in 2020.
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