johannes_steininger_m.a._m_a_

Inflatables, expanding works of art, air-filled hybird sculpture paintings. 

My investigation is based into the visual and spatial relationships between painting and sculpture. I assemble complex air supported wall-mounted works in which the surface the embossed lines are individual bas-reliefs and give rise to abstract or pictorial compositions, tracing and embossing the dotted lines and shapes directly onto the vinyl layers itself, i turn the physical components of the artwork into inside outside.

They artwork deals with the aspects and meanings of the medium air, examine their manifestations. Air enters our body with the first breath and with death we exhale the last breath. Each sculpture is a transformation of pure air. Interested in a hybrid paintings potential to create with the medium air the form of an actual object to function as the very embodiment of the object it depicts, the essential qualities of air.