Modern Art - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2016 - 80 Euro Cent

Black-and-white grids and lines that contradict the viewer's expectation by breaks and shifts - that's typical of Esther Stocker. Born in 1974 in Silandro in South Tyrol, the painter and installation artist loves to create predictable and then break it, as in the nameless work of 2015, which was selected for this stamp from the series "Young Art in Austria". Often she shows order in her work and resolves it in the next step. She applies this method in painting as well as in video works, installations and interventions on facades. She is also interested in the perception of art, which challenges her when she sets seemingly strict rules for her works and does not respect them herself.   Esther Stocker studied from 1994 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the class of Eva Schlegel. Later, she continued her education at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan and at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. In 2001 she received the state scholarship for fine arts. Esther Stocker also has several awards, she won the Anton Faistauer Prize as well as the Msgn. Otto Mauer Prize - one of the largest awards for visual arts in Austria - and the Prize of the City of Vienna for visual arts as well as the Paul Flora Prize. Today she works in Vienna - on the border between painting, space and object. Their colors are the "non-colors" black and white. For example, when she creates her lattice structures on paper and then folds and crumples them into huge balls that turn into sculptures, she explores the possibilities of an abstract language of form on all levels.