Angela Glajcar

Angela Glajcar's sculptural material is paper, which she masterfully combines to create sculptures and installations ranging from intimate to monumental in scale. Her works play masterly with lightness and heaviness, balance and tension, calm and movement, light and shadow, body and contour, the part and the whole. And so art is created that is convincing, enriching, meaningful, enjoyable and sensual. (Thomas Häusle, Kunstraum Dornbirn) To the happy circumstance that Glajcars solo museum presentations in Austria took place at two locations we owe a special contribution to the catalogue. The text by Gerda Ridler builds on the first exhibition Dreamcatcher - Traumfänger, which she herself curated in the Lower Austrian State Gallery in Krems, and skilfully draws a connection to the project FLASHBACK at Kunstraum Dornbirn. Elisabeth von Samsonows essay affords a knowledgeable theoretical investigation and contextualization of Glajcars art through an in-depth and comparative medial perspective; an approach to the sensual effect of the works and to the phenomenon of the hole as a central element of the installations. The exhibition in Dornbirn was given an extraordinary addition on its opening evening by the dance performance Sound Layers. Sina Wagners catalogue essay comments on this experience with feeling and insight.