About The Artist
CULTURES VARY YET BLEND IN HARMONY - THIS INSIGHT HAS SHAPED ARTIST ERNESTINE FAUX AND IS EXPRESSED VISUALLY IN HER PAINTINGS
Ernestine Faux’s works can be found in highly recognized collections in Europe, Australia, Asia and the United States. Her art has played a role in numerous cooperative projects among international businesses: hotel chains, restaurants and large corporations have entrusted her with the task of creatively styling their business spaces in recent years. Spending decades on various continents interacting with a variety of cultures, she has developed her own unique yet universal colour language.
Recently Ernestine Faux has produced large-format outdoor installations that allow the viewer to intimately participate in the colours. These discs, embedded in natural outdoor and urban settings, can be approached from all sides, inviting the viewer to absorb the magnetizing colour they radiate and sense as it were its physical energy.
Born in Graz, AT, the freelance artist sought already in her early years to balance her interests between fashion design and the visual arts, so that her subsequent international career in the fashion industry shaped in part her work as an artist. Ernestine Faux spent more than 20 years in the Middle East and Asia before finally dedicating herself full-time in 1994 to her calling as an artist. In 1996 she returned to Austria and committed herself to the study of colour, light and sound.
Artist Ernestine Faux consciously perceives colour as a language of the emotions, not only perceived through the eyes but also penetrating body and spirit. This is in effect what makes Ernestine Faux’s work so unique: while experimenting with the contemplative power of colour, she engages with the vibrations emanating from it. On the threshold of her image space, the viewer is usually greeted by simple geometrical shapes, painted with greater precision in some cases and more softly and diffusely in others.
1958 I Born in Graz, Austria
1977 I Academy for Fashion & Art Hetzendorf – Vienna , Austria I Director Otto Liewehr)
Lived and worked 20 years in the Middle East, Africa and Asia
Since 2000 shares her living and working- time between Graz, Austria, USA and Bali Indonesia.
SOLO - EXHIBITIONS
2018 / MIR - Museum im Rathaus Gleisdorf / Gleisdorf / A
2017 / Künstlerpavillion / Frühjahrsmesse Graz / Graz / A
2013 / In the name of colour / St. Salvator Galerie / Graz / A
2012 / Meine farbräume / Mall Galerie / Krone Center Graz / A
2009 / Licht & Dunkel / BMF Kunstraum / Leibnitz / A
2011 / Über den Wolken / Flughafengalerie Graz Thalerhof / Graz / A
2008 / Klim Art Zonen III / Galerie Steiner / Wien / A
2008 / Klim Art Zonen II / Klinikum Galerie Foyer / Deutschlandsberg / A
2007 / Klim Art Zonen I / Galerie Weberhaus / Weiz / A
2006 / Aus der Ferne…/ Galerie MC. Marschalek / Wien / A
2006 / Form Farbe Klang / Steirisches Feuerwehrmuseum Kunst & Kultur / Groß Sankt Florian A
2005 / Galerie MC Marschalek / Wien / A
2001 / Ecksaal Galerie Joanneum, Graz, A
1999 / Impression Gallery, Ying & Yang, Sedona, CA / USA
SELECTED COMMISSIONED ARTWORK
2019 COCOON– COLOUR SCULPTURE– magenta red I Szent Andràs Kastely I HU
2019 FRAME – COLOUR SCULPTURE – safran I Public park I Feldkirchen by Graz I A
2019 CHROMATIC COLOUR DISK – safran I Public park I Feldkirchen by Graz I A
2017 SQUARES – red I Scheelen GmbH Institut for Managementdiagnostik Graz I A
2017 CHROMATIC COLOUR DISK – cadmium I Garten der Seele I Bernhard Haanl I A
2017 CROMATIC COLOUR DISK – green I Garten der Seele I Bernhard Haanl I Güssing I A
2013 FOUR COLOURS I Scheelen GmbH Institut for Managementdiagnostik Graz I A
2012 GREEN GATE I Bitepoets GmbH Software & App Developer Graz I A
2008 EARTH I Art collection I LKH Deutschlandsberg I Public Hospital I Styria I A
2006 PELEANGI I Art collection I Privat Medical Center Ragnitz I Graz I A
2006 MASMILLENIUM 1-5 I Tony Romas Restaurant I US Franchise I Bangkok / THAI
2005 CIRCLE I Die Brücke I Event Center I Vienna I A
2005 MELTING CONTRAST - orange 1 I CPK Restaurant I US Franchise I Singapore / SING
2005 MELTING CONTRAST - orange I CPK Restaurant I US Franchise I Kuala Lumpur I MAL
2005 LUMINOUS LIGHT 1 I CPK Restaurant I US Franchise I Kuala Lumpur I MAL
2004 LUMINOUS LIGHT 2 I CPK Restaurant I US Franchise I Restaurant I Shanghai I CHN
2004 KAMASUTRA I Tony Romas Restaurant I US Franchise I Shanghai I CHN
2003 HEART RHYTHM I CPK Restaurant I US Franchise I Hong Kong I CHN
2001 LOTUS CIRCLE I Die Brücke I Event Center I Vienna I A
1998 YESTERDAY & TOMORROW I Tony Romas Restaurant I US Franchise I Berlin I D
1997 CIRCLE OF LIGHT I Art collection I Privat Medical Center Hansa I Graz I A
1996 FORTUNATE BLESSINGS I Tony Romas Restaurant I US Franchise I Hong Kong I CHN
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 / Lichträume / Artmark Galerie / Wien / A
2017 / Auktion 5 / Ressler Kunst Ausktion / Wien / A
2015 / Auf den zweiten Blick / Steirisches Feuerwehrmuseum „Kunst & Kultur“ / Groß Sankt Florian / A
2014 / Black / Artfactory Graz / Graz / A
2008 / Donna Mobile, Gleisdorf, A
2007 / Austrian Cultural Forum Bratislava / „Donna Mobile“ / SK
2006 / Kunsthaus Weiz / „S(t)ein oder nicht S(t)ein“ / Weiz / A
2005 / Austrian Foreign Trade Office Krakow / „Donna Mobile“ / PL
2004 / Austrian Cultural Forum Milano / „Donna Mobile“ / I Austrian Cultural Forum Bled / „Donna Mobile“ / SI
2004 / ORF (Austrian Television) Gallery Graz, „Donna Mobile“ / Graz / A
2003 / Austrian Cultural Forum Marburg, / „Donna Mobile“/ SI Künstlerhaus Graz / „Stmk. Werksbund Kunstverein“/ Kulturhauptstadt Graz 2003 / A
2002 / Telecomhaus Galerie Graz / „Stmk. Werksbund Kunstverein“/ A
1999 / Künstlerhaus Graz / „Stmk. Werksbund Kunstverein“ / A
1998 / Künstlerhaus Graz / „Stmk. Werksbund Kunstverein“ / A
1996 / Creative Gallery Wien / „Stmk. Werksbund Kunstverein“ / A
