Gabriele Schöne

Born 1961 in Mistelbach, lives and works in Pillersdorf since 2019.

Empty shapes stand in the centre of the images by Gabriele Schöne. These blank patches, in which the whitewashed canvas stands out from the coloured paint and patterned fabric applications, are always the pivot points and linchpins of a whole made out of different layers of images. Furthermore, the empty spaces that can also be discerned as clear shapes because of their contours – from the fruit to the jumping girl, the dancing couple to the mother and her child and larger groups of figures – achieve an ambivalent balance between presence and absence, appearing to unfurl their impact first as something invisible. The shape arises from the connections that surround it, the link between them creates a blank in the middle.