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167 In his photographic works, the avant-garde artist Padhi
PADHI FRIEBERGER Frieberger created poetic pictorial spaces that connect, contextualise and
(1931–2016) convey his exuberant aesthetic concerns. Thus he included his object
Fischapark, Austria 1982 artworks or friends in his arrangements, whereby the photographs func-
Archival pigment print, printed 2016, in tion as artistic articulation and at the same time as a ref ection of their
original frame, perfect condition authentic origins. In the 1980s he staged his art objects in the Lower
Estate stamp on the reverse of frame, signed Austrian landscape in and around Fischapark, a former textile factory
and dated by the artist’s nephew Walter
Jaworski on the reverse in Weigelsdorf. In the mid-1990s, musician Oliver Ertl made himself
available as a contributor at the Alpenmilchzentrale on Vienna’s Weyringer-
29 × 29 cm (11.4 × 11.4 inch) gasse. From a series with colour pigments comes the photograph of the
€ 1.800 / € 3.200 – 3.800
latter’s hands protruding from the round opening in a concrete wall of
the building complex. T ey can be read as a sign of the artistic creative
process, as well as an independent biomorphic structure that allows for
various associations.

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