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Selected Works
EDUCATION
1989
Magister Artium, Class of Painting, Hochschule Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
AUGEN|BLICKE (FLEETING MOMENTS), BEGE Galerien Ulm, Germany
2020
MCH, Galeria Contrast, Barcelona, Spain
Martin C. Herbst- Revisted, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Das Archiv der Blicke, Kunsthaus Köflach, Austria
Friktion – Martin C. Herbst und Levente Herman, Austrian Cultural Forum Budapest
2019
Essence, Várfok Galéria, Budapest, Hungary
2018
FocusAugust, Le Royer, Montreal, Québec, Canada
Hidden Treasures, Zemack Gallery, Tel Aviv
2017
Positions, BEGE Galerien, Ulm, Germany
2015
WUNDERKAMMER, Várfok Galéria, Budapest, Hungary
Martijn van Wenen, Wanrooij Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2014
Take My Eyes, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Afterimage, Juan Ruiz Gallery, Miami, USA
2013
Der Schöne Schein; GPL contemporary, Vienna,
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Selected Works
Martin C. Herbst (Born 1965, Salzburg)
Lives and works in Vienna, Austria
EDUCATION
1989 Hochschule Mozarteum, Salzburg: magister artium, class of painting
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Positions, BEGE-Galerien, Ulm, Germany
2015 WUNDERKAMMER, Várfok Galéria, Budapest, Hungary
2015 Martijn van Wenen, Wanrooij galleri, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2014 Take My Eyes, Christopher Cutts galleri, Toronto, Canada
2014 Afterimage, Juan Ruiz Gallery, Miami, USA
2013 Der Schöne Schein; GPL contemporary, Vienna, Austria
2013 Wahre Illusion; Fischerplatzgalerie, Ulm, Deutschland
2013 Martin C. Herbst, Boloix Fine Arts, Ketchum/Idaho, USA
2012 Strange days, Jacob Karpio galleri, San José, Costa Rica
2012 Vom Sein und Schein der Welt, Várfok
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Martin C. Herbst
Born in Salzburg in 1965.
He studied painting at the Hochschule Mozarteum from 1984-1989, and later relocated to Vienna, where he resides today.
Martin C. Herbst is an Austrian painter, whose work focuses on an elaborate reevaluation of art historical themes and theories of classical portraiture and human figures.
His "subjects" are individual but at the same time portray the best work of their epochs. The traditional intent to display the distinctive likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person is combined with witty and often unexpected forms of representation. Faces appear on spheres and look like caged moonfaces. They are distorted when painted on curved panels, but look "normal" if the viewer perceives them from a certain point of view. Or they are painted very traditional, but exist in multiple versions.
His virtuosic, often monumental figurative paintings and objects appear paradoxically, at times cool, distant, mediated as well as