Flora Hauser
Flora Hauser holds a Diploma in Media Art and Sculpture from University of Applied Arts, Vienna and studied graphic and communication design at the Höhere Graphische Bundes-Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt in Vienna.
Hauser’s practice spans the space between writing and drawing. Her paintings and drawings suggest visual landscapes without necessarily depicting an illusionistic space. Subdued color washes spreads across her large-scale canvas with the quality of a Romantic watercolorist, but neater – upon closer examination of the surface, the washes are revealed as drawn in color pencil rather than painted. Finely sharpened pencil point is the tongue of Hauser’s coded drawing vocabulary. Her glyph-based drawn forms accompany the color washes to form topographic images. Elevations are read according to color-coding and symbol, though without a key. In this way, Hauser’s canvases hold two forms images: the illusionistic image space and the topographic vantage point.
EDUCATION
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Vienna, Austria
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts Paris-Cergy
Paris, France
Höhere Graphische Bundes-Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt
Vienna, Austria
JURY
Christian Kühn
Chus Martínez
Florian Pumhösl
Kolja Reichert
Christoph Thun-Hohenstein
FINAL PROJECT
