Bambinart Gallery is pleased to announce a drawing show by Edgar Honetschläger, Gabriele Sturm, Martin Walde and Midori Mitamura.

At the end of 19th century the ‘Vienna Secession’ – considered the first white cube in art – was founded by Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann and Josef Maria Olbrich. The ‘Wiener Moderne/Vienna modernism’ promoted by those artists - among others - wasn’t just nouveau and free, it remarkably effected the art practices in various cultures and its philosophies beyond the academic establishment up until our days. 2012 saw the celebration of the 150th anniversary of Gustav Klimt birth whose painting and drawing style was strongly influenced by Japanese concepts of aesthetics. Klimt and his Viennese contemporaries passed on an artistic legacy of urban culture that presents itself as an amalgam of different believes, nationalities, languages, critical thinking, political-, historical-, social-, and environmental issues. From a Viennese point of view developing various concepts reflected in drawing/art will not diminish but enhance a sensitive approach toward the world and our longing for Beauty. Vienna’s beautiful expressive style does not wear the conceptual approach on its sleeves, no, it comes about without no sweat to be felt – light and witty. In 2006 Midori Mitamura did a well-received installation at the ‘Vienna Secession’ and now she brings EdgarHonetschläger, Martin Walde and Gabriele Sturm, three internationally acclaimed artists based in Vienna, to Tokyo. In the upcoming show ‘autumn leaves fields’ at Bambin Art gallery the participating artists are paying homage to some of the masters of modernism and their obsession with drawing.