Padhi Frieberger (1931-2016), self-proclaimed outsider of the Austrian art scene and one-person movement, found in photography an ideal medium for his multiform practice that united art and life. With more than 100 photographic works from the OstLicht Collection - supplemented by selected Mail-Art - WestLicht presents the most comprehensive presentation to date of this so significant part of his oeuvre.

Almost without exception, Frieberger's photographs are meticulously arranged by the artist; their sometimes seemingly spontaneous aesthetics are subject to a clear direction. In terms of motifs, the spectrum ranges from symbolically charged stagings to portraits of his colleagues - including Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Oswald Wiener or André Heller - to photographic re-enactments of his own object art. Frieberger's photographic works already met with a great response among his contemporaries: their singular visual language was appreciated by grand theorist Peter Weibel as well as by Austria's most important representative of Life-photography, Franz Hubmann.

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