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Sculpture prize for the painter Irritation Roman Pfeffer
Roman Pfeffer has received one of the most important art awards in Austria.
Roman Pfeffer, artist and winner of the Dagmar Chobot Prize Image: Robert Feichtenschlager
Born in 1972 in Vöcklabruck and raised in Regau and Attnang-Puchheim, the artist yesterday received the Dagmar Chobot sculpture prize worth 10,000 euros. The prize, launched in 2016 by Viennese gallerist Dagmar Chobot, also takes into account experimental approaches and installations. Roman Pfeffer works on different media. Plants, sheet music, sandpaper: For pepper, all these objects have artistic potential. The material is often at the beginning of an idea, as he puts it. "I surround myself with objects and materials that interest me, with time, ideas popping up."
His approach is based on seeing things differently. "I want to initiate a thought process by changing state," he says. For Pfeffer, a typical job is made up of pictures of "cultivated indoor plants". The artist cut the leaves of a rubber tree to give them the shape of maple leaves and oak. His objects are never intentionally funny, it happens. The joke is caused by surprising elements and irritation. Humor is something fundamentally human, but that we have unlearned over time, says the father of nine-year-old twins, who lives with his family in Vienna.
In addition to his own artistic work, Pfeffer teaches at the University of Applied Arts, where he is part of the leadership team of the transdisciplinary art clbad. In teaching, he is particularly keen to defend the interests of students and promote them, he said. The awarding of the Chobot Award is a highlight in the career of a successful artist for several years. Pfeffer, who redesigned the altar of the parish church of Goldwörth in 2014, is active internationally. Two exhibitions in Croatia and one in Belgium will follow an exhibition that can be seen at the Viennese gallery "Raum mit Licht" until tomorrow.
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