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Johann Korec |
NAVRATIL (Leo). Gugging 1946-1986, Brandstätter, Vienna, 1997.
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| During his adolescence, Johann Korec works on a farm and as a shepherd. His dream, however, is to care for animals in a circus. When he is twenty-one, he enters the hospital of Gugging and lives in the House of the Artists. There he starts drawing and develops a personal technique, somewhat reminiscent of Henry Darger's. He collects pictures from magazines, traces them, sometimes re-using the same image for one drawing. He then decides on the sex of his figures. Korec develops a truly erotic art; coupling is the central theme of his story. His work is also centered on writing. He has recently started to draw without tracing his images and gets his inspiration from his own life experiences. | ||
| We can no longer separate his writings and drawings. The texts are not an explanation of the drawings but an intricate part of the work itself. | ||
| SEE ALSO: Publications de la Collection de
l'Art Brut, fascicule 12, Gugging, Lausanne, 1983. NAVRATIL (Leo). Gugging 1946-1986, Brandstätter, Vienna, 1997. |
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