Florian Hunger-Pegof (1945-1995) is an Austrian artist.
He belongs to the past Bauhaus by his mastering of artistic skills but his spirit and art will be one of the last artist belonging to the "Wiener Aktionismus" movement.
Like Bauhaus artists, he excels in various technics and artistic mastering skills. He is also a chemist and with a strong imagination combines the practice and the art of a Designer, Interior Architect, Photograph, Performer, Painter, Sculptor, Silversmith and Goldsmith. Designer and sculptor, he is creating wood and metal furnitures. Painter, his paintings are in a pure abstract Zen style. Color argentic photographer, he takes photos of his muses in emblematic places.
His famous photo "My Muse", with a woman sitting on a monumental telephone, a granite sculpture located in Mauthausen granite carrier in Austria, is settled in this former sinister concentration camp of Mauthausen. For Hunger Pegof, this political photo is emblematic of a forgotten past and hope for a better future. His black and white argentic poetic photos are all devoted to his muses. Silversmith and Goldsmith, Florian Hunger Pegof works gold, silver and metal, creating art objects, sculptures and jewels, often with semi-precious stones, and worn by his nude models during his "Wiener Aktionismus" Happenings.
In 1991 and 1992 his art was as well exhibited during the Art Olympiads under the high patronage of French President Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac, Mayor of Paris, since the artist belongs to the Selection of Austria for the Art Olympiads organized by Lise Cormery Gallery for the French Olympic Committee. It was following the famous 1988 Art Olympiads in Seoul with its sculpture and painting museums created for the event in order to invite and show the art of major international artists of the century.
Excerpt Post War Ecole de Paris, Lise Cormery
Read more
