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To See With Your Own Eyes
Aurelia Meinhart
23/08/2024
After the liberation from Egypt and the making of the covenant at Mount Sinai, God calls Moses again to the top of the mountain to reveal to him the archetype of the sanctuary. In six chapters (Exodus 25-31), God describes the sanctuary, its sacred utensils, the materials and the priestly vestments. The way it is depicted resembles lengthy descriptions of landscapes. Spaces are walked through. Individual items are highlighted. Some are drawn only in their essential contours. Others are looked at in greater detail. Readers and viewers are guided to see the sanctuary with their own eyes.
In the architecture of the sanctuary, its proportions, and materials, we encounter an orderly and at the same time mysterious place where God and man, heaven and earth meet.
Dr. Simon Weyringer ; Lecturer in Biblical Studies of the Old Testament, member of the Institute of Biblical Studies
Throughout my life, tales from the Old Testament have stimulated my imagination, leading me to explore this topic artistically. I took it upon myself to build an altar based on instructions I found in the Old Testament, which turned out to be quite a challenge.
Regarding the altar itself, I found the following descriptors in Old Testament writings:
Acacia wood, violet and red purple, twined byssus, crimson, goat hair blankets, copper, gold, holy anointing oil and fragrant incense.
Based on these descriptors, I designed thirteen diptychs.
I used acacia wood, gold leaf and oil paint as materials for my work, joining two wooden panels each using metal frames to form a unit.
Aurelija Meinhart
Aurelia Meinhart – Biographie /short
1953 Born on the 28th of December in Kalchberg, West Styria/ Austria
HTBL in Graz Ortweinplatz;1972 and master class for painting Graz
Aurelia Meinhart worked as an art teacher at BG Rein until 2014 and took part in various exhibitions in Austria and abroad. She started with painting, but now she also works whit different materials in installations and media. In recent years she has worked with video art.
Exhibitions and participations:
(provincial sponsorship award)1988 Traklhaus Salzburg;Athen; Minoritengalerie Graz; 1999 Exhibition at Künstlerhaus Graz, “The Amber Room”;1996 “Art in Time” poster project by Gruppe77, Art Critics Award;Zagreb;2009 Design of altar,ambor,sessio and baptistery in St. Bartholomä Church, West Styria; Project Lichtwechsel (Light of Change)www.lichtwechsel.at
“Reaching Suomi and Preko (HR);2016 “Der Große Wagen”Installation „Dream Rights“im Kunstbad/ Graz; 2018
“Glade-physis”, Exhibition at Hödlmoser-Atelier Festung Salzburg;
2020„ Zeithain“ Biographien and Nature“Salzburg
2021 „Ginkgo“ Exhibition at Gerberhaus /Fehring; „Lucy und die Amazone“Kunstraum PLÜ23,Graz; „Entry in a Special Landscape“
„Protector“Video/KlauseDeutschlandsberg;2023 „Dry Land“ Utopia-Quo vadis sapiens K.U.L.M.