Josef Gera - PROTIDENSCHWARM IV

With the series PROTIDENSCHWARM, I develop an abstract visual language that translates microbiological and swarm-like structures into controlled gestural systems. The works combine impulsive color interventions with clear formal organization. Despite a dynamic surface, a closed, all-over structured image plane emerges without hierarchy. The series is conceived as an ongoing body of work and follows a reduced, deliberately chosen color palette.

Artist: Josef Gera (born 24.02.1969)

Fine Artist (Multidisciplinary), autodidact
Born in Wels (AT), nationality: Austrian
1975 – 1984 – School education (AT)
1984 – 1987 – Apprenticeship (AT)
1988 – 2013 – Professional career (CH, AT)
2013 – 2023 – Entrepreneur (AT)
2023 – Fine Artist

Fine Artist (AT)
Lives and works in Salzburg

https://josefgera.at/

Title: Protidenschwarm IV
Dating: 2026/01
Technique: Acrylic on canvas
Framing: Shadow-gap frame with 12mm sight edge; satin-matt white lacquer; hand-finished and lacquered.
Representation: 100x100 cm
Artwork size: 105x105 cm
Depth: 3.5 cm
Signature: handwritten, verso bottom
Unique work
Provenance: Directly from the artist
Delivered with COA
Condition: In excellent condition
Shipping: The work is delivered framed and ready to hang. Insured shipping (Europe excluding islands).

Artist Statement:
In my work I am interested in the moment when movement becomes form. Color, for me, is not a representation but an event that unfolds in space, concentrates, and then dissolves again. In the disorder of chance lies the possibility of the unexpectedly beautiful; precisely in this tension between control and letting go, my paintings arise.