Josef GERA - Im Aufbruch

With the PROTIDEN series, I have developed 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 picture plane emerges, without hierarchy. The series is conceived as an ongoing body of works and follows a reduced, deliberately chosen color palette.

Artist: Josef Gera (born 24.02.1969)

Visual artist (multidisciplinary), self-taught
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 – Visual artist

Visual artist (AT)
Lives and works in Salzburg

https://josefgera.at/

Work description:
The painting shows a series of dynamic, organically appearing color explosions on a white ground. The individual color forms appear like stills from a controlled eruption – frozen kinetic energy.
The white picture background does not function as emptiness, but as an active resonance space. It enhances the sculptural effect of the color bodies and gives the work an almost photographic clarity.

Title: In the Break
Series: Protids
Dating: 2026/01
Technique: Acrylic on canvas
Framing: WITHOUT frame
Representation: 60x120 cm landscape format
Image size: 60x120 cm (canvas on wooden stretcher)
Depth: 3.5 cm
Signature: handwritten, verso bottom
Unique piece
Provenance: Direct from the artist
Will be delivered with COA
Condition: In excellent condition
Shipping: The work is delivered WITHOUT framing and with hanging hardware. Insured shipping.

Artist Statement:
In my work, I am interested in the moment when movement becomes form. For me, color is not an image of something, but an event that unfolds in space, densifies, and then dissolves again. In the disorder of randomness lies the possibility of the unexpectedly beautiful; precisely in this tension between control and letting go, my pictures arise.