Josef GERA - Im Aufbruch

With the PROTIDEN body of works I develop an abstract visual language that translates microbiological and swarming 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 field arises without hierarchy. The series is conceived as an ongoing group 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 snapshots of a controlled eruption – frozen kinetic energy.
The white background does not function as emptiness, but as an active resonance space. It enhances the plastic effect of the color bodies and lends the work an almost photographic clarity.

Title: In Departure
Series: Protiden
Dating: 2026/01
Technique: Acrylic on canvas
Framing: WITHOUT frame
Representation: 60x120 cm horizontal format
Image size: 60x120 cm (canvas on stretchers)
Depth: 3.5 cm
Signature: hand-written, verso bottom
Unique piece
Provenance: Directly 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. Color, for me, is not a likeness but an event that unfolds, concentrates, and then releases in space. In the disorder of chance lies the possibility of the unexpectedly beautiful; exactly in this tension between control and letting go do my paintings arise.