About

The Austrian artist began his education as a fashion designer in Vienna, went thereafter to Italy, where he attended Accademia Italiana Moda in Florence. Some years later he continued his art studies in New York and Germany. The wide range of perceptions, coupled with experiences in foreign cultures enriched and expanded his vision of art, that shapes his personal and distinctive style.

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Herwig Maria Stark has a habit of pointing out the trigger points of our western society. With a cynical brushstroke, he captures the indifferent helplessness that constant overload and draining emptiness leave in people.

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The constant pursuit of “THE way of life” comes with a prize and leaves the modern social being alone with their inner conflicts and outer decadence. Restless souls in a world of illusions: strong but fragile, demanding but vulgar, smart but desperate, fun-loving but burned out, ambitious but lonely.

 

His works manifest the chronic identity crisis of a white, capitalist society, stressed by aimlessness and lack of imagination. The immortal heroes of bourgeois worlds are always present: our role models, decals, clichés, pin-ups, all dusty, battered, strained—small visions that shine in new splendor.