The first Clayintone painting in Europe
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12.02.2021
In 1991 I was involved in a project of Art in a small village of Alberndorf in Lower Austria. I had to find a solution for wall-painting on bricks of clay. It was to be a part of the ecological architecture. This was the beginning of a completely new technique by totally different way of painting. I decided to use the same material as the wall itself: raw clay. It took some months to find a new mode of working with pure clay and water to achieve this. Finally, a new form of expression was found. The clay-painting-fresco.
Before, I had learnt how to paint outside and inside walls of buildings. I had to adjust to individual expectations and conditions. The clay-bricks of Alberndorf in Lower Austria were a real challenge. No local artist had any idea how to paint a permanent painting on clay. I was invited to work on the strategy to fit this ecological project. I used this situation for a radical innovation in a very sophisticated field of mural painting. This is how my clay-fresco was born. Finally, it required a lot of persuasive power to put it into practice.
My innovation of clay painting was given some working titles in different languages: “earth-painting, loam-painting, Lehmmalerei, malowanie gliną”. But I never was lucky with this denominations. I decided to create a personal name of my painting-technique as an integral part for my art, protected by copy-right: CLAYINTONE © Wolfgang Hofer
The good soul of our project Post author By Wolfgang Hofer Post date July 17, 2020
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In 2016 we bought the house nearby us in the neighborhood and through many hours of work it could be adapted for our Gallery Colors of Earth (Galeria Barwy Ziemi). The wooden farmhouse as a historical object could be preserved and the part of the former hen-house was rebuilt for the present Muzeum Hebla, a mini-museum in the form of a cabinetmaker’s workshop.
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17.07.2020
1991 – founding of a new genre of Art in all his parts which finally I named Clayintone. Since 2011 I worked out additional branches – Maminato (Clayintone-aquarelle) and Amaminato (Clayintone-astropainting) made by natural clay. All my pictures at the exhibitions listed below were unique Clayintone-paintings.
I am obliged to all mentioned institutions for their promotion and patronage of my art:
1992 Ophtalmic clinic “Contacta”, Vienna; Kulturhaus Dworek Białoprądnicki, Krakau; Arts Center Nowa Huta, Krakow
1993 Dominican church, Krakow
1994 Foundation for History of Art, Krakow
1995 Regional association for ecological Education, City of Krakow
1998 Austrian Consulate in Krakow
2003 Parish of Spillern, Austria
2005 Built by loam (“Z gliny ulepieni”), Archdiocesan Museum Krakow
2006 Polish insect days “Insects – Waste – Earth-paintings”; Icons and Wayside-Shrines, House of Krakow, Nuremberg
2007 Icons and Wayside-Shrines, CKiW Andrychów, Poland
2010 Historical Museum and Gallery Bazar Sztuki, Sanok, Poland
2011 Center for Culture und Tourism in Wieliczka, Poland
2011 “Heilige in Erde gemalt” im Kulturhaus CKiW Andrychów
2012 “From dust to eternity”, Castle of Dębno near Tarnów
2015 “Between Stars And Earth”, Castle of Korzkiew; Derby of Fine Art, City-Museum Siemianowice Śląskie
2016 -2022 Collective exhibitions organized by the Art Foundations “Art Derby” and “Małopolskie Stowarzyszenie Twórców Kultury w Krakowie” in Krakow, Lesser Poland and Silesia