Born in 1961 in Feldbach in Styria, studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. After long-term stays in the USA and Berlin Robert Schaberl lives and works in Vienna.
The exploration of sensual perception is one of the central themes in Robert Schaberl's work. He approaches it through what he himself calls central forms, especially circles. The artist works with the finest light reflections and reflexions, applies countless gossamer layers of paint on top of each other with extreme precision, creating fascinating iridescent effects that open up new color and spatial effects for the viewer.
"[...] In his oeuvre, Robert Schaberl has cultivated an experimental set-up developed over decades with colourless pigments that reflect light at a specific frequency like a microprism. An impressionistic play with the perception of colour and light that originates in the studio as an alchemical workshop and only fully unfolds in the interaction between the work and the viewer. One could also say: art is created in the field of tension between production and reception. Schaberl's rarely entirely monochrome central forms, which exist in paintings, photographs and works on paper, expand the spectrum of an art of perception that unfolds its magic precisely in the deviation from a focal point: The colour-changing images change their appearance depending on the perspective. They overcome a supposed anachronism in the multi-layered aesthetic experience, resist the everyday overkill of information, the accelerated flood of images and the conceptual discursivisation of art, echo current fashions and new technologies. Robert Schaberl's aesthetics of the round is sensual overwhelming, training of sensibility and optical exegesis apart from retinal art." (© Angela Stief 2016)
Robert Schaberl's paintings are represented in numerous private and public collections worldwide. National and international solo exhibitions and exhibition participations, 2021 at the ALBERTINA Modern in Vienna as part of the exhibition 'Wonderland'.
Fotocredit: © Robert Schaberl
