Franz Josef Noflaner
∗1904, Italy
† 1989, Val Gardena, Italy
Franz Josef Noflaner (*1904 – 1989, Val Gardena) was a writer, poet and painter who lived in the Val Gardena. In the course of his lifetime, he created a dialogue between the three disciplines, interconnecting them to form a bizarre ‘worldmaking’ machine. At the centre of his symbol-charged painting is man as he reflects on the fragile system of relations that exists between his own self and nature. With regard to the focus of this year’s Biennale, compositions of surreal images acquire a timeless dimension and may be interpreted in line with his moving language. His poetic texts are like a fabric of beautiful sounds, paired with an ambivalent message that does not lie back in comfort but leaves meanings open like disquieting moments. The archaic, poetic imaginations and archetypal scenes are components pervading both his poems and his pictures. Art, according to Noflacher, is a “wishing machine” that transforms people, things, animals and plants, full of metaphors, as in a laboratory of a pre-modern, timeless world.For the 7th Biennale Gherdëina, curator Adam Budak and the Italian artist Marinella Senatore let themselves by inspired by the following line from his poetry: “Die Sonne scheint, solange die Sehnsucht weint” (The sun shines as long as desire weeps). Senatore used it, for example, for her Luminaria light sculpture, whose red neon letters illuminate the entrance to the exhibition room at the Sala Trenker. Additionally, a selection of Noflaner‘s paintings and drawings were presented in the Biennale‘s exhibition.
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