PHOTOGRAPHY
ELVIRA RAJEK
 
DETAILS
Digital photography (2/7)
40 x 60 cm
2010
 
DESCRIPTION
Death is inextricably linked to life. The topic of death has interested me since my youth due to my interest in the ancient Egypt and the Mexican way to deal with death, and as a Viennese I grew up with Mozart`s music.  
The photo was done at St. Marx Cemetery which is now a park in Vienna's 3rd district and famous as the original burial place of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
 
BIOGRAPHY OF THE ARTIST
The artist has been creative since her youth starting with artistic presents for her family and
friends, creating jewelry and designing clothes for herself. During her study stay in Lagos,
Nigeria she was co-owner of and designer for a lingerie production. But only her partnership
with a cameraman and photographer brought her to the actual art in 2003 and taught her an
enhanced vision. She then loved it to stroll through the world with her eyes open to see,
perceive, and absorb as the artist defines it. Often, it's the everyday little things like the
marbling of meat, a nail, dried coffee grounds in a cup, etc. that created images in her mind
which she later on implemented in reality. She had her first exhibition with her partner in
Vienna in 2004 followed by a few more, but soon separated herself from her partner as well as
artistically. In 2011 she created her first shoe sculptures, concentrated on art and was discovered
and promoted by an art historian who recommended her to the former Museum for Fantastic
Art in Vienna. The museum showed artists of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. The
founder of the museum at that time continued to support the artist and several shoe sculptures
were added to the permanent exhibition. This was followed by collaborations with two curators
and two Viennese galleries which showed and sold her art worldwide e.g in different
European countries and the USA. Since 2023 Elvira Rajek's art has been curated by Musa
International Art and has been shown e.g. in Rome, Barcelona, London, Seoul, Paris, etc.