LIGHTpainting is an avantgarde combination of painting, dance, and music. Eva uses light instead of paint, a grip pen instead of a brush, to make visuals which are projected onto the stage. Her work is created in the moment for the moment, without using any pre-produced material. LIGHTpainting highlights the connections between the many forms of sensory experience. Eva performs with outstanding musicians from differing back-grounds - classical, jazz, new music - and with renowned dancers throughout Europe and the United States. The collaborative improvisation is unique for a fine artist. She developed the concept with influence from the Dutch masters of the 17th century. Johannes Vermeer knew that with the first stroke of the brush, a painting is ready and readable in its entirety. Similarly, Eva’s spontaneous, projected brushstrokes constitute a finished work at each moment of the performance. LIGHTpainting transforms traditional understandings of fine art and takes it to an entirely new level.

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There is More Than You Can See is a series of multimedia works inspired by ecological and animal husbandry lessons.

In 2015, Eva took responsibility for maintaining a forest of over 200 acres in Carinthia, Austria (part of the Alps mountains). To take care of the area with the utmost integrity, she studied both traditional ecological knowledge by becoming a jägerin* and scientific discoveries at the forefront of modern research. Her findings informed her most recent series, There is More Than You Can See. The materiality of concrete and plastic under paint not only give the paintings a sculptural quality; they also point to the idea that we as humanity must integrate ourselves with our environment wisely instead of drawing distinct boundaries between the synthetic and the natural. As the series title suggests, the paintings’ subjects can teach the viewers something they might not have known--which could help them, too, take responsibility for their own (and shared) space in the world.

*a jägerin is a female huntress. Traditionally, land in this region of the Alps is managed by a highly trained hunter who is responsible for maintaining ecological balance and health of the animals and flora/fauna of the forest. 

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Installation projection at the Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria. 2003. Graz was named the European Culture Capital of the Year. After approving the concept, the museum couldn’t provide technical support to achieve it, so Flatscher sourced materials herself and convinced residents across the street to allow her to use their apartments for the duration. The projections continued each day of Easter week.

"My first encounter with Eva Flatscher's artistic work was long ago, but it remains fresh in my memory. How unexpected then was this experience, not only for me, but for all who were able to be present: the whirling dance of colors created by the painter in time with the music, her brush strokes matching its staccato sounds, embedded in an ever-evolving design. In these constantly changing digital images there seemed to hide a sweeping tale, which we enchanted spectators were seeking to decipher! It was a great experience, though it is now long past. But her work – her endeavor to tell a story through grand gestures of movement, of dance, of colors suffused like suns with light and life-giving gladness – has progressed further. With artistic certitude, and in a truly natural way, it has found its unique form of expression, which is described only in part by the name Lightpainting. Dance and music, movement and formal composition, the colors of paintings, often modeled on the works of great masters, generated in the brilliance of light and digitally transformed: these are the formative elements not simply of Eva Flatscher's work but of the world as a whole. All of these elements, united by the guiding hand of the artist – the "storyteller" – mirror the world, tell stories, mysteries or fairytales, show signs of oneness with our feelings, perceptions and thoughts. And in this way your compositions convey their import. At times, Eva Flatscher's productions recall the Traumpfade, the "song lines" or "dream lines" of the Australian aborigines, who by dancing and singing seek to decipher the mystery of the cosmos, of Dreamtime, in a pictorial realization of the past. So also Eva Flatscher's performances, with dancers in the role of thaumaturges, offer in their dramatic configuration and amalgamation of music, movement and densely textured compositions of color an image of our world, of our existence. To immerse oneself in them brings delight!"

Wilfried Seipel was Executive Director of the Museum of History of Art (KHM) in Vienna from 1990 to 2008, he is honorary president of ICOM, the International Council of Museums. The "El Greco" and "Bruegel" exhibitions during his tenure were among his greatest successes.