{"id":566601,"date":"2026-02-04T21:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T21:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/566601\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T21:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T21:57:14","slug":"austrian-visual-artist-heimo-wallners-desesperado-opens-thursday-in-san-antonio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/566601\/","title":{"rendered":"Austrian visual artist Heimo Wallner’s \u2018desesperado\u2019 opens Thursday in San Antonio"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustrianAustrian artist Heimo Wallner\u2019s latest exhibition of drawings opens this Thursday. Credit: Courtesy Image \/ Heimo Wallner<\/p>\n

A solo exhibition of new drawings by Heimo Wallner, \u201cdesesperado,\u201d will open this Thursday at Un Grito Gallery.<\/p>\n

Born in Tamsweg, Austria, Wallner attended the Akademie der Bildenden K\u00fcnste in Vienna and now divides his time between teaching studio art in Vermont and running the artist-in-residence program hotelpupik in Scheifling, Austria. <\/p>\n

However, the artist is no stranger to the Alamo City. He spent an extended period of time at the University of Texas San Antonio as an official visiting artist, a program that culminated in a solo exhibition at UTSA Satellite Space in 2007. <\/p>\n

Wallner characterizes his work as rooted in stupidity mined from the endless font that surrounds humankind, which generates a push and pull between the banal and indispensable epiphanies. <\/p>\n

Free, 7-10 p.m., Thursday-Friday, Feb. 5-6 and by appointment, Un Grito Gallery at Blue Star Arts Complex, 1420 S. Alamo St., (210) 992-0585, instagram.com\/ungritogallery.<\/p>\n

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