VADUZ.- With the exhibition Gotthard Graubner. Painting the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein presents paintings, watercolours and drawings which elucidate the artist’s understanding of his work in terms of both continuity and change. The exhibition has been conceived not as a retrospective, but rather as a condensed pres-entation of outstanding works. This selection highlights what concerned, and indeed still concerns the artist in the course of an oeuvre that covers a period of 50 years. The focal point is the picture as a physical entity, and painting as a intensely breathing organism. The exhibition highlights how Graubner translates the sense perception of physical nature into a tangible pictorial form by means of abstraction and reduction; how his painting links this sensitivity for the material texture of bodies and the wealth and specific qualities of colours with this tangible picture form; his understanding of painting