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toter Jugend-Stil: Klimt vs Falco

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , on 6 February 2018 by delclem

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“Jähren sich Todestage berühmter Persönlichkeiten, steht die Frage im Raum: Wie wandelt man auf dem schmalen Grat zwischen Würdigung & Morbidität (…)? Von einem Jubiläum zu sprechen, hinterlässt zweifelsohne bitteren Beigeschmack. Hätte Falco vergangenes Jahr am 19. Februar noch seinen 60er zelebriert, gibt sein 20. Todestag am 6. Februar wohl kaum Grund zum Feiern. Gerade dieses Datum ist für Österreich gleich doppelt tragisch: Auch Gustav Klimts Ableben jährt sich an diesem Tag – zum 100. Mal. Ein Zufall? Selbstverständlich. Aber die Tatsache, dass zwei derart prägende Künstler sich dieses Datum teilen, kurbelt die Fantasie an: Lässt sich nicht vielleicht doch die eine oder andere Gemeinsamkeit konstruieren?”

>>Text & Illu (c) WiENER ZTG, 2018

Retrospektive: Günter Brus

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , on 2 February 2018 by delclem

ludwig-hoffenreich-günter-brus--selbstbemalung-1,-kopfbemalung-dez.-1964,-ort--atelier-john-sailer,-operngasse,-1010Im kollektiven Gedächtnis ist der Künstler Günter Brus eher als “wilder Hund” eingefächert. Man mag an seine Teilnahme an der Aktion Kunst und Revolution (1968) in einem Hörsaal der Universität Wien denken, bei der die Wiener Aktionisten auch mit Exkrement hantierten. Oder an die verausgabungsvolle Performance Zerreißprobe (1970), bei der Brus zunächst Urin in eine per Rasierklinge geöffnete Wunde goss und später mutwillig ausrutschte und hinknallte, sich blutend und leidend am Boden wand. >>Volltext (c) STANDARD, 2018

Domestic

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , on 30 January 2018 by delclem

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RENATE BERTLMANN (A): from the series Top U29 (2005).
On her current exhibition in Vienna, see:
derstandard.at/2000073066949/Renate-Bertlmann-Luftige-Lustkoerper

Alternative Memorial for Hungary’s ordeal, 1944-45

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , on 19 March 2014 by delclem

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The Hungarian artist blogger LACI SZILY (sic;) has presented an alternative to the planned ‘Memorial of German Occupation, 1944/45’ in Budapest: Hitler is holding a Wiener Schnitzel in the shape of Greater Hungary in order to distract the Hungarian Puli dog which is being raped by a German shepherd… >more (in Hungarian)

“Vienna – Berlin: The Art of Two Cities”

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , on 27 February 2014 by delclem

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“Whereas the affinities in literature and music between Vienna and Berlin have been the subject of in-depth study in recent years, there is still a lot of ground to be covered in the visual arts. This is a desideratum that the Berlinische Galerie and the Vienna Belvedere have sought to overcome in a large-scale exhibition organized by both museums.” >review & photos (c) wieninternational.at 2014

Vienna, Southern Station

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , on 30 December 2013 by delclem

1483290_617509198309281_2116711391_nSüdbahnhof, the vanished train station of Vienna. Bombed down in 1945, re-erected in the 1950s and torn down again tp create the space needed for Vienna’s new Central Train Station. Image: an aquarell by F. Witt, ca 1900
(c) WIENER G’SCHICHTEN, 2013

Iconoclasm in Vienna

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , on 25 October 2013 by delclem

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This work deals with a memorial to Austrian poet and Nazi Josef Weinheber (1892-1945) which stands at the Schillerpark in Vienna’s city centre. A temporary intervention aimed at exposing its conflicted history and leading to a permanent artistic reconfiguration and contextualization of the monument.
>more (c) Eduard Freudmann, 2013

 

 

“A brush with the past”

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , on 1 October 2013 by delclem

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“Ahead of a major new exhibition of portraits from turn-of-the-century Vienna, the award-winning writer Edmund de Waal reveals his own family’s intimate links to the city.” >full text & photo album (c) THE INDEPENDENT, 2013
Ill. above: Portrait of Empress Elisabeth (1899) by Gyula Benczúr

Street Art in Vienna

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , on 10 August 2013 by delclem

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Following its traces in streets & galleries >full text (and more pics)
(c) wieninternational.at 2013

 

State Security Art

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , on 13 July 2013 by delclem

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“A German artist who beamed these words onto the wall of the U.S. embassy in Berlin says Washington’s spy methods make the former East German secret police (the Stasi) look like boy scouts. A video of OLIVER BIENKOWSKI’s artwork, a project that came about in collaboration with internet activist Kim Dotcom, is fast becoming a hit on the Internet in Germany, tapping into widespread outrage over U.S. surveillance programs revealed by fugitive ex-National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden.” (reblogged from Revolution News)