This exhibition at the Vienna MUQA “explores the phenomenon of inescapable recognizability in the media and the resulting strategies of media users to become virtually faceless.
FACELESS takes a radical look at this fairly recent phenomenon of everyday media culture and shows how it manifests in visual art, fashion, photography, advertising, and dance.”
4 July – 1 Sept >more
Picture: Lady Glittersky, 2009, C-print, 121x92cm
(c) Thorsten Brinkmann, VBK, Wien 2013 and VG Bildkunst Bonn 2012
Model houses of Austrian officer Peter Fritz at the main pavilion in the Giardini. It’s Biennale time again in the historical lagoon city. >full text & more photos
(c) wieninternational.at 2013 >alternative text (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2013
“Czech art pranksters, whose Ztohoven art collective gained international notoriety for implanting images of a fictional atomic blast on live television, faced legal action for their prank in which they were toying with the concept of identity.”
>text (c) ART OF THE PRANK, 2010
New tensions between EU pillars Germany and France fought in the cultural field? De L’Allemagne, “an exhibition of art in the Louvre has provoked fury in Germany for portraying the country as a dark and dangerous neighbour – has it ignored key movements deliberately, or is it all a matter of taste?”
photo: detail from Max Beckmann’s The Hell of Birds (c) The Louvre
>full text (c) THE IRISH TIMES, 2013
George W. Bush’s Dirty Little Secret
“In February, a hacker named Guccifer revealed to the world the hidden artistic talents of George W. Bush, releasing to The Smoking Gun a handful of photographs of oil paintings by the former president that had been taken from personal Bush family emails. The images were well-received by critics and laypeople alike, but they represented only a small portion of the budding outsider artist’s oeuvre.”
>read & see more (c) GAWKER.COM, 2013
Maybe these artworks should be exhibited at the Viennese Art Brut Center at the former mental institution of Gugging?
A Surrealist history by Derek Sayer >review (c) ART DAILY, 2013
The exhibition Georg Baselitz – Works from 1968 to 2012 is organized by the Essls in their museum in Klosterneuburg near Vienna on the occasion of the 75th birthday of the great German artist, a long-standing friend of the collector couple. Forty-four works by Baselitz from four decades will be shown until 20 May 2013 >museum website
Today Košice / Kaschau / Kassa in Slovakia becomes the first city in the country’s history to be a European Capital of Culture (along with Marseille)
>text (c) wieninternational.at 2013
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The successful exhibition Naked Men unveils male nudity: full-frontally.
delirium clemens 