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
“Emaciated bodies, skeletons, phantom-like apparitions and post-apocalyptic landscapes – all of these are motifs that the Polish artist Zdzisław Beksiński (1929-2005) captured on canvas. All of these paintings have something ephemeral, other-worldly, something difficult to capture. Even if you take a closer look it is difficult to get a clear idea of what you are seeing.” Exhibition to be seen at the Phantastenmuseum in Vienna until 22 June >review & photos
(c) WIENINTERNATIONAL.AT 2013
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
“Bill Glucroft is not an expert on the Torah, Israeli politics or the Holocaust. But on Thursday afternoon he fielded questions on each of those subjects from visitors to the Jewish Museum here in the German capital as part of a new exhibition.
To critics of the show, called “The Whole Truth” and intended to demystify Jewish life for a curious but largely uninformed German public, it was neither the questions nor the answers that were controversial, but where Mr. Glucroft sat: in a glass box, like just another exhibit.”>full text & photo (c) NYT, 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
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The successful exhibition Naked Men unveils male nudity: full-frontally.
“May 2013 brings the 200th anniversary of the birth of Richard Wagner, the German composer who has always been popular and controversial in equal measure. The Austrian National Library (ÖNB) is already holding an exhibition dedicated to the ambivalent relationship between the German composer and the Viennese public.” >full text (c) wieninternational.at 2012
“The Architekturzentrum Wien (AzW) takes a look in its current exhibition at the architecture of the non-Russian Soviet republics between the late 1950s and the end of the USSR. The stories about Soviet modernism related by researchers and eye witnesses are practically unknown. ‘We dispell once and for all the myth that the architecture in the former Soviet Union was completely different from the West,’ says AzW director Dietmar Steiner at the presentation of the new exhibition. The elaborate research and exhibition project takes a close look at the architecture of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.” >Text & photos (c) wieninternational.at 2012
The WELLCOME’s “major winter exhibition showcases some 300 works from a unique collection devoted to the iconography of death and our complex and contradictory attitudes towards it. Assembled by Richard Harris, a former antique print dealer based in Chicago, the collection is spectacularly diverse, including art works, historical artefacts, scientific specimens and ephemera from across the world. Rare prints by Rembrandt, Dürer and Continue reading
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