Interview (c) MoMa / YouTube, 2012
A current exhibition of Marina Abramović‘s works is currently on @ Gallery Krinzinger, Vienna.
The Werkbund Estate in Vienna
“’Light, air and sun’ and ‘modern living with a maximum of happiness’ were promised by the Werkbund Estate in Vienna in 1932. Eighty years after its opening, the Wien Museum is staging an exhibition devoted to this architectural monument.” Text (c) wieninternational.at 2012
“The Art/Brut Center Gugging near Vienna has put together an amazing AUGUST WALLA (1936-2001) retrospective of more than 400 works from all periods of his artistic life. Together with his impressing paintings and drawings the show contains not only sculptures and installations, but also photographies and documentations of land art pieces.” Out of his own confused gender identity, the historical disasters of the (post)war period and social marginalization, Walla created his own universe (which is going to ‘end’ according to him) populated by gods and sexual-politcial symbols: the swastika e.g. symbolizes the female sex, whereas communism is ‘male’. Until Oct 28, 2012. Video (c) theartVIEw on Vimeo.
Is the renowned German art exhibition documenta in Kassel censoring (other) art?
“Amidst fervent interest and speculation regarding the artist list of the upcoming 13th edition of the exhibtion, which has the art world looking for any clues possible to upset the traditionally secret document, documenta artistic director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and the catholic church have exchanged blows over a sculpture installed on the spire of Kassel’s St. Elizabeth’s Church. The work, Stephan Balkenhol’s “Man in the Tower” (2012), is a rough-hewn wooden rendering of a male figure dressed in a white shirt and grey trousers, with arms outstretched as if on a crucifix.” > text (c) ARTINFO, 2012
> website documenta 13
Occupied! is the current motto at the Wien Museum. A new exhibition explores the struggle for free spaces in the city. Between the “Happening of 100 Days“ in 1976 and the eviction of squatters from “Epizentrum Lindengasse” in 2011 Vienna has seen some turbulent times. Article (c) wieninternational.at, 2012
An art exhibition at the MUSA in Vienna tries to challenge our daily obsession
with bodily “beauty” > full text (c) wieninternational.at, 2012
“Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, most probably Austria’s most famous composer ever, is famous all over the world. Equally well-known is the fact that he often experienced financial difficulties. It would be incorrect, however, to assume that his debts were solely the result of his extravagant lifestyle. The temporary exhibition ‘Between Fear and Hope – Mozart’s rise and fall in Viennese society’ in the historic Mozarthaus in the first district shows how his career was not all a bed of roses.”
>article (c) wieninternational.at, 2012
delirium clemens 