“This picture is a facial composite of W. A. Mozart, ca. 1777, generated around 1991 by the Federal German Police (BKA), from four portraits that appeared during Mozart’s lifetime. The details on how or why they did this are scarce, unfortunately. In 1777 Mozart was twenty-one years old;” he died 222 years ago. >full text (c) dangerous minds 2013
A commemoration for the co-called “Night of Broken Glass”, the Nazi Pogroms
on 9 November 1938. >text & photos (c) wieninternational.at 2013
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
Very helpful educational website. Just click on the link and select one of the languages available: German, English, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Polish, BCS, Slovene, Russian, Romanian. All texts (c) wieninternational.at 2013
“When Edith Tudor-Hart wasn’t working as a Soviet agent, she was taking lovingly realistic portraits of London’s workers and street children. Now, for the first time, a retrospective is celebrating her double life.” >full text (c) THE TELEGRAPH, 2013
Following its traces in streets & galleries >full text (and more pics)
(c) wieninternational.at 2013
A “beautiful corpse” from the Habsburg collection is on display in Vienna.
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
Austrofascism (1933 – 1938) “was not just a corporative state [Ständestaat] but a ‘despicable, unpopular, authoritarian Austrian dictatorship’. This is the conclusion reached by the retired Austrian political scientist Emmerich Tálos in his new book entitled Das austrofaschistische Herrschaftssystem. Tálos studied some 200 boxes of historical archive material returned by the Russian authorities from Moscow to Vienna in 2009.” Interview (c) WIENINTERNATIONAL.AT, 2103
“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
delirium clemens 