Diego Marcon a Vienna

 La Kunsthalle di Vienna ospita presso il Quartiere dei musei la prima mostra austriaca di Diego Marcon dal titolo "La Gola", visibile fino al 2 febbraio 2025

Le opere di Diego Marcon utilizzano vari vocaboli cinematografici e spaziano tra i generi, dal musical al melodramma, dall'horror alla commedia slapstick. La Gola (2024) è strutturato attraverso una serie di lettere tra due protagonisti, Gianni e Rosanna, ciascuno immerso nella propria storia. Il film si muove tra il poetico e l'orrendo mentre Gianni descrive le singole portate di un banchetto squisito mentre Rosanna descrive il progressivo peggioramento della salute di sua madre.

Solaris di Anselm Kiefer all'Opera di Vienna

Anche quest'anno il teatro dell'Opera di Vienna ha coinvolto un artista per far realizzare il sipario, quest'anno è  Anselm Kiefer.

Si tratta del 26° progetto »Safety Curtain« evento concepito da museum in progress in collaborazione con l'Opera di Stato di Vienna, che dal 1998.

L'opera di Kiefer dal titolo »Solaris« si riferisce all'omonimo romanzo di fantascienza dello scrittore polacco Stanisław Lem del 1961, che racconta di un lontano pianeta alieno e dell'entità planetaria che lo abita.

Il lavoro di Kiefer  può essere visto dal pubblico fino alla fine di giugno 2024 prima dell'inizio delle rappresentazioni, durante gli intervalli e alla fine delle rappresentazioni. 

Libelle, arriva un nuovo spazio al MQ

E' stata completata da poco una nuova area al MuseumsQuartier, si tratta di una spettacolare terrazza panoramica sul tetto del Museo Leopold che sarà inaugurata il prossimo 25 agosto 2020.

La nuova terrazza panoramica realizzata nel MuseumsQuartier (MQ) offre una delle più belle viste sul centro storico di Vienna. Disegnata da Laurids Ortner con la forma di una libellula, è un gioiello architettonico. L’artista austriaca Eva Schlegel ha decorato la facciata vetrata, che Brigitte Kowanz ha completato con installazioni luminose di forma circolare.

L’ingresso alla MQ Libelle è gratuito.

 Come lo stesso MQ, anche questo spazio deve essere un luogo aperto a tutti. C’è anche un piccolo chiosco per rifocillarsi. 

Dopo l’inaugurazione ufficiale del 25 agosto, sono previste numerose manifestazioni per il pubblico: con l’installazione luminosa e sonora “Am Anfang war der Schatten” (All’inizio era l’ombra) di Alex Kasses, l’opera artistica prosegue sulla facciata e sul tetto del Museo Leopold. 

Un altro lavoro è presentato da Alex Kasses nell’ Art Box MQ con l’installazione interattiva “Libelle flirr” a forma di libellula.

Erwin Wurm nel Duomo di Santo Stefano a Vienna

Si conclude l'11 Aprile, Venerdì Santo, l'intervento che l'artista Erwin Wurm ha realizzato nel Duomo di Santo Stefano a Vienna, per il progetto " Fastentuch" curato da Toni Faber, che da diversi anni vede una serie di interventi contemporanei nella storica chiesa della capitale austriaca. 

Wes Anderson al Kunsthistoriches Museum di Vienna

Il noto regista Wes Anderson con la collaborazione di Juman Malouf da organizzando una mostra per il KunsthistorichesMuseum di Vienna dal titolo “The Spitzmaus Mummy in a Coffin and Other Treasures from the Kunsthistorisches Museum”.
 
Il progetto sarà più un evento enfatico che un vero progetto museale, in cui le opere creeranno suggestioni ambientali nell'enfatico stile del noto regista americano. 
 

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Spitzmaus Mummy in a Coffin and Other Treasures - Wes Anderson and Juman Malouf
Continuing the exhibition series that began with Ed Ruscha (2012) and Edmund de Waal (2016), the Kunsthistorisches Museum has invited the acclaimed American filmmaker Wes Anderson and his partner Juman Malouf, a celebrated author and costume designer, to curate a very special exhibition at the museum. The invitation was a simple but daunting one: to comb through more than four million objects, both on public display and tucked away in the museum’s labyrinthine storage rooms, and to select their favourites.

The exhibition will include objects from all fourteen collections of the museum: Old Master Paintings, Egyptian Antiquities, Greek and Roman Antiquities, the Kunstkammer, the Imperial Treasury, the Coin Cabinet, the Imperial Armoury, the Imperial Carriage Museum, the Collection of Historical Musical Instruments, the Weltmuseum, the Theater Museum, the Ephesos Museum, the Library and Schloss Ambras in Innsbruck. Objects from the Museum of Natural History, Vienna, will also be included. It is the first exhibition that Wes Anderson and Juman Malouf have curated, and will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue.

viennacontemporary

Quest'anno l'evento Vienna Art Fair con le relative giornate ricche di eventi artistici sarà dal  21 al 24 Settembre. 

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More than 110 galleries and institutions from 27 countries will present the works of over 500 artists, and a wide range of additional information on the contemporary art scene, at the Viennese Marx Halle from 21 to 24 September. In 2017, viennacontemporary again offers an extensive program with solo exhibitions of young and established artists in the special programs ZONE1 and Solo & Sculpture, a comprehensive retrospective of the development of the Hungarian art scene in the special presentation Focus: Hungary, and fascinating insights into the shows of selected Finish, Danish and Swedish galleries in Nordic Highlights. Cinema will again present movies and videos by Austrian and international artists on the subject of my own little happiness.  Art institutions in conversation: the Talks program of viennacontemporary Talks: Borderline offers a range of public talks in which leading representatives of the international art scene share their ideas and insights. Curated by Kate Sutton, this year’s theme, Borderline, focuses on the comprehensive changes that European cultural institutions face on a political, social, and cultural level as seen from the perspectives of artists, art historians, international collectors, museum directors, dealers, critics, and curators. This series of conversations, panel discussions and presentations will look at people and projects seizing on the sudden structural flexibility and working to push the borders of institutions from within: from collectors experimenting with different formats for patronage, to galleries testing out new models for commercial collaboration, to artists, curators, and critics weighing the moral and ethical implications of activism and critique within the larger infrastructure of the globalized art world. In addition to Talks: Borderline, a number of independent talks are held during the fair. The Talks takes place from Thursday, 21 September till Sunday, 24 September 2017 in the Talks Area.  Tours: Guided tours at viennacontemporary  For 2017, viennacontemporary has further developed the tours program and now offers guided tours on special subjects. This way, visitors can get an in-depth knowledge about what is on offer at the art fair. Three comprehensively organized tours – Focus on Central and Eastern Europe, Upcoming Artists, and Discoveries and Contemporary Classics – show the broad range of the galleries present at viennacontemporary and provide the chance to explore the focus programs in more detail. The tours take about one hour each and start at the Meeting Point.  Family 2017 With the Family program, viennacontemporary offers a playful approach to contemporary art for children from 3 to 12 years of age. In 2017, viennacontemporary is collaborating with Künstlerhaus, which will offer its own special educational program for children and their families: Experience Künstlerhaus – Enabling the encounter with artists and conveying the diversity of the artistic production processes are the main objectives of Künstlerhaus. Their learning programs are realised in close collaboration with the artists of the Künstlerhaus Association and give the participants the unique opportunity to experience the creative world of art and culture first-hand. The international language of art acts as a medium to transfer skills and values, open new perspectives and enable social networks.

viennacontemporary treats its visitors to culinary delights Also this year, viennacontemporary is offering a high end experience for all – not only in terms of art, talks and tours – but also with an impressive gastronomic offer, scoring with the best names of the Viennese restaurant scene. Indulge in culinary highlights by MOTTO, IKI Restaurant and Zum Schwarzen Kameel, taking you on a sensory journey from lovely urban delights, over Japanese Cuisine with a modern twist, onto unique creations illustrating the Viennese “Savoir-Vivre”. viennacontemporary offers its guests maximum customer satisfaction. Thanks to the longstanding partner JP Immobilien, the art fair can offer its customers again a most pleasant stay at the VIP-events. Again, the VIP-lounge was designed by steininger.designers. With the longstanding partners illy and Vöslauer, more top-brands are present at the fair. Erste Group again partner of  viennacontemporary  “We see the partnership with viennacontemporary as an interesting complement to our cultural engagement in the countries of Eastern and Southeastern Europe. As one of the leading financial service providers in the CEE region, it is our responsibility to support civil society and cultural development in the region. viennacontemporary is a fitting platform for these aspirations,” explains Peter Bosek, Retail Banking board member, the Erste Group's decision to be a partner of viennacontemporary. viennacontemporary fair week – collateral events no to miss The importance of vienacontemporary for the Viennese art scene is underlined by the multifaceted events during the fair offering a broader view on the contemporary art scene. The events range from gallery events like curated by_vienna 2017 to Parallel Vienna and cross-disciplinary events linking art with science and tech, like the first VC CultTech Hackathon co-organized by PIONEERS and the second part of the series “Art & Science – Bridging Two Cultures” in cooperation with IMBA.

Jasper Johns al Belvedere di Vienna

E' in corso al Belvedere di Vienna una bella mostra su Jasper Johns, un mix fra lavori storici e opere recenti, da non perdere, fino al 26/04/2015

Viennafair

Dal 2 al 5 Ottobre si svolgerà il ricchissimo programma di Viennafair che in questi ultimi anni è diventato un punto di riferimento per l'arte contemporanea europea, soprattutto con un attento sguardo all'est. 

La rassegna si presenta ricca di appuntamenti, dagli eventi performativi alle conferenze, con progetti ed esposizioni particolari e ricercati. 

Press release 

INSPIRATION AND PARTICIPATION

Today more than ever, Vienna is a center of social and cultural exchange. As a historical bridge between the Western hemisphere and the Eastern and Southeastern regions of Europe, Vienna is a place of cultural mediation. Cultural scenes of the West and especially in the European Union have come to value Vienna as an inspiring cultural capital in Central Europe.

VIENNAFAIR The New Contemporary has played a vital role in firmly anchoring Austrian galleries and the city of Vienna in the international art market by stimulating exchange between different art scenes and attracting more and more art collectors.

The almost comprehensive participation of the Austrian gallery scene in VIENNAFAIR The New Contemporary is a clear reflection of this international scope. The list ranges from the editions specialist Artelier Contemporary (Graz) to renowned Viennese galleries such as Kerstin Engholm, Ernst Hilger, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Christine König Galerie, Galerie Krinzinger, Galerie Knoll, Meyer Kainer, and Galerie nächst St. Stephan – Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, and reaches west to Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art (Salzburg/Vienna), Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska (Salzburg), and Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman (Innsbruck/Vienna). Younger generations are also represented with Viktor Bucher, Andreas Huber, Emanuel Layr, and Michaela Stock.

Among the international galleries Germany once again tops the ranks with the most participants, including Berlin-based galleries AANDO FINE ART, Crone, Volker Diehl, KOW, Michael Schultz, and ŻAK | BRANICKA as well as Andreas Binder and MaxWeberSixFriedrich from Munich. Carbon12 from the United Arab Emirates, The Agency (Great Britain), Taik Persons (Finland), Galerie Geukens & De Vil and Guy Pieters Gallery (Belgium), Flatland Gallery from the Netherlands, Shirin Gallery (Iran) & Mark Hachem Gallery (France/Lebanon), Steve Turner (USA), and H.A.N. from South Korea are other international participants.

The majority of the Eastern European participants comes from Romania, the focus country of the OMV sponsored project DIALOG: NEW ENERGIES. Russian galleries include, among others, Regina Gallery, Gallery Marina Gisich, and Triumph Gallery. Hungary is represented with six galleries, among them Kisterem, acb Galeria, and Ani Molnár. Coming from Poland are Czułość, last year’s winner of the Emerging Gallery Prize from Vienna Chamber of Commerce, the longstanding participant lokal_30, and the young Monopol Gallery. Drdova Gallery and SVIT (Czech Republic), Temnikova & Kasela (Estonia), Alma from Latvia, Vartai from Lithuania, and Galerija Skuc (Slovenia) round out the list of Eastern European galleries.

Reliable partners of the Eastern and Southeastern European focus 

The focus on Eastern and Southeastern Europe has been supported for ten years by Erste Bank as the main sponsor in the framework of the SponsoringVALUE program. Erste Bank defines sponsoring as the voluntary advancement and support of institutions, initiatives, and projects in all realms of culture, society, and education. The SponsoringVALUE program reflects the engagement and social responsibility of the company and its willingness to invest in values that it believes in. In Erste Bank’s eyes, sponsoring always involves the preservation of values.

Their support directly benefits galleries from Central and Southeastern Europe by facilitating their participation in the fair. Through this commitment Erste Bank, part of the Erste Group of companies, which are active in the CEE region, promotes the development of the art scenes in Central and Southeastern European countries and thereby makes a decisive contribution to the thematic focus of VIENNAFAIR The New Contemporary.

Austrian and international cultural institutions at VIENNAFAIR The New Contemporary

This year Austrian and international cultural institutions will once again present their programs at VIENNAFAIR The New Contemporary. Austria: : ]a[ academy of fine arts Vienna, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Blockfrei – Independent Art From Serbia (Vienna), Grazer Kunstverein, Kunsthalle Wien, Kontakt. Art Collect, (Vienna), mumok Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, and Red Carpet Art Award (Vienna). Germany: Kunstmeile Hamburg. Russia: Jewish Museum And Tolerance Center (Moscow), National Centre for Contemporary Arts (Moscow), and Voronezh Center For Contemporary Art (Voronezh).

“International exchange between the galleries but also interaction with the artists and art institutions in Vienna are among our key intents. I am very pleased that we can present an extensive accompanying program and a focused selection of national and international galleries on the occasion of the 10-year jubilee of VIENNAFAIR The New Contemporary,” remarks Christina Steinbrecher-Pfandt, artistic director of VIENNAFAIR The New Contemporary, on the 2014 edition of the international art fair.

Special exhibitions with young international art and art institutions from Austria and Eastern Europe

OMV Special Project: DIALOG: NEW ENERGIES

Already since 2011 OMV has supported special presentations at VIENNAFAIR The New Contemporary. In the context of the OMV Special Project DIALOG: NEW ENERGIES this year the spotlight is placed on more than 30 exciting artistic positions in contemporary art from Romania presented by five galleries – Anaid Art Gallery, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Jecza Gallery, Galeria Plan B, und Zorzini Gallery – and two non-profit spaces: ATELIER 030202 and ALERT studio.

Romanian contemporary art is considered a special phenomenon and has attracted great attention from the public in the last years. The renowned art expert Andreiana Mihail will curate DIALOG: NEW ENERGIES. Romania’s cultural-historic development in the last 50 years forms the heart of the presentation. For the first time a curatorial concept will be realized, which elucidates Romania’s most important contemporary art communities in an enlightening chronicle. The project includes classical positions of artists, who are considered as emerging due to the lack of exhibition venues during Communism, and young artists who tell their own personal stories beyond sociopolitical perspectives. The aim of DIALOG: NEW ENERGIES is to present the two, perhaps most significant existential attitudes in recent Romanian history – adapting and assuming – in a balanced relationship between a clear curatorial line and a commercial framework.

OMV would like to contribute to cultural dialogue in the field of contemporary fine arts with DIALOG: NEW ENERGIES. In addition to Austria and Turkey, Romania counts among the integrated international oil and gas company’s core markets. For ten years OMV has been the majority shareholder of OMV Petrom, the largest oil and gas producer in South Eastern Europe with headquarters in Bucharest.

ZONE1 showcases exciting solo presentations

This October ZONE1 again offers a unique opportunity to discover the work of emerging artists. The Austrian Federal Chancellery again supports participating artists from Austria in this framework. On display: Asgar/Gabriel (Galerie Ernst Hilger / Hilger NEXT, Vienna), Alfredo Barsuglia (Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna), Cäcilia Brown (Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna), Julia Haller (Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna), Benjamin Hirte (Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna), Markus Hofer (Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art Salzburg, Vienna), Claudia Larcher (Galerie Lisi Hämmerle, Bregenz), Tina Lechner (Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna), Robert Muntean (Charim Galerie, Vienna), Misha Stroj (Kerstin Engholm Gallery, Vienna), Lukas Troberg (Galerie Michaela Stock, Vienna), and each for one day Zenita Komad, Rosmarie Lukasser, Bernd Oppl, Linus Riepler, and Anja Ronacher (Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna).

VIENNA Focus

With the special exhibition VIENNA Focus VIENNAFAIR The New Contemporary augments its review of Southeastern Europe with a presentation of art institutions and artistic positions from Azerbaijan. Acting as a partner in this initiative is the YARAT Foundation, founded in 2011 by Aida Mahmudova, an organization that plays a leading role in promoting an understanding of contemporary art in Azerbaijan. To this end YARAT stimulates a dialogue between local and international networks as well as art institutions, galleries, and museums.

VIENNA Talks – the platform for art collectors

This year VIENNAFAIR The New Contemporary will dedicate special attention to young art collectors. Already in a number of international meetings in the run-up to the fair first networks have been established, which will be presented at “Young Collectors Talk”. With this initiative VIENNAFAIR The New Contemporary opens up new paths for the participating galleries to a young and enthusiastic community of collectors.

Following the great success in 2013, this year the collectors’ forum “20 four 7 – Collecting the New Contemporary” will again provide insights into the collection strategies and passions of major international art collectors. Parallel to VIENNAFAIR The New Contemporary, there is also a daily discussion program that expands upon the themes of the special presentations and presents prospects on international developments in the art world. Art enthusiasts can deepen their knowledge about contemporary art movements and learn more about new artistic practices and positions.

VIENNAFAIR The New Contemporary offers a network for curators

In the effort to strengthen relations with the Viennese gallery scene, departure – The Creative Agency of the City of Vienna presents the project “curated by_vienna 2014” at their own booth at VIENNAFAIR The New Contemporary. Furthermore, the art fair stimulates interaction between galleries and international curators with the newly introduced section REFLECTIONS. Galleries are invited to develop special presentations together with curators and to showcase these – also at special conditions – at VIENNAFAIR The New Contemporary.

Three prizes this year for the best booth design! 

For the ninth time Vienna Chamber of Commerce supports the art and gallery scene in Vienna through its cooperation with VIENNAFAIR The New Contemporary. The new president of Vienna Chamber of Commerce DI Walter Ruck has decided to continue the already well-positioned Emerging and Established Gallery Prize for young and established galleries – each endowed with 5000 EUR prize money. In 2014 the prize will solely be awarded to Viennese galleries with the aim of honoring the performance of local galleries, who are member operations of Vienna Chamber of Commerce. Additionally, an International Gallery Prize will be presented to the amount of 5000 EUR, which is open to both Austrian galleries and galleries from other participating countries.

VIENNAFAIR The New Contemporary – active participation for all those interested in art

Besides the programs for representatives from the art industry, artists, and art collectors, VIENNAFAIR The New Contemporary presents itself as an art fair that aims for an accessible and stimulating approach to contemporary art.

An intergenerational dialogue about contemporary art will take place in the framework of VIENNA Gold. Parallel to the solo presentations in ZONE1, different generations – young Austrian artists and seniors – will meet at VIENNA Gold for discussions and exchange about their views on contemporary art. Guided tours with the artists are offered daily (October 2, 3, 4, and 5 at 2:00 pm).

This year VIENNA Studio again offers students the opportunity to explore the fair in guided tours – free entrance every day from 3:00 pm on!

VIENNAFAIR The New Contemporary offers art education for art enthusiasts from all age groups. In the framework of VIENNA Family, adults and children, two years old and above, have the opportunity to discover their creativity and to try out different painting techniques and tools to put color, form, and movement to paper in an open painting studio (on the weekend October 4 & 5, from 11:00 am – 6:00 pm at the VIENNA Family booth). Join in at any time!

Angoli nascosti del Museo di Storia Naturale di Vienna

Il progetto fotografico di Klaus Pichler al Museo di Storia Naturale di Vienne, sulle sezioni non accessibili al pubblico è molto divertente ed ironico.

Eccovi alcuni scatti che potete approfondire al sito di Klaus Pichler 

Fondazione Generali festeggia i primi 25 anni

la Fondazione Generali, quest’anno celebra il suo venticinquesimo anniversario, che attesta la vitalità di questa nota istituzione austriaca. Per la celebrazione si è rifatto il sito, rinnovata la mediateca, realizzato un’analisi degli eventi passati con un programma documentativo e ridiscusso, con una serie di incontri che durerà tutto l’anno, il presente artistico. Presso i suoi spazi è in corso fino al 17 Agosto una mostra sul ruolo di una collezione realizzata da tre importanti curatori; Guillaume Desanges, Helmut Draxler, e Gertrud Sandqvist.

The What If?... Scenario (after LG)

Un nuovo ed interessante progetto sostenuto da TBA21 il nuovo intervento di Cerith Wyn Evans per i dieci anni della fondazione nella sede di Augarten a Vienna.

In The What If?... Scenario (after LG), Wyn Evans literally sets the stage for a multitude of potentialities, contingencies, and uncertainties about given conditions and structures of what we see and what we know and how we come to know without ever solidifying his position into a positivist affirmation but rather remaining suspended in "weak connections". His luminous works, collected by TBA21 over 10 years and here shown together for the first time, unfold a spider web of artistic, literary, and referential signifiers, waiting to be glimpsed and grasped by a viewer who cannot but become an active performer in a play of multiple meanings and speculations. Wyn Evans’s artistic strategy interrupts our habitual access to the world of objects and meanings by disrupting our associative and (re-)cognitive patterns, locating gaps, hinting at subliminal associations, anecdotal slippages, contingencies, and errors in translation. 

Cerith Wyn Evans, however, uses almost exclusively the "already written", stages it as event, "queers it", displaces it and makes it truly contingent. Working mostly with film, light, communication technologies such as Morse code, literature, and quotations, he complicates the materiality and structural aspects of coded communication and text at the threshold of installation. Exploring and exploiting the limits of vision, the reticence of the retina, and structural cinematic experiences, he plays with the viewers’ psychophysical condition, approaching his or her sensorium in multiple audiovisual languages that are waiting to be translated, decoded, and interpreted within an open horizon of meanings without ever fully losing control of the frame of interpretations. 

In the tradition of TBA21’s first three shows at the Augarten, which operated in essentially monographic yet specifically dialogical form and understood as artistic encounters, the show presents the second iteration of Cerith Wyn Evans’s collaboration with the German artist Florian Hecker, 

No night No day (2009), first shown at the Teatro Goldoni on the occasion of the 53rd Venice Biennale. The work, a junction of two independently produced parts, can be seen as a materialization of the "third mind" as established by William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin: a third space that is created through the encounter between two minds and that results in an unforeseeable and not simply additive but rather potentiated realm, an extrapolation of the two voices. No night No day will be presented for the first time in an installation version, adapted to the spatial configuration of the Augarten. 

TBA21 began collecting Wyn Evans’s work very early in the foundation’s history, resulting in a unique assembly of the artist’s oeuvre and as such an array of pointers to questions and propositions that can be posed and poised together at TBA21–Augarten. Additionally a newly commissioned large-scale abstract neon work will take its departure from representations of the collisions of high energetic particle beams in a particle accelerator superimposed with the chemical formula for LSD as discovered by Albert Hofmann. Experience, vision, and (speculative) perception introduced into notions of science, heuristics and faith, communication and illustration render an abstract geometrical figure essential for the formation and theoretization of a universal sub-atomic particle.

TBA21–Augarten

DURATION: July 5 - November 3, 2013

OPENING: Thursday, July 4, 2013, 7 pm 

Curated by Daniela Zyman

OPENING HOURS: 

Wednesday and Thursday 12—5 pm

Friday to Sunday 12—7 pm  

Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays

Opera in fotografia di Cerith Wyn Evans "Astrophotography-Stages of photographic development“ by Siegfried Marx (1987), 2007
  Chandelier (Luce Italia), flat screen monitor, computer with morse code unit and text by R. Bundell and W. J. Robert and S.N. Tritton - Photo: Jens Ziehe / TBA21, 2013  Installation view: Cerith Wyn Evans "The What If?… Scenario (after LG)", TBA21–Augarten

Se è maschile, è scandalo …

Molto scalpore sta suscitando la mostra “nackte männer” che si sta svolgendo al Leopold Museum di Vienna. 

Già i manifesti erano stati censurati, perché tre figure maschili mostravano le loro parti più intime, ora la stessa mostra è stata criticata da diverse organizzazioni. 

Si tratta effettivamente di una rara mostra su questo particolare tema, che se declinato al femminile pare non interessare nessuno ma se riguarda la sfera maschile crea subito disagio. Ma nell’era delle parità perché non vedere anche la figura maschile con lo stesso spirito femminista. 

Tanto più che la mostra propone diverse opere tra cui “l'Autoritratto con tavolozza” di Richard Gerstl, una serie di serigrafie di Andy Wharol della serie “Querelle”, la versione maschile delle bagnanti di Cézanne. Sicuramente lavori di buona fattura con una tenuta tematica di rilievo e un allestimento molto storico. 

Ironicamente si può pensare che forse il confronto produce molto disagio nel pubblico maschile che si sente sicuramente non altezza dei modelli proposti per cui giustamente si eleva a critica, ma non è forse stato così per le donne, da millenni?

Una settimana artisticamente austriaca - Prossimamente a Vienna

Volete fuggire dalla solita routine? 

Beh vi propongo di organizzare una settimana a Vienna, dal 19 al 25 Novembre. Vi immergerete in una serie di magnifici eventi che sotto il titolo "Ricordi prevedibili", ideati da Dorotheum e Cluster Vienna, unisce tutti i musei in un progetto comune di eventi e mostre, visti come se fossero degli utile serbatoi di memoria e conoscenza, aperto a tutti. 

La Culture della Memoria, è essenziali per rafforzare l'identità e dare un senso al futuro dei propri modelli di vita e della stessa società. Essi servono come punti di riferimento per l'arte contemporanea. Come fucine l'arte moderna mette in luce questi aspetti, in modo sorprendente, dall'avanguardia fino alla contemporanea elaborazione digitale. 

Contemporaneamente si svolgerà anche un settimana delle gallerie viennesi che nei giorni dal Venerdì 23 Novembre a Domenica 25 Novembre 2012, realizzeranno delle particolari proproste con noti curatori e artisti internazionali. 

Sabato 24 Novembre 2012, dalle 12 alle 17 del pomeriggio, ben 70 artisti aprono i loro studi al pubblico per la Giornata degli Studi Aperti. Questo sarà un modo unico di vedere un'aspetto quasi sempre misterioso e intimo, il luogo del creare, lo spazio dove l'artista da vita alle sue opere. Per l'occasione saranno realizzate visite guidate con noti critici dell'arte. 

Elenco partecipanti: 

PARTICIPATING ART INSTITUTIONS 

MEMBERS OF ART CLUSTER VIENNA 21er Haus + Academy of Fine Arts Vienna + Albertina + Architekturzentrum Wien + BAWAG Contemporary + Belvedere + departure – The Creative Agency of the City of Vienna + DOROTHEUM + Essl Museum + Generali Foundation Wien + Jewish Museum Vienna + KÖR Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Wien + KUNSTHALLE wien + KUNST HAUS WIEN + Kunsthistorisches Museum + Künstlerhaus k/haus + Leopold Museum + MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art + mumok museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien + MUSA + MuseumsQuartier Wien + Austrian Film Museum + Secession + Sigmund Freud Museum + Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary + University of Applied Arts Vienna + Verband Österreichischer Galerien Moderner Kunst + Wien Museum. 

SPECIAL PROJECTS 

Bernhard Cella / Salon für Kunstbuch + EIKON – International Magazine for Photography and Media Art + eSel / MULTImART + eyes on. Month of Photography in Vienna + Marcello Farabegoli / Hana Usui + FOTO-RAUM + Galerie Lisi Hämmerle + k48 – offensive for contemporary perception + Galerie Krinzinger + Kro Art Contemporary + Friedrichshof Collection City Space + Lenikus Collection + Sammlung VERBUND + Lust Gallery + Kunstraum Niederösterreich + Galerie Michaela Stock & next door + Nitsch Foundation + Augarten Parcelain Museum at the Augarten Porcelain Manufactury + Galerie Lisa Ruyter + Gerald Straub + Permanent Mission of Hungary in Vienna + das weisse haus + white8 Gallery.

Aste e fiere per tutte le tasche

  

In questi giorni sono state fissate le date delle vendite di arte moderna e contemporanea che Christie’s e Sotheby’s fanno a Londra, saranno l’11 e il 12 Ottobre, proprio nei giorni di apertura di Frieze e Frieze Master. Come sempre verranno presentante le opere  anche in un breve tour italiano che toccherà Roma, Torino e Milano alla fine di questo mese. Sempre a Londra Philips de Pury propone a fine mese un’interessante asta di design.

Sempre a fine mese ci sarà l’asta da Christie’s della collezione di Hélène Rochas, nota per la sua linea di profumi, una vasta collezione di opere che vanno da Kandinskij a Warhol. Sotheby’s rilancia sempre a Parigi con la collezione Marcel Brient.

Fra le altre novità una nuova fiera a Lione, The Wall Art Fair, che si svolgerà dal 27 al 30 Settembre, mentre qualche giorno prima ci sarà in Austria la Viennafair presso il Messe Wien, Hall A, Entrance A, sempre a Vienna Dorotheum conclude il mese di vendite con una proposta di Tappeti, tessuti e arazzi.

Foto: Alexander Hamilton Auriema Made 04, 2009  Wunderkammern partecipante alla Viennafair  

Gustav Klimt 150 mediatiamente auguri

Centociquant'anni fa nasceva Gustav Klimt uno degli artisti più noti e sensuali della storia dell'arte. 

Come da tradizione mediatica Google gli dedica il suo noto doodles mentre noi vi segnaliamo la stupenda rassegna che è ora in corso a Vienna, dove ben 10 musei, dal Künstlerhaus, Leopold, Museo del Teatro fino al Belvedere, dedicano attenzione al complesso percorso dell'artista. 

L'artista fu legato per tutta la vita a Vienna, Klimt ha lasciato un'impronta indelebile sulla pittura del Modernismo e ha contribuito alla fama mondiale del Liberty. 

All'inizio scioccò i viennesi, poi li conquistò: Gustav Klimt, figlio di un talentuoso quanto povero incisore d'oro, non si limitò a rivoluzionare le tecniche artistiche, ma con il suo ardore e la sua passione scardinò addirittura i tabù delle pulsioni e dell'erotismo. Come contemporaneo di Sigmund Freud e Gustav Mahler, Gustav Klimt visse il periodo d'oro della capitale austriaca. Affascinante ribelle per la libertà dell'arte e della sessualità, egli regalò a Vienna un numero imponente di preziose opere d'arte. 

Il suo talento fu precocemente riconosciuto tanto che, grazie a una borsa di studio, Gustav Klimt poté frequentare già a 14 anni la Scuola d'Arte di Vienna. Gustav Klimt inaugurò il nuovo secolo, il periodo del Modernismo, facendo scoppiare una "bomba": nel 1894, quando era già un artista affermato, ottenne l'incarico di dipingere il soffitto dell'Università di Vienna. I bozzetti alquanto osé da lui presentati scatenarono uno scandalo che ebbe molta risonanza anche fuori Vienna. 

Ma il tempo era maturo per il genio incontenibile di Gustav Klimt: nel 1897 era già stato eletto presidente della Secessione Viennese, che sanciva una separazione programmatica dal conservatorismo della Künstlerhaus viennese. Sebbene costretto nel 1905 a rinunciare a dipingere i soffitti dell'Università, incarico affidatogli dal Ministero dell'Istruzione, Gustav Klimt rimase fedele alla sua predilezione dei nudi di donna come soggetto della sua pittura. Molti dei suoi dipinti sono in tutto e per tutto un omaggio sincero alla femminilità emancipata e sensuale. Nei suoi ritratti, Klimt rese omaggio all'universo femminile viennese, immergendolo nello straordinario decorativismo dello stile Liberty. 

A partire da Vienna il successo travolgente di Klimt proseguì inarrestabile sulla scena artistica internazionale. I suoi quadri venivano esposti e venduti in tutta Europa, raggiungendo quotazioni record persino a New York. In particolare il suo "Periodo d'Oro", che produsse dipinti di una sfarzosità irrefrenabile e di inestimabile valore materiale, si è impresso nella memoria artistica globale. Il dipinto sicuramente più famoso di Klimt, "Il Bacio" (1907/08), è assurto a simbolo dell'amore moderno, allo stesso tempo audace e dissipatore. Oggi lo si può ammirare a Vienna al Belvedere Superiore, ma numerose repliche sono fiorite anche altrove. 

Nei suoi ultimi anni di vita Gustav Klimt si occupò sempre più intensamente di un tema viennese tipico dell'epoca: l'intreccio di eros e thanatos. Nel clima che si respirava nella capitale austriaca, in cui Sigmund Freud si accostava a questa tematica in chiave psicoanalitica, nacque il dipinto di Klimt "Morte e Vita", che ottenne il primo premio all'Esposizione internazionale d'arte di Roma nel 1911. Gustav Klimt morì nel 1918 per infarto cardiaco, proprio nel momento in cui un'epoca era giunta al tramonto. Nello stesso anno morirono Otto Wagner, Kolo Moser ed Egon Schiele. La monarchia danubiana era polverizzata. I viennesi seppellirono Klimt in un mausoleo nel cimitero di Hitzing; nel 2012 celebrano euforicamente il suo genio indimenticato.