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CastYourArt - Watch Art Now
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Subscribe to our podcast and get over 300 art-episodes for free. Watch art now. CastYourArt offers video reports and reviews for people fascinated by art. The published video- and audio-episodes are windows to the world of art: its ideas, institutions, and actors, its economics, contradictions, and its ups and downs. Abonnieren Sie unseren Podcast und erhalten Sie über 300 Filmbeiträge. Mit seinen Beiträgen schafft CastYourArt Zugang zur Welt der Kunst, zu ihren Gedankenräumen und Ideen, zu Institutionen und Akteuren, zu Wirtschaftlichkeit, Widersprüchlichkeit, Scheitern und Erfolg.
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Subscribe to our podcast and get over 300 art-episodes for free. Watch art now. CastYourArt offers video reports and reviews for people fascinated by art. The published video- and audio-episodes are windows to the world of art: its ideas, institutions, and actors, its economics, contradictions, and its ups and downs. Abonnieren Sie unseren Podcast und erhalten Sie über 300 Filmbeiträge. Mit seinen Beiträgen schafft CastYourArt Zugang zur Welt der Kunst, zu ihren Gedankenräumen und Ideen, zu Institutionen und Akteuren, zu Wirtschaftlichkeit, Widersprüchlichkeit, Scheitern und Erfolg.
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MY GENERATION. Die Sammlung Jablonka
MY GENERATION. Die Sammlung Jablonka Die Sammlung Jablonka ist eine der wichtigsten Sammlungen zur amerikanischen und deutschen Kunst der 1980er-Jahre, mit Arbeiten von Künstlerinnen und Künstlern, die Rafael Jablonka gefördert, bekannt gemacht und gesammelt hat. Die Sammlung umfasst Werke von Michael Heizer, Eric Fischl, Mike Kelley, Sherrie Levine, Philip Taaffe, Roni Horn, Damien Hirst, Richard Avedon, Francesco Clemente, Richard Deacon, Andreas Slominski und anderen wichtigen Künstlern wie etwa des Fotografen Nobuyoshi Araki, der mit 240 Arbeiten vertreten ist. Nun sind Werke von vierzehn Künstlern und Künstlerinnen aus seiner Sammlung in der Ausstellung "My Generation. Die Sammlung Jablonka" in der Albertina zu sehen. Die meisten der Künstler*innen wurden wie der 68jährige Jablonka selbst in den 1950er Jahren geboren. Kuratiert hat der Sammler gemeinsam mit Albertina Kuratorin Elsy Lahner. Auf zwei Etagen werden die einzelnen Künstlerpositionen in separaten Räumen gezeigt, so werden vertiefte Einblicke in das jeweilige Schaffen möglich. Gemälde, Skulpturen, Videos, Installationen und Arbeiten auf Papier zeigen die thematische und mediale Vielfalt der Sammlung Jablonka. Nicht alle der Gezeigten hat Jablonka als Galerist betreut, er war aber stets in engem Austausch mit den einzelnen Künstlern und hat Arbeiten aus verschiedenen Werkphasen erworben. Seine Galerien in Deutschland hat Jablonka im Jahr 2017 geschlossen, wobei die Böhm Chapel, ein 2010 von Jablonka erworbener moderner Kirchenbau, noch als Ausstellungsraum genutzt wird. Trotz Angeboten von deutschen Museen hat Rafael Jablonka sich für die Albertina entschieden. Die 400 Werke, die Rafael Jablonka der Albertina übergeben hat, ergänzen wichtige Kapitel der neueren Kunstgeschichte. Derzeit wird die Sammlung von verschiedenen Standorten in Europa in das neue Zentraldepot der Albertina für Gegenwartskunst in Klosterneuburg gebracht. In den nächsten Jahren sind weitere Ausstellungen, die auf die Werke der Sammlung Jablonka zurückgreifen geplant, dabei auch eine Fotografie-Ausstellung mit Arbeiten von Nobuyoshi Araki. (Text: Cem Angeli) Die Ausstellung “MY GENERATION. Die Sammlung Jablonka” im Albertina Museum in Wien ist noch bis 21. Februar 2021 zu sehen. Albertina | www.albertina.at Eine CastYourArt Produktion | www.castyourart.com
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GERHARD RICHTER. Landscape
GERHARD RICHTER. Landscape Under the title "Landscape", the Bank Austria Kunstforum is bringing Gerhard Richter to Vienna with a landscape retrospective – the largest exhibition up to date devoted exclusively to Gerhard Richter's landscapes. The last major Gerhard Richter exhibition in Vienna took place in 2009 at the Albertina. The show was curated by Hubertus Butin (Berlin) and Lisa Ortner-Kreil from Bank Austria Kunstforum Vienna, in collaboration with the Kunsthaus Zürich. About 130 paintings, drawings, prints, photographic works, artist books and objects are on display, provided by the artist himself and by international lenders, some of the works are being shown publicly for the first time. Many of Richter's seascapes, nocturnal pieces, woods, snow or cloud paintings from the 1960s and 1970s, up to his latest work in the Kunstforum – a drawing from 2018 – have never been on view before. Gerhard Richter's name is synonymous with multifacetedness and changeability. Abstract or figurative, he never committed himself to one method or style, he is considered a "stylistic chameleon". The ambiguity is also evident in his landscape paintings. When Richter, born in Dresden in 1932, moved to the West in 1961, he changed his artistic and socio-political environment and left socialist realism behind. He found himself in an environment dominated by late Informel and beginning Pop Art. This paradigm shift triggered a skepticism in Richter's work toward certainties and categories in art. Richter began to understand artistic practice as an action, as a means of reflecting on the present. Thus, over time, Richter has addressed the problem of pictorial illusion by blurring the boundaries between abstraction and figuration and confronting the genre of landscape painting with German Romanticism. In his examination of romanticizing landscape paintings, he refers to art history from Caspar David Friedrich to William Turner, while at the same time incorporating a level of reflection on painting itself. Richter breaks with the landscape ideal; he does not paint nature, but rather images of nature, using photographs – taken from newspapers, magazines or self-made – as a model for his painting, incorporating the mediation through the medium in the image itself. He calls them "second-hand landscapes", with unusual picture sections and the inclusion of irritating details. The artist operates with illusions and twists, he alters the photographic motifs and reassembles them as a model for the paintings. Richter scrubs the canvas with a squeegee while the paint is still fresh, giving them their characteristic blurriness. It is an effect that paradoxically captures the mechanical nature of the original paintings, the photographs, by imitating a technical flaw through the handicraft of its execution. The final application is only made legible by its disturbance; it is this blurring, characteristic of Richter, that sharpens our perception. Richter called these pictures "cuckoo's eggs", also the title of one of the five chapters of the exhibition, which is not chronological but divided into five thematic chapters. Where Richter smears the image with paint thinner, in a kind of double annulment, he takes a close look at his past in socialist realism as well as at the apparent inwardness of the gesture of romantic landscape painting. Richter's oeuvre eludes categorization. The common thread running through the various motifs, styles, and historical references of Richter's work, however, is painting itself: He revives this medium by constantly questioning its languages, its means of expression. The stylistic and thematic range is Richter's response to the limitations of art – and a tangible echo of his personal history. (Written by Cem Angeli) The exhibition “Gerhard Richter. Landscape” at Bank Austria Kunstforum Vienna is on display till February 14. 2020.
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GERHARD RICHTER. Landschaft
GERHARD RICHTER. Landschaft Unter dem Titel „Landschaft“ bringt das Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien Gerhard Richter mit einer Landschaftsbild-Retrospektive nach Wien – die bisher größte Ausstellung, die ausschließlich Gerhard Richters Landschaften gewidmet ist. Die letzte große Gerhard Richter Ausstellung in Wien fand 2009 in der Albertina statt. Kuratiert wurde die Schau von Hubertus Butin (Berlin) und Lisa Ortner-Kreil, in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Kunsthaus Zürich. Etwa 130 Bilder, Zeichnungen, Druckgrafiken, Fotoarbeiten, Künstlerbücher und Objekte sind zu sehen, bereitgestellt vom Künstler selbst und von internationalen Leihgebern, wobei manche der Arbeiten zum ersten Mal öffentlich gezeigt werden. Viele von Richters Seestücken, Nachtstücken, Wäldern, Schnee- oder Wolkenbildern von den 1960er und 1970er Jahren, bis hin zur neuesten Arbeit im Kunstforum, einer Zeichnung von 2018, waren noch nie zu sehen. Gerhard Richters Name steht für Facettenreichtum und Wandelbarkeit. Abstrakt oder figurativ, er legte sich nie auf eine Methode oder einen Stil fest, er gilt als „stilistisches Chamäleon“. Die Uneindeutigkeit ist auch in seinen Landschaftsbildern offensichtlich. Als der 1932 in Dresden geborene Richter 1961 in den Westen übersiedelte, wechselte er die künstlerische und soziopolitische Umgebung und liess den sozialistischen Realismus hinter sich. Er fand sich in einer Umgebung wieder wo der späte Informel und die beginnende Pop Art dominierten. Dieser Paradigmenwechsel löste bei Richter eine Skepsis gegenüber Gewissheiten und Kategorien in der Kunst aus. Richter begann die künstlerische Praxis als eine Handlung zu verstehen, als Mittel, über die Gegenwart nachzudenken. So hat sich Richter im Laufe der Zeit mit der Problematik der Bildillusion auseinandergesetzt, indem er die Grenzen zwischen Abstraktion und Figuration verwischt und das Genre des Landschaftsbildes mit der deutschen Romantik konfrontiert. In seiner Auseinandersetzung mit romantisierenden Landschaftsbildern bezieht er sich auf die Kunstgeschichte von Caspar David Friedrich bis William Turner, baut allerdings gleichzeitig eine Reflexionsebene über das Malen selbst ein. Richter bricht mit dem Landschaftsideal, er malt nicht die Natur, sondern Abbilder der Natur, indem er Fotos – aus Zeitungen, Magazinen oder selbst gemacht – als Vorlage seiner Malerei verwendet und die Vermittlung durch das Medium mit einbezieht. Er nennt sie "Landschaften aus zweiter Hand", mit ungewöhnlichen Bildausschnitten unter Einarbeitung von irritierenden Details. Der Künstler operiert mit Täuschungen, verdreht und verändert die Fotomotive und montiert sie als Vorlage für die Gemälde neu. Richter rakelt über die Leinwände, während die Farbe noch frisch ist und verleiht ihnen so ihre charakteristische Verschwommenheit. Ein Effekt, der auf paradoxe Weise die mechanische Natur der Originalbilder, der Fotografien, aufnimmt, indem er einen technischen Fehler imitiert, durch die Handarbeit seiner Arbeitsausführung. Der Farbauftrag wird durch seine Störung erst lesbar gemacht, mit dieser für Richter charakteristischen Unschärfe wird erst unsere Wahrnehmung geschärft. „Kuckuckseier“ nannte Richter diese Bilder, das ist auch der Titel eines der fünf Kapitel der Ausstellung, die nicht chronologisch, sondern in fünf thematische Kapitel gegliedert ist. Wo Richter die Abbildung mit Verdünner verschmiert, nimmt er in einer Art von doppelter Aufhebung ebenso seine Vergangenheit im sozialistischen Realismus aufs Korn wie auch die scheinbare Innerlichkeit der Geste der romantischen Landschaftsmalerei. Richters Oeuvre entzieht sich der Kategorisierung. Der rote Faden der sich durch die verschiedenen Motive, Stile, und historische Bezüge von Richters Werk zieht, ist aber die Malerei selbst: Er belebt dieses Medium neu, durch ständiges Infragestellen seiner Sprachen, seiner Ausdrucksmittel. Die stilistische und thematische Bandbreite ist Richters Entgegnung auf die Beschränkungen der Kunst – und ein spürbares Echo seiner persönlichen Geschichte. (Text: Cem Angeli) Die Ausstellung „Gerhard Richter. Landschaft“ läuft noch bis zum 14. Februar 2021.
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THE BEGINNING. Art in Austria, 1945-1980. #9 Feminist Avant-Garde
THE BEGINNING. Art in Austria, 1945-1980. #8 Art Brut Early Austrian Feminist art production is associated with artists like VALIE EXPORT, and Kiki Kogelnik who - with their body related and performative art - built a counterpart to the strongly male dominated Viennese actionism. Putting a focus on patriarchal society and its constraints the so called Austrian feminist avant-garde was in search for new visual and gestural language and introduced therefor new ways of expression, themes as well as aesthetics into contemporary, mail dominated art. In our CastYourArt video portrait, chief curator Angela Stief provides insights into the works and characteristic features of the feminist avant-garde and its members such as Birgit Jürgenssen, Renate Bertlmann, Linda Christanell, Friederike Pezold, Karin Mack, Margot Pilz, Auguste Kronheim, Valentina Pakosta, and others. (Textsource: Albertina Wien) ALBERTINAmodern | www.albertina.at A CastYourArt Production | www.castyourart.com
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THE BEGINNING. Art in Austria, 1945-1980. #8 Art Brut
THE BEGINNING. Art in Austria, 1945-1980. #8 Art Brut In post-war Austria, Art Brut is especially associated with one place and one name: The former mental hospital Gugging and the psychiatrist Leo Navratil who worked there. He promoted artistic work as part of the therapy, and very soon outsider art -as an art that comes from the unconscious- became interesting, not only for collectors but also as a source of inspiration for other artists. Johann Hauser, Oswald Tschirtner and August Walla are the first stars in the house of the artists. In the opening exhibition of the ALBERTINAmodern, "The Beginning. Art in Austria, 1945 to 1980", the important role of Art Brut in contemporary art is highlighted in a special thematic exhibition hall. ALBERTINAmodern | www.albertina.at Eine CastYourArt Produktion | www.castyourart.com
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THE BEGINNING. Art in Austria, 1945-1980. #7 Geometric Abstraction
THE BEGINNING. Art in Austria, 1945-1980. #7 Geometric Abstraction In Austria's post-war art of the 1960s and 1970s we can find constructivist, concrete and and also cinetic artworks. In spite of a rich tradition -the Vienna Group, the Viennese School of art history or the twelve-tone technique come to mind- geometric abstraction and concrete art received surprisingly little attention at first. In the opening exhibition "The Beginning. Art in Austria 1945 to 1980", ALBERTINAmodern exposes the protagonists of this art movement, among them Marc Adrian, Roland Goeschl, Richard Kriesche, Dóra Maurer, Hermann J. Painitz and Helga Philipp. In our CastYourArt video portrait, curator Angela Stief provides insights into the works and characteristic features of this art movement. (Textsource: Albertina Wien) ALBERTINAmodern | www.albertina.at A CastYourArt Production | www.castyourart.com
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THE BEGINNING. Art in Austria, 1945-1980. #6 Pop Art
THE BEGINNING. Art in Austria, 1945-1980. #6 Pop Art Pop Art as an art that mirrors modern absorbs the taste of the people. Flamboyant colors, hard outlines and flat depictions were popular, aesthetically reminding of advertisings and flashy neon signs in the big cities of the economically prospering 1960s. At first the eye-catching art promises lightness, easiness, consumption and entertainment. But particularly the works of Austrian Pop artists demonstrate their reservations about the consumer culture that is crucial for the creation of Pop Art. Ludwig Christian Attersee, Kiki Kogelnik, Cornelius Kolig, Robert Klemmer, Ingeborg G. Pluhar and Franz Zadrazil do actually confront the overstimulation of urban envorinments, the new materials, the seductions of the media and the world of consumer objects. The representation of everyday life‘s mythologies is also closely linked to the new household materials like plastic, and with techniques like collage, with inflatables and various printing techniques. ALBERTINAmodern | www.albertina.at Eine CastYourArt Produktion | www.castyourart.com
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5 years ago
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THE BEGINNING. Art in Austria, 1945-1980. #5 Vienna Actionism
THE BEGINNING. Art in Austria, 1945-1980. #4 Abstract Art Among the contemporary art movements that developed after the Second World War in Austria, Vienna Actionism and its protagonists are the most prominent and most recognized internationally. Hermann Nitsch, Günter Brus, Otto Muehl, Rudolf Schwarzkogler have to be mentioned in the first place, but at some points in their careers, Padhi Frieberger as well as Arnulf Rainer also made their contribution to Actionism. Vienna Actionism is characterized by a radicalism that was unusual for the era, by an apparently aggressive physicality and by the transition from sculpture to the body and to interior space. The opening exhibition The Beginning in ALBERTINAmodern dedicates a specific focus to Vienna Actionism. In our video #5, CastYourArt interviewed curator Brigitte Borchhardt-Bierbaumer about this art movement. ALBERTINAmodern | www.albertina.at Eine CastYourArt Produktion | www.castyourart.com
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2 minutes 17 seconds

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THE BEGINNING. Art in Austria, 1945-1980. #4 Abstract Art
THE BEGINNING. Art in Austria, 1945-1980. #4 Abstract Art With their abstract works, Austrian artists in the post-war years managed to become part of the international avant-garde in a very short time, although the production of abstract artworks has its origins in quite diverse starting points. While the approach of artists like Josef Mikl, Otto Eder, Rudolf Hoflehner and Andreas Urteil is more focused on the human figure, painters like Wolfgang Hollegha or Max Weiler are more oriented towards nature. Arnulf Rainer creates his abstract works by means of reduction while Markus Prachensky or Hans Staudacher rely very much on their individual pictorial gesture in their approach to abstraction. In our video, ALBERTINAmodern curator Antonia Hoerschelmann guides us through the exhibition THE BEGINNING. Art in Austria 1945 to 1980, pointing out the crucial artistic features and protagonists of abstract art in Austria. ALBERTINAmodern | www.albertina.at A CastYourArt Production | www.castyourart.com
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THE BEGINNING. Art in Austria, 1945-1980. #3 How the Artists Address the Nazi Era in their Work
THE BEGINNING. Art in Austria, 1945-1980. #3 How the Artists Address the Nazi Era in their Work Very soon after the war and for the following decades, National Socialism and the atrocities of tyranny and war were frequent topics in the work of Austrian artists. Starting with the Fantastic Realists, among them particularly Wolfgang Hauser, then of course in Vienna Actionism and finally in sculpture, for example with Bruno Gironcoli and Walter Pichler. In the first opening exhibition „The Beginning. Art in Austria 1945 to 1980.“, ALBERTINAmodern intends to complete the history of art. One of the narrative’s threads is certainly the confrontation with the Nazi past that we mentioned before. It continues up to the work of Gottfried Helnwein. In a series he made for the news magazine Profil he takes up the subject of the children’s killing in the psychiatric institution Spiegelgrund as well as post-war Austria’s failure to address the issue and the lack of accountability for committed crimes. ALBERTINAmodern | www.albertina.at A CastYourArt Production | www.castyourart.com
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THE BEGINNING. Art in Austria, 1945-1980. #2 Fantastic Realism and Friedensreich Hundertwasser
THE BEGINNING. Art in Austria, 1945-1980. #2 Fantastic Realism and Friedensreich Hundertwasser At the beginning of art in Austria after the Nazi tyranny and the war there was the „Vienna School of Phantastic Realism“, at first known under the term „Vienna Surrealism“. It included artists like Arik Brauer, Ernst Fuchs, Rudolf Hausner, Wolfgang Hutter and Anton Lehmden as the core members of the group. It will probably be surprising for some who know him, but Arnulf Rainer also produced some works that count as part of that movement. By their art, the artists of this group were looking for a new orientation after the heroic posturing and the fake idyll of Nazi art, to opening up to international movements, especially Surrealism. However, they can not be regarded as successors of French Surrealism because their approach was much more analytic, and marked by a profound reflection on the contingency of existence in the world and of their own situation. Friedensreich Hundertwasser can be considered as the one Austrian post-war artist who gained international recognition and success early on. He created a very unique oeuvre that contains elements of a world view and positions – like holistic nature and environmental awareness – that are still relevant today and that were ahead of their time in his era. 
 In the CastYourArt video, curators Berthold Ecker and Elisabeth Dutz present Phantastic Realism and the art of Hundertwasser, each of them have their own section dedicated to them in the exhibition at the ALBERTINAmodern „The Beginning. Art in Austria 1945 to 1980“. (Written by Wolfgang Haas / Translation by Cem Angeli) ALBERTINAmodern | www.albertina.at A CastYourArt Production | www.castyourart.com
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THE BEGINNING. Art in Austria, 1945-1980. #1 Overview
THE BEGINNING. Art in Austria, 1945-1980. #1 Overview "The Beginning. Art in Austria. 1945-1980" is the title of the opening exhibition at the new Museum ALBERTINAmodern which is dedicated to post war Austrian and international art. In its first exhibition the museum presents an overview over Austrian post war art of the first three decades, pointing out how the artists of this time dealt with the cruel history of national socialism and war-time and how art from Austria found its way back to international recognition. Artworks of Hermann Nitsch, Maria Lassnig, Arnulf Rainer, Friedensreich Hundertwasser and Franz West and many other artists are on view in the exhibition which has thirteen chapters. The challenge, as ALBERTINAmodern Director Klaus Albrecht Schröder states, was to rewrite art history and while walking through the show, one has the chance to experience that the canon of art history has still not been completed yet. The CastYourArt exhibition portrait with Klaus Albrecht Schröder is the first of a series of ten, which will be published within the following weeks. (Written by Wolfgang Haas / Translated by Cem Angeli) ALBERTINAmodern | www.albertina.at A CastYourArt Production | www.castyourart.com
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BALKRISHNA DOSHI. Architecture for the People
BALKRISHNA DOSHI. Architecture for the People In his seven decade-long career, the Indian architect and urbanist Balkrishna Doshi (*1927 in Puna) especially cared about affordable housing, community spirit and natural construction. In 2018, he was the first Indian architect to receive the prestigious Pritzker prize for architecture. Until receiving this award, the revolutionary vanguardist architect Doshi had not enjoyed the recognition in the western world that he deserved - even though he had worked with Le Corbusier, Louis Kahn and Kenzo Tage early in his career. According to Architekturzentrum Wien director Angelika Fitz, « his work is extremely relevant, from affordable housing to environmentally friendly solutions like natural ventilation. He cares about how to construct community. In the multiple crises we go through at the moment, Doshi gives relevant and vaid answers. He demonstrated that architecture is a part of life. » His ideas about architecture for the people are now on view in the exhibition dedicated to him in the Architekturzentrum Wien. Originally this exhibition should have started on March 26, but due to the Covid pandemic it will stay in Vienna for only one month before moving on to Chicago. Curated by Doshi‘s granddaughter Khushnu Panthaki Hoof and Jolanthe Kugler, the exhibition is a project of the Vitra Design Museum and the Wüstenrot foundation in cooperation with the Vastushilpa foundation. Vastushilpa („shaping the environment“) is the name of the architecture office Doshi founded in 1956. The exhibition in the AzW has four main chapters: Educational buildings (like the architectural college he founded), institutional projects, affordable housing and urbanism. The variety of building plans, projects, sketches, videos and photographs and small and large models ensure a comprehensive overview of Balkrishna Doshi’s career. There is a replica of parts of his own house, named after his wife Kamala, on a 1:1 scale, the organic domed building of the GUFA gallery (1990) is reproduced on a 1 :2 scale and accessible in the AzW as well. His buildings often function with natural ventilation making use of traditional methods of low-tech cooling, like in his office building Sangath (« Acting together »), built in 1980. In the vaults of the building he introduced ceramic tubes that are filled with rainwater, constituting a sustainable cooling system. On display there is also a model of a housing project in Aranya in Central India from 1989, facilitating affordable housing by empowerment of the residents. 30 sqm buildings were distributed to low-income families by means of a state lottery. The basic module including sanitary facilities and connection to canalization and electricity were provided to the inhabitants. After moving in it was possible to adapt the building according to every family’s own needs by a modular system. There was a catalogue with 60 kinds of modules and model houses for selection. The photographs taken during the following years demonstrate that Doshi has succeeded to create the conditions for the organic and homogenous growth of an urban environment. For the architect who lives in Ahmedabad in Western India, life is in constant evolution. Growing up in a very large family he observed numerous changes in life’s circumstances. Therefore architecture for people should be something organic, flexible and close to nature and not static and top-down imposed. It is a multifaceted low-tech architecture that appeals to all senses, making possible well-being and community in a profoundly emancipatory style. (Written by Cem Angeli) The exhibition is on view in the AzW until June 29, Tue – Sun 11 am – 7 pm Architekturzentrum Wien | www.azw.at A CastYourArt Production | www.castyourart.com
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NOW. COLLECTED #9 | #10. Im tresor des Bank Austria Kunstforum
NOW. COLLECTED #9 | #10. Im tresor des Bank Austria Kunstforum NOW. collected #9 | #10 bildet den Abschluss des Ausstellungsformats collected, das im tresor im Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien seit 2011 unter diversen thematischen Gesichtspunkten Werke aus der Bank Austria Kunstsammlung präsentiert. In den Ausstellungen wird der Frage nachgegangen, wie eine junge Auseinandersetzung mit dem fotografischen Medium im erweiterten Sinn gegenwärtig aussehen kann. Im Zuge der letzten Ausstellung wurden fotografische Arbeiten aus Wiener Galerien ausgewählt, um sich der Aktualität des Mediums Fotografie zu stellen. Bank Austria Kunstforum | www.kunstforumwien.at A CastYourArt Production | www.castyourart.com
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MICHAEL HOROWITZ. About Stars and Nearness in Photography
MICHAEL HOROWITZ. About Stars and Nearness in Photography The Albertina’s exhibition about Austrian photographer Michael Horowitz has his works from two decades on display. The images focus on the icons of the art and culture scene in Austria. There is a half-naked young Arnold Schwarzenegger in the legendary Café Hawelka in Vienna, the meeting point of Vienna’s artistis avant-garde. There is Andy Warhol putting make-up on a model during a commissioned work in Vienna, and there is the author Thomas Bernhard on a bicycle - in the basement of his farmhouse in Upper Austria. Horowitz started his career as a photogrpaher at the age of fourteen, at the age of eighteen he photographed Kiki Kogelnik in New York. He was close friends with Helmut Qualtinger. He always managed to establish a close relationship with his models, favourable conditions for the sometimes bizarre scenarios in which he would capture his models. Especially in our days of an overload of selfie portraits, Michael Horowitz’ incredibly expressive black and white photographs are still impressive, coming across as glimpses of an era long gone. (written by Cem Angeli) Albertina Museum | www.albertina.at A CastYourArt Production | www.castyourart.com
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ALBERTINAmodern. Terrazzo- and mosaik restorator Silvano Malano
ALBERTINAmodern. Terrazzo- and mosaik restorator Silvano Malano The floor of the historic Künstlerhaus building in Vienna was done of terrazzo and mosaic. Silvano Marano terrazzo-master guids us through the process of restorating the floor. From 13 march the ALBERTINAmodern, Viennas new museum for modern and contemporary art, is going to open there. ALBERTINAmodern | www.albertina.at A CastYourArt Production | www.castyourart.com
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The Cindy Sherman Effect. Identity and Transformation in Contemporary Art
The Cindy Sherman Effect. Identity and Transformation in Contemporary Art Cindy Sherman became known in the 1980s for her „Untitled Film Stills“. In these photographs she performed various roles in which she challenged the portrait as a concept as well as constructions of gender and stereotypes about culture, gender and identity. In the exhibition The Cindy Sherman Effect. Identity and Transformation in Contemporary Art in the Kunstforum Wien it becomes evident how much following generations of artists are indebted to Sherman’s ground-breaking work about issues like identity and transformation. In the group exhibition, works by the American artist (*1954) are confronted with those by 21 contemporary artists, her role as a pioneer becomes obvious when contemplating the total of 80 exhibits in the show. For her presentation, curator Bettina Busse inversed the usual spatial arrangement. This time the exhibition does not start in the large columned entrance hall, instead the beginning of the show is in the rooms behind the bookshop, which is where the entrance is located now. In the exhibition halls, video work by Ryan Trecartin, Candice Breitz and Pipilotti Rist or photographs by Tejal Shah, Catherine Opeis and Zanele Muholi demonstrate in direct comparison with works by Cindy Sherman where the aesthetic and thematic overlappings can be identified. One of the exhibition’s conclusions seems to be that art is -to a large extent- generated with other art in mind. The exhibition continues un the Kunstforum Vienna until June 21, 2020. (Text written by Cem Angeli) A CastYourArt Production | www.castyourart.com
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ALBERTINA MODERN. Let there be light.
ALBERTINA MODERN. Let there be light. Wolfgang Schwarzkogler tells us how he restorated the historic chandelier at Künstlerhaus, the new venue of ALBERTINAmodern. This new museum for modern and contemporary art in Vienna is going to open on 12 March 2020. Albertina | www.albertina.at A CastYourArt Production | www.castyourart.com
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ALBERTINA MODERN. Art patron Hans Peter Haselsteiner.
ALBERTINA MODERN. Art patron Hans Peter Haselsteiner. The restoration and modernization of the historical Künstlerhaus building in Vienna was financed by art patron Hans Peter Haselsteiner. On 13 March 2020 one part of the building will open as the ALBERTINAmodern museum for modern art. We met the art patron and asked him about his motivation for his great engagement
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ALBERTINA MODERN. The art of gold plating
ALBERTINA MODERN. The art of gold plating. How does a brand new museum come to life in a historical building like the Künstlerhaus in Vienna? Restorer Karl Kratochwil shares insight into his work of gold plating. Watch now and enjoy the new Museum ALBERTINAmodern which opens 13 March 2020. Albertina | www.albertina.at A CastYourArt Production | www.castyourart.com
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