It began, as it had to begin, how painting – which captures something new, thereby disturbing the conventional view – nearly always begins. With the changing times. With the meeting of artistic minds. With admiration that follows, along with a lack of understanding and sometimes even denial.

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Four years after Georges Braque moved into the French capital from Normandy, he was still painting landscapes in the Impressionistic style. However, his sphere of influence changed. He admires Matisse, Derain, Dufy, and Friesz. Not two years passed by before he became one of the Fauves, one of the young wild ones, as the art critic Louis Vauxcelles patronizingly referred to them on the occasion of an exhibition. more »

How does art find entrance into a medium which was still considered by many as only a photocopy of reality without artistic value until the middle of the last century? The writer and painter Friedrich Duerrenmatt pointed out a way: Reality, too, must be formed and given a voice that, in this case, tells us stories. By using the tool of photography for this art of making reality speak to us, what was previously only considered photocopy becomes a poetic procedure, a human treasure hunt, whose booty is timely and timeless at the same time.

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The exhibition, “Fotografis - Collection Reloaded”, in the Bank Austria Kunstforum, offers a space for such photographic figurations of reality along with its trails of the temporality to be displayed. The works from the internal FOTOGRAFIS collection reveal the paths of development of the photographic view. more »