Our artist-portraits about Michel de Broin und Shary Boyle are presented at the Reel Artists Film Festival Toronto 2012 and at the Canadian Art Reel Film Festival in Calgary 2012. For all of you who can't be there, watch the artist-portraits on our website: Michel de Broin - Matters of Circulation und Shary Boyle - Heartburnt Porcelain.
Thomas Wagensommerer - Of Making Hear.
5. September 2011, 14:06:32 unter Audio, Austria, German, Podcasts, Portraits, ViennaThe media artist and composer Thomas Wagensommerer studied digital media technology, philosophy and transdisciplinary art. His compositional works are positioned at the interfaces between man and machine – a field of activity which is in rapid transformation, due to permanent technological change and the fundamental deepening of the relationship between man and technology.
Of Making Hear.
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As a media artist, Thomas Wagensommerer explores the sound faculty of electronic instruments (the existence of sounds produced by it) as well as the possibilities of sound design in the era of the Web 2.0. more »
Arnulf Rainer - The Veiling
9. August 2011, 13:59:04 unter Arnulf Rainer Museum, Austria, Companies, German, Museums, Podcasts, Portraits, UNIQA, Video, ViennaTogether with Maria Lassnig he is considered the originator of Informal Art in Austria. His works are on display in the key museums all over the world. An artist’s portrait of Arnulf Rainer. This podcast was realised with the kind support of UNIQUA ArtCercles.
| computer & iPod | send feedback He visited André Breton, the writer and theoretical head of surrealism in Paris – this was the moment he turned away from surrealism. Together with Maria Lassnig, he is considered the originator of informal painting in Austria, his works are on display in the main museums on the entire globe. The road to success has at times been stony, tells Rainer, whose first solo exhibition took place in the St. Stephan gallery of Monsignore Otto Mauer in 1955. The beginning of his overpaintings for instance were not based upon any philosophical concepts, but were simply a consequence of his lack of money to buy new canvasses. Instead, the artist resorted to painted canvasses - pictures from the flea market. They were cheaper to buy. more »
Alexander Brodsky - It still amazes me that I became an architect
5. July 2011, 16:39:15 unter Architekturzentrum Wien, Art Spaces, Austria, English, Podcasts, Portraits, Video, Vienna“I felt a tender love towards all classical architecture, but a the same time dreamt of loving contemporary architecture as well”. A portrait of Alexander Brodsky.
Until October 2011, in its ongoing exhibition, the Architekturzentrum Wien displays works and a room-sized installation of the Russian artist and architect Alexander Brodsky.
| computer & iPod | send feedback At the beginning of his career, Alexander Brodsky is part of the “paper-architecture“ movement even though at that point, at the beginning of the eighties, there is no movement in the true sense yet. The notion “paper-architecture” rather expresses a typical limitation to architectural creativity in the Soviet Union of the time: Young architects who would refuse to fit in with the established architecture system would have no means to carry out their projects, and therefore design only for presentation or indeed just for the paper. more »
Exhibition - Alexander Steinwendtner. Random. Clean Cuts
17. June 2011, 13:14:59 unter Announcement, Austria, CastYourArt, Exhibitions, Galleries, Vienna
Rudolf Polanszky - Models for Transaggregate Structures
30. May 2011, 15:08:03 unter Austria, Galleries, German, Konzett, Podcasts, Portraits, Video, ViennaPolanszky shows that perceptions do not simply happen within us, but in fact are performed by us – producing reciprocal dynamics. Rudolf Polanszky is an artist of Gallery Konzett, Vienna.
| computer & iPod | send feedback “The human being forgets that it was him who produced the images in order to use them to find his bearings. He is unable to decipher them anymore and from then on lives in function of his own images: imagination has turned into hallucination.” (Vilem Flusser)
Polanszky’s works resemble a language und avail themselves of a sequence or composition of signs and symbols, but without directly reverting to concepts and without giving a direction to the relationship between cause and effect, leaving open which one is cause and which one effect. Reality as a principle is replaced by the performance of reality, including our capacities and mechanisms of representation and interpretation. more »
Homo Fabre - in the realm of the Blue Hour
16. May 2011, 14:06:36 unter Artworks, Austria, Companies, English, Exhibitions, Interviews, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Museums, Podcasts, UNIQA, Video, ViennaBetween mythical creatures and human forms, between dream and nightmare, we find ourselves in a world where life crawls and insects swarm: Welcome to the land of the Blue Hour. A selection of works by Jan Fabre in the Picture Gallery of Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna can be seen from 4 May till 28 August 2011. This podcast was realised with the kind support of UNIQUA ArtCercles.
| computer & iPod | send feedback Interview with Jasper Sharp, the curator of “The Hour Blue” exhibition of Jan Fabre at Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna
| send feedback Jan Fabre is an artist we can safely describe as a multidisciplinary all-rounder. He is a painter, graphic artist, stage director, choreographer, lighting designer, author and editor – drawing from all fields of creativity: Arts, sciences, philosophy, literature, religion…nothing escapes him. more »
Viennafair – This Year CEE-Focus Lastingly Strengthened
12. May 2011, 19:23:48 unter Art Fairs, Audio, Austria, English, Interviews, Vienna, ViennafairFor the seventh time, Viennafair takes place from May 12th to May 15th, with a focus on Central and Eastern European art. We spoke with Georg Schöllhammer and Hedwig Saxenhuber, the artistic directors of the fair.
Viennafair 2011 - Trailer
| computer & iPod | send feedback Interview with G. Schöllhammer and H. Saxenhuber, the artistic directors of the fair
| send feedback With 47 registrations from Eastern and South-Eastern Europe this CEE´s focus is the largest so far in the history of the “VIENNAFAIR”, including this year such significant positions as the Riga Gallery from Latvia, Plan B and Ivan from Romania, lokal_30 from Poland or Tulips and Roses from Lithuania as well as Skuc and P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E from Slovenia. With Gisich from St. Petersburg,GMG and paperworks from Moscow, the Russian scene shows again a strong presence in Vienna after a long while. With a total of five galleries, amongst these acb and Raday, Hungary is again strongly represented as in previous years. New this year are the Newman Popiashvili Gallery from Georgia and Tengri Umai Gallery from Kazakhstan. Also for the first time in Vienna (present with artists- streichen weil eh klar) are the Jiri Svestka Gallery from Prague, Art Radionica Lazareti and Contemporary Croatian Photography from Croatia.
The 1960s - Fantastic Modernism
29. March 2011, 19:03:19 unter Austria, Exhibitions, German, Interviews, Museum auf Abruf, Museums, Podcasts, Video, Vienna„The 1960ies: a fantastic modern“ in the MUSA Vienna reveals the spirit of a decade marked by radical upheaval, along the way the entire who’s who of Austrian art is displayed.
| computer & iPod | send feedback Not only in politics, also in the domain of the arts the 1960ies were a decade of worldwide upheaval, the radical changes can also be retraced in the Austrian art scene of that period. At the beginning of the decade, art became in many cases more political and provocative in its statements, drawing on subjects in between the realities of the mundane and the artistic. The convergence of high culture and popular culture has its beginnings in these movements, followed by a fundamental challenge to the previous notion of art. more »
Aivazovsky - A Russian fairytale
23. March 2011, 14:10:52 unter Art Spaces, Austria, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Exhibitions, German, Interviews, Podcasts, Video, ViennaAivazovsky is regarded as the master of seascapes. In his lifetime he dedicated himself to this motif as a metaphor for life, of desire as well as the struggle between nature and culture.
For the first time, the Bank Austria Kunstforum shows a retrospective of the artist outside of Russia and the Ukraine. There are fifty representative paintings on display, among them main works from the Aivazovsky Museum in Feodosia and the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg that have never been shown abroad.
| computer & iPod | send feedback As legend has it, he died in his studio with a brush in his hand, 111 years ago. In his exceptionally long life he actually left only this one painting unfinished, out of the estimated 6000 he painted. In his lifetime his works were already marvelled at, admired, venerated – and purchased. more »
KUCSKO - Double Coated IP Capsule
19. January 2011, 18:53:57 unter Art Spaces, Austria, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Exhibitions, German, Interviews, Podcasts, Video, ViennaAn exhibition by Kucsko with generative Sound installation by Karlheinz ESSL in Bank Austria Kunstforum - tresor.
| computer & iPod | send feedback Audiointerview with Karlheinz Essl in German
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| send feedback The vault of the Bank Austria Kunstforum is a room full of references and allusions, with its own history and charisma, a chamber of wonders, whose architecture, with its safe deposits boxes inseparably built-in as a part of the concrete, its impenetrable reinforced concrete walls, their double protective layers and its access control corridor, makes it “ready made”, just waiting to be filled as a vessel for ideas. Does that make it “art”?
