“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.

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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 »

Rather than expressing something directly, the force of artistic expressivity lies within manifesting the getting-to-talk within the work itself.

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„I will now reveal the secret: I am talking about an important artist“ (Christian Ludwig Attersee)

Random. Clean Cuts. The works of the new series by the artist Alexander Steinwendtner contain an essential and fascinating quality of human endeavour, referred to as making art: precise artistic expression arises stems from an artistic attunement, not quite definable and therefore not attainable in an exact manner.

In other words, the artist is able to specify what falls to him and that art is not simply mastered, but in fact created. Quality, says Alexander Steinwendtner, arises from a time that he is somewhat unable to define. Therefore the artistic agenda is to venture into the undefined, in order to reach the concept. more »

The Albertina in Vienna—its distinguished collection of artwork covers, among other things, Albrecht Dürer’s rabbits—shows in its current exhibition, “Art after 1970”, that it also offers more recent works of art. CastYourArt’s Ulrike Grabler and Ewa Stern were at the exhibition opening and asked visitors about their opinion over the museum and the exhibited works. For example, does the museum’s exhibition suit the taste of its tradition-conscious public, and does the size of exhibited works from such artists as Baselitz, Brandl, Lassnig, Rainer or Weiler really determine their aesthetic value? The attending guests readily responded to both questions, but they were not necessarily united in their opinions. Listen and decide for yourself. (wh/jn)

Albertina exhibition. Art after 1970

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