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Prince Eugen - General, Philosopher and Art Lover
17. February 2010, 14:48:00 unter Austria, Belvedere, Companies, Exhibitions, German, Interviews, Museums, Podcasts, UNIQA, Video, ViennaAn exhibition on the statesman and art patron Prince Eugene of Savoy-Carignan at Vienna’s Orangerie and Lower Belvedere. This podcast was realised with the kind support of UNIQUA ArtCercles.
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Prinz Eugen, as he is known in Austria, was a renowned lover and collector of art and left a vast collection of paintings, copper engravings, books and hand writings. He became one of the most influential Austrians of his time when he moved to the country after being rejected by Louis XIV for service in the French army.
As a commander he was a daredevil, willing to sacrifice human lives by the thousands more »
Gulsun Karamustafa - Interview with the artist at the tanzimat Exhibition
4. February 2010, 20:30:19 unter Art Spaces, Artworks, Augarten Contemporary, Austria, English, Exhibitions, German, Interviews, Podcasts, Video, Vienna
| computer & iPod | send feedback Gulsun Karamustafa is a contemporary artist and film maker from Turkey. In 2009 she was the artist in residence at the Augarten Contemporary in Vienna. For the exhibition tanzimat (Augarten Contemporary 21.1.2010 - 16.5.2010) she produced a new piece entitled “modernity unveiled/interweaving histories”. In the interview with CYA Karamustafa talks about this piece.
Mirabilia, Furies and Curiosa - The Chamber of Curiosities at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna
3. December 2009, 16:38:39 unter Austria, Companies, Exhibitions, German, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Museums, Podcasts, UNIQA, Video, Vienna“And if there ever was an age when one sees varied and wondrous things I believe that ours is one” (Mateo Bandello, 1554) This podcast was realised with the kind support of UNIQUA ArtCercles.
| Computer & iPod | send feedback Miniatures made of ivory, rhino and narwhale horn. Ostrich eggs, symbols of power and resistance as the ancient mythology says the giant birds live on stones and iron. Seychelles nuts washed ashore on the Maldives. Bezoars, rocks found in the stomach of ruminant animals that are rumoured to dispel melancholy, composed in the finest art of metalworking. Arty watches, wondrous automatic machines, quadrants, astrolabes and other scientific instruments. The most bizarre monstrosities, Madonna figures and Dionysian satyrs standing in a row with mystic animals thrown out of the deepest oceans. more »
Sylvia Ferino – Pears as Tearducts, a Corncob for an Ear
11. June 2008, 13:58:38 unter Audio, Austria, Exhibitions, German, Interviews, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Museums, Podcasts, ViennaA good five centuries ago, a navigator called Vespucci had gained the respect of a cartographer called Waldseemüller, who decided to christen the Mundus Novus as the continent of America. The interest in Europe in imported goods from the New World had grown significantly in this time. With economic expansion, the Old World had also opened up a new area of knowledge, which was meant to be conquered scientifically.
Sylvia Ferino – Pears as Tearducts, a Corncob for an Ear. Part 1
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| send feedback Against the backdrop of this newly developing landscape of knowledge in the sixteenth century, the Milanese painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo began making portraits of human faces arranged from seafood, fruits, and vegetables in the court of the Habsburg king, Maximillian II. Of course, this kind of metamorphosis of the human face had already been mesmerizing people at the time and more »
