Search result: woodcut

On the occasion of the upcoming Albertina exhibition "Edvard Munch. In dialogue" curator Antonia Hoerschelmann gives us insight to the contemporaries who were influenced or inspired by Munch and his phantastic art.

At the Albertina museum in Vienna the main spring-exhibition is dedicated to Edvard Munch and his impact on contemporary artists like Georg Baselitz, Andy Warhol, Miriam Cahn, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Tracey Emin and Jasper Johns. The show presents main works of all the artists and makes us once more aware of the importance of this exceptional Norwegian artist Munch.

One thing can be revealed already: The quality of the exhibited works is simply impressive! Be inspired by our film feature with Albertina Director Klaus Albrecht Schröder, you will be rewarded with the best of printmaking from six centuries in this exhibition.

In the ART IN THE MAKING series, the Albertina invites artists to talk about their working methods. This time Eva Glück, Chief Conservator of the Albertina, talks to Ofer Lellouche not only about the subtleties of his prints, but also about what print can do for him that other art techniques cannot.

Stretched picture formats, asymmetrical compositions, bird’s eye perspectives, empty sections with only abstract lines and shapes, vibrant color fields, ornamental

Like an alchemist, the artist processes the dark matter as if it sprang up from the bowels of the earth. The pictures are composed like sedimentations, layers