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The Beauty of Diversity, ALBERTINA modern

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from 16 February 2024
The Beauty of Diversity « The ALBERTINA Museum Vienna

Efforts to expand and diversify museum collections are a logical consequence of today’s unconditional calls for equal rights and freedom of expression. The exhibition The Beauty of Diversity presents the rich depth and breadth of the ALBERTINA Museum’s contemporary collections while demonstrating the essential turn toward women and LGBTQIA+ artists, people of color, aboriginal artistic stances, and autodidacts, all of whose works stand out before the contrasting foil of the Old Masters. Today’s art world is characterized by a deep interest in identity politics and its issues of class, race, and gender. The resulting broad spectrum of artistic, stylistic, and substantive approaches represents a necessary expansion of the historical canon that is represented at the ALBERTINA Museum by artists ranging from Michelangelo and Raphael to Dürer, Rembrandt, and Rubens and on to Goya, Schiele, Picasso, and Warhol. In its various chapters, this spring exhibition at ALBERTINA MODERN develops an aesthetics of the diverse that upends the ideality of classicist stylistic and formal strivings as well as the conception of the human being as one-dimensional, preferring to instead pursue the beauty of the grotesque, impure, and repressed while lending visibility to that which is marginalized, downcast, and divergent from the norm. The hybrid mixing and recombination of various systems and genders plays as prominent a role here as does the presentation of the marginalized. The inclusion of artists from Australia, Africa, Asia, and South America is a priority in this exhibition and serves to undermine the exclusive character of eurocentric thought and action as well as western art and culture. Autodidacts exemplify a pronounced will to do what one must do, proving their authenticity in how they point out art’s internal necessity. Just as, individuals who probe and transcend boundaries not only call to mind art’s role as an anthropological constant but also—through their divergent modes of existence—exemplify nonconformist ways of living and working.

Artists:
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Eva Beresin, Amoako Boafo, Verena Bretschneider, Cecily Brown, Nyunmiti Burton, Miriam Cahn, Alexandre Diop, Ines Doujak, Jean Dubuffet, Stefanie Erjautz, Jadé Fadojutimi, Gelitin/Gelatin, Aïcha Khorchid, Soli Kiani, Basil Kincaid, Jürgen Klauke, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Elena Koneff, Maria Lassnig, Daniel Lezama, Angelika Loderer, Claudia Märzendorfer, Jonathan Meese, Sungi Mlengeya, Tracey Moffatt, Michel Nedjar, Tony Oursler, Grayson Perry, Marc Quinn, Franz Ringel, George Rouy, Iris Sageder, Cindy Sherman, Sarah Slappey, Kiki Smith, Tal R, VALIE EXPORT, Jannis Varelas, August Walla, Franz West, Kennedy Yanko

The exhibition is on view at the ALBERTINA MODERN Museum from 16 February to 18 August 2024.

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ART & CAR COLLECTION of Heinz Swoboda and Dr. Corinne Moussong

SPARK Art Fair Vienna 2024 | MARX HALLE (spark-artfair.com)

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Iris Sageder models objects, based on mythological concepts of the loss of innocence, using traditional sculpting techniques.

After falling from grace, the “pre hominid” primate, as the closest of man’s ancestors, is suspended in a paradisiacal state.

Iris Sageder’s subjects draw inspiration from and around the theme of: The gaining of innocence – the fall from grace – the ability to understand. In plumbing the depths of this dichotomy, she chronicles her work as a series of experiments, in which form and materiality resonate with the unconscious harmonics of the soul.

“Animal embodiment, metaphors and analogies: In instinctive imagery, that goes beyond the logic of our minds, we finally see things as they are. – We see them as we are. (The imagery is behind us and in front of us: pure perception)

​As Slavoj Žižek defines it, Iris Sageder’s sculptures and pictures are akin to Looking Awry. – In observing things from an oblique perspective, we learn to see ourselves. Before being thrown out of paradise.”

Dr. Paul Divjak, 2015, S.2