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Lucio Fontana: Golden Space
Between space exploration euphoria and sacred transcendence: Lucio Fontana’s Concetto Spaziale from 1966 is a…
Alighiero Boetti: Enigmatic Signs
Alighiero Boetti (1940–1994) was no doubt one of Italy’s most creative and prolific artists of…
Hermann Nitsch: Church Painter without a Church
Hermann Nitsch (1938–2022), who died last year at the age of 84, received early international acclaim and scandalised the art world on a regular basis. His work occupies a key position in…
The Power of the Sea: Cy Twombly
Expressive yet poetical: In his studio on the Gulf of Gaeta in his adopted country Italy, US-born artist Cy Twombly (1928–2011) created a series of impressive paintings. One of them is up…
François Morellet: Structures of Light
Chance and structure: the works of light art pioneer François Morellet alternate between geometric precision and witty shifts of meaning. The 2005 installation Lunatique neonly - 16 quarts de cercle n°5 is…
Vienna, eSeL and the Arts
“Endless Pets” installation by Andrea Heyer at the artist-run space “Raumstation”, 2018 © eSeL He’s not sure about the term “artist”. He prefers to say: “I do projects.” Understatement, a social instinct, and…
Shine on You Crazy Diamond
It is nature’s hardest natural substance; cutting reveals unique glimpses of lustre, brilliance and fire, wealth and value are locked in minimum form. It is a subject of fascination: What is it…
Modern Art
20 years of VIENNA ART WEEK
Is there anything in Vienna apart from Mozart, Sissi and Schönbrunn? Of course there is! When it comes to art, VIENNA ART WEEK and its Artistic Director, Robert Punkenhofer, have been trying…
