Kunsthalle Wien
Wien
Museumsplatz 1
+43 1 521891201 FAX +43 1 521891217
WEB
Raymond Pettibon
dal 11/10/2006 al 24/2/2007

Segnalato da

Katharina Murschetz



 
calendario eventi  :: 




11/10/2006

Raymond Pettibon

Kunsthalle Wien, Wien

With more than 500 drawings and several video works, the Kunsthalle Wien presents the first major Pettibon retrospective in Austria for which the artist created a new, 15-meter wall painting. Pettibon is one of the most thorough chroniclers of American milieus of popular culture.


comunicato stampa

Whatever it is you're looking for you won't find it here

US artist Raymond Pettibon is one of the most thorough chroniclers of American milieus of popular culture. His black and white drawings with occasional blood-red drip lines unfold an enigmatic comics counterworld which, in its grotesque distortions, exposes hidden truths about the USA without revealing all its mystery.

Pettibon became known for his flyers, concert posters, and record covers for Californian punk bands. But he soon distanced himself from the local hardcore scene and developed his “trage'die humaine" in books and single sheets whose disturbing combination of image and text critically questions popular myths. Pettibon has drawn his inspiration from the US design of the thirties and forties as well as the hippies’ Flower Power dreams which he, with great glee, transformed into bloody massacre scenes. His cast includes both superheroes and supervillains (Superman, Jesus, Stalin, etc.), as well as a number of key motifs (e.g. trains, baseball players) which he “remixes" in infinite variations.

With more than 500 drawings and several video works, the Kunsthalle Wien presents the first major Pettibon retrospective in Austria for which the artist created a new, 15-meter wall painting.

Thursday 12 October, 2006, 10 am: press conference

The artist will attend the press conference

Thursday 12 October, 2006, 7 pm: opening

Kunsthalle Wien
Museumsplatz 1 - Wien

IN ARCHIVIO [88]
Political Populism
dal 5/11/2015 al 6/2/2015

Attiva la tua LINEA DIRETTA con questa sede