calendario eventi  :: 

X

23/1/2009

Gunter Brus

Museum der Moderne - Rupertinum, Salzburg

Since the foundation of the Rupertinum the collection of the MdMSALZBURG has focused on the multifaceted oeuvre of Günter Brus.
Partial aspects of the comprehensive artistic work of Brus have been presented before in various exhibitions, and now, on the occasion of the artist’s 70th birthday, the Museum der Moderne dedicates a small “retrospective” to the artist.

Starting with rare early portrait studies of the 1960s, the exhibition features the photographic oeuvre of Günter Brus which accompanied his actionist performances and was considered scandalous at the time.

After his last action, called “Zerreißprobe” (“Tearing Apart”) performed in Munich in 1970, Günter Brus started to use his drawings and poems as a means of developing his destructive body art and hallucinatory phantasmagorias beyond his own physis.
Brus’ large-format drawings from the 1970s and 1980s – called Häute” (“Skins”) by the artist – approach a baroque and preciously coloured pictorial composition with this impetus.

The MdMSALZBURG shows complex picture-text combinations, numerous individual sheets from the artist’s extensive etchings as well as whole cycles of etchings and lithographs. Sketches of invitations and posters made by Brus for his exhibitions at the Rupertinum bear testimony to the museum’s longstanding and intensive collaboration with the artist.

Image: Günter Brus, aus der Serie Selbstbemalung II, 1964, s/w Fotografie, MdM Salzburg

Press contact
Christine Forstner
T +43.662 84 22 20-601 F +43.662 84 22 20-701 christine.forstner@mdmsalzburg.at

Museum der Moderne Rupertinum
Wiener Philharmoniker Gasse 9 - 5020 Salzburg
Hours
tuesday to sunday: 10.00 a.m.- 06.00 p.m.
wednesday: 10.00 a.m. - 08.00 p.m.
monday: closed

stampa

permanent link