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Rupertinum Museum of Modern Art, Salzburg
Die Kunst im Spiegel der Zeitenwende (Art at the Dawn of a New Era). Painting, Graphics, Sculpture and Photography around 1900
June 7 - October26, 2008
During the last decades of the 19th and the first decades of the 20th century the course was set for a new society and for the development of new art forms. On the one hand traditional pictorial schemata were continued well into the Secessionist period, and on the other hand new revolutionary pictorial concepts were introduced already before the turn of the 20th century.
Rebecca Horn
Love and Hate
June 21 – September 21, 2008
The artist’s work, which comprises installations, performances, sculptural room installations, kinetic objects, poetic texts, films and drawings, is often on the borderline between different genres of art. Rebecca Horn has won international recognition as one of the most renowned German female artists.
Nobuyoshi Araki
October 4 , 2008 January 11, 2009
The Japanese photographer was born in Tokyo in 1940, where he still lives and works today. After studying photography from 1959 to 1963 he started to work for an advertising company. Inspired by the black and white photography of artists such as Brassai or Henri Cartier-Bresson he started his own career in the 1960s and 1970s with pictures taken in the streets, photographs of his home town and his personal, intimate environment. A collection of small format b/w photographs, which are presented to the public for the very first time, were also created during this period. This early series of works is complemented by more recent black and white photographs from a cycle which shows the photographer Araki as he has become world-famous: as a narrator of erotic scenes and with pictures of females full of sexual innuendo. The exhibition is organised jointly by the MdM Salzburg and the newly established Leica Gallery Salzburg.
System Mensch (System Man)
Works from the Collection of the Photo Gallery
November 8, 2008 - February 2009
The image of man is a central and recurring theme in Austrian art, either in the form of the human body serving as means and expression of artistic design, or the idea of human identity, characterized by perceptions, emotions and mental state. Questions pertaining to the possibilities of pictorial language to express physicalness, the identity of physique and psyche are constant themes in the discussion of contemporary photographic art. Man as an integral part of a world constructed by man, as a system, an interface for media and discussions on technology is becoming a communication tool in real or virtual worlds. With a selection of works from the Austrian Photo Gallery, including artists such as Wolfgang Reichmann, Elke Krystufek and Erwin Wurm, the exhibition follows this perception of the functional system man.
Rupertinum Museum of Modern Art, Salzburg
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