Exhibition programme 2014 Exhibition programme 2014

Exhibition programme 2014
Eric Fischl
Friends, Lovers and other Constellations
13.2. - 18.5. 2014
The American painter, graphic artist and sculptor Eric Fischl (* 1948 in New York) is one of the most
important representatives of contemporary figuration. His work is characterised by a style linked
with American realism, Fischl's motifs are often derived from domestic contexts. They describe the
everyday and the ordinary, show people in constellations as couples or in interaction, usually
scantily clad to nude in an atmosphere dominated by sexuality. The viewer is incorporated into this
pictorial world created by Fischl in the role of the voyeur.
The exhibit concentrates on Eric Fischl's graphic works and encompasses a cross-section of his work.
In addition to print graphics, works on glassine and chrome coat paper, including the well-known
bathing and beach scenes, several bronze sculptures of the artist are on display and complement the
posing figures of the watercolours.
Eric Fischl
Untitled, 2008
Oil on chromecoat
© Courtesy of the artist and Jablonka Galerie,
Cologne
Eric Fischl
The Critics, 1979
Oil on Glassine
© Courtesy of the artist and Jablonka Galerie,
Cologne
Eric Fischl
Scences and Sequences: Dream, 1986
Monotype
© Courtesy of the artist and Jablonka
Galerie, Cologne
Duke Albert of Saxon Teschen
Life between Dürer and Napoleon
14.3. - 29.6.2014
The exhibit Duke Albert of Saxon Teschen - Life between Dürer and Napoleon shows around 200
top-class masterpieces from the collection of the Albertina in the context of the chequered and
exciting life story of its founders, Prince Albert of Saxony, Duke of Teschen and Archduchess Marie
Christine. The large-scale presentation unites the highlights of the collection, from Michelangelo
through Rembrandt and Rubens to Caspar David Friedrich. The centrepiece of the Albertina, Dürer's
famous "Young Hare", is now once again accessible to an interested public in the context of this
exhibit after a decade-long period of grace.
The stations in life of the founders of the collection, including Dresden, Rome, Paris, Brussels and
Vienna, present the leading centres of art and politics, and in the process provide insight into the
multi-layered networks of collectors and art dealers, the feudal life of the European aristocracy, as
well as the political and intellectual reorientation under the auspices of the Enlightenment.
Albrecht Dürer
Feldhase, 1502
Aquarell und Deckfarben, Pinsel, mit Deckweiß
erhöht
Albertina, Wien
Anonym
Herzog Albert von Sachsen - Teschen mit dem
Plan der Schlacht von Maxen, 1777
Öl auf Leinwand
Albertina, Wien
(Dauerleihgabe des Kunsthistorischen Museums
Wien, Gemäldegalerie)
Alexandre Roslin
Erzherzogin Marie Christine, 1778
Öl auf Leinwand
Albertina, Wien
(Dauerleihgabe der Oesterreichischen
Nationalbank)
Blow-Up
Michelangelo Antonionis cult film and Photography
10.5. - 24.8.2014
Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 cult film Blow-Up and its various references to photography are the
focus of the Albertina photo exhibit of the same name. Blow-Up occupies a unique position, not
only in the history of film, but also in the history of photography. There is hardly another feature
film that has shown the diverse areas of photography in such a differentiated fashion, and which
attempts to fathom them in such a detailed and timeless manner. The photographic spectrum in
Blow-Up is accordingly broad, extending from fashion photography through social reporting and
pop art to abstract photography. The Blow-Up exhibit presents these diverse themes and their
relation to one another in several chapters. In addition to film stills, both works that can actually be
seen in Blow-Up and photographs illuminating the cultural and artistic context of the film
production, London of the Swinging Sixties, will be shown.
Veruschka von Lehndorff mit David Hemmings in
Blow Up (Regie: Michelangelo Antonioni), 1966,
film still, Foto: Arthur Evans, Privatsammlung
Wien, Courtesy: Neue Visionen Filmverleih
GmbH
David Hemmings in Blow Up (Regie:
Michelangelo Antonioni), 1966, film still, Foto:
Arthur Evans, Privatsammlung Wien, Courtesy:
Neue Visionen Filmverleih GmbH
David Hemmings in Blow Up (Regie:
Michelangelo Antonioni), 1966, film still, Foto:
Arthur Evans, Privatsammlung Wien, Courtesy:
Neue Visionen Filmverleih GmbH
Alex Katz
24.5. - 14.9. 2014
Alex Katz ranks among today’s most important US artists. He has been considered the key figure of
a self-reflective US tradition of painting characterized by a unison of rationality, sensuality, and
abstraction. Turning them into icons, as it were, the artist renders ostensibly passionless motifs
from the New York intellectual scene and art world as well as the well-off leisure-oriented society in
monumental formats. Another emphasis lies on the depiction of idyllic landscapes of Maine, in the
Northeast of the United States, which radiate both immediacy and an air of aloofness.
Alex Katz
Study for Mary Tyler Moore, 2000
Aquarell
Albertina, Wien
© Bildrecht, Wien, 2013
Alex Katz
Black Hat #2, 2010
Öl auf Leinwand
Albertina, Sammlung Batliner
© Bildrecht, Wien, 2013
Alex Katz
Large Magnolia, 2002
Kohle, rote Kreide auf perforiertem braunem
Papier
Dauerleihgabe der Österreichischen LudwigStiftung für Kunst und Wissenschaft
© Bildrecht, Wien, 2013
Arnulf Rainer Retrospective
3.9.2014 - 6.1.2015
His revisions developed in the 1950s made the artist Arnulf Rainer, born in 1929 in Baden near
Vienna, known throughout the world. The Albertina honours the internationally renowned artist on
the occasion of his 85th birthday with a comprehensive retrospective, in which important stations of
his complex artistic development are presented through key works.
Rainer's intensive search for new artistic paths, as well as his fascinating strategies and
experimental processes make him one of the most influential living artists of the present.
Arnulf Rainer
Müde Pose I, 1975
Öl auf Fotografie auf Holz
Albertina, Wien
Arnulf Rainer
Schwarze Rinnen, 1974
Öl und Kohle auf Fotografie, gekratzt, auf Holz
montiert
Albertina, Wien
Arnulf Rainer
Schranken, 1974-75
Ölkreide, Öl auf Fotografie auf Holz
Albertina, Wien
Joan Miró
12.9.2014 - 11.1.2015
With his imaginative pictorial motifs, Joan Miró is one of the most popular artists of the
20th century. The Albertina is dedicating a solo exhibition to the Catalonian artist containing
around 100 paintings, drawings and objects, which strives to emphasise the poetic quality of the
famous Surrealist.
Miró's painting is characterised by a sense of lightness and spontaneity. He looks upon the world
with a carefree, almost childish fascination for all things. His unmistakable pictorial language is as
magical as it is universal. Moons, stars and comets, eyes and insects, birds and women populate his
paintings and are among the most recognisable elements of his art. Miró's works provide insight
into his poetic perception and interpretation of the original, of that which is actually essential in
things, the world and the universe.
Joan Miró
Verwandlung, 1936
Gouache und Collage
Albertina, Wien - Sammlung Batliner
© Bildrecht, Wien, 2013
Joan Miró
Frau vor der Sonne, 1949
Öl auf Leinwand
Albertina, Wien - Sammlung Batliner
© Bildrecht, Wien, 2013
Joan Miró
Vögel und Insekten, 1938
Öl auf Leinwand
Albertina, Wien - Sammlung Batliner
© Bildrecht, Wien, 2013