culture & religion

Glossy Treasures From The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection

Special exhibition in the old Gallery in Graz in Renaissance and Baroque enjoyed a unique arts and crafts. Inexhaustible inventiveness and sophisticated sense of form gave rise to the most amazing products. You extend far beyond everyday and served alone the lust of the eye was the first for the epoch under the five senses, the sense of sight. So were not pure commodities manufactured, but created works of art of perfection precious showpieces, a literally brilliant chapter of European collecting culture was opened and a nucleus of the modern Museum being developed: the kunstkammer. Constantly to multiply them, princely as patrician collector spared no expense. as a relevant resource throughout. Again, the goldsmiths of that epoch the pleasure of the rich ornament linked refined craft technique. Exotic and bizarre were connected with special pleasure, witnessed the popular shell cups.

Joined by the products of human craftsmanship to the whims of nature and reflected out the point of view of the time the diversity of the universe against. The workshops of the Southern art cities of Augsburg and Nuremberg have played in this field play a key role. Alone the Augsburg splendor”has become proverbial. With their numerous, created between the High Renaissance and Baroque works, the goldsmiths of the Fugger city blinded the courts of Europe. Of 30 selected works from the Thyssen-Bornemisza collections should”bear witness, the universal Museum Joanneum in the frame shows a special exhibition in Schloss Eggenberg 2010. Schloss Eggenberg, old Gallery runtime: 07.05.2010-31.10.2010 opening: 06.05.2010, 19: 00 curator: Ulrich Becker information: + 43-316/583264-9532

Marlis Albrecht – At The Window

The wonderful world in wax, to meet Wood and pigments by Marlis Albrecht, a picture of Marlis Albrecht is to pass to an open window. It is currently us viewers a scene, a scene, you immediately emotionally and with an eye premium picks up, and in proceeding, it is then continued. On the imaging plates by Marlis Albrecht, which are saturated with color, wax, and various other materials, a wonderful snapshot met, an open, one that has nothing to hide, but also anything can happen. A scenario that can flow as freely as the heavy, hot wax, which the artist has chosen to be “their” material, their language, in his narrative mode. And I’m unobserved as I, look, over and over again. Enjoy, Spektanteiner alien world, a tete a-tete or a pas de deux or simply to watch a group of deep men and numbers not less than women, who enjoy about the species ‘Guy’ (there was but a spark secret admiration on the feminine side for the one or the other warhorse?). The magic of Albrechtscher painting lies in the freedom of the moment and open interpretation.

It would be far too clumsy, to deliver a finished story. No solutions, no railing where you are visually could shimmy through the image, and certainly no ready-made storylines! Never served them in their “Still Lifes” common cliches, but created new seconds. The artist is thereby loose and sassy with ad, layout and color scheme. You pour, paints, scratch out, searches, and finds. “Representation of pure” one might say, where this is not entirely true. Because in her love to represent Marlies Albrecht lost delicately, such as in the ornamentation of a garment, or in the detailed account of one of their typical wax faces. It reflects in it details of a realistic picture, which translates it into their design language and has embraced, full individual poetry.