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Sammlung Hubert Looser - Ausstellung: Bank Austria Kunstforum, Wien, 2012

English, German · Hardback

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Mit ihren Schwerpunkten im Abstrakten Expressionismus, in der Minimal Art sowie der Arte povera zählt die Fondation Hubert Looser zu den herausragenden Privatsammlungen moderner und zeitgenössischer Kunst im Schweizer Raum. Erstmals werden zahlreiche Werkgruppen aus der rund 400 Werke umfassenden Sammlung öffentlich präsentiert, darunter von Willem de Kooning, John Chamberlain, Cy Twombly, David Smith, Agnes Martin und Giuseppe Penone zusammen mit Einzelwerken etwa von Arshile Gorky, Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso und Anselm Kiefer. Besonders augenfällig ist der Bezug der Werke untereinander. Korrespondenzen und Wahlverwandtschaften werden ebenso sichtbar wie zentrale Sammlungsaspekte, etwa die malerische Geste und Dominanz der reinen Linie sowie das Prozesshafte in der Materie und das mythisch Archaische in der Natur. Die Publikation gewährt Einblick in das private Leben mit Kunst.
 
Ausstellung: Bank Austria Kunstforum, Wien 26.4.-15.7.2012
 

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Ingried Brugger ist Direktorin des Bank Austria Kunstforums in Wien.

Summary

With its emphasis on Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, and Arte Povera, the Fondation Hubert Looser is one of the most outstanding private collections of modern and contemporary art in Switzerland. This is the first time that numerous groups of works from the collection’s approximately four hundred exhibits are being presented in public, including Willem de Kooning, John Chamberlain, Cy Twombly, David Smith, Agnes Martin, and Giuseppe Penone, as well as individual pieces by artists such as Arshile Gorky, Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso, and Anselm Kiefer. Especially remarkable is the way the works communicate with each other. Dialogues, constellations, and elective affinities among paintings, sculptures, and drawings become visible, as do the central aspects of the collection: the painterly gesture, the dominance of pure line, as well as the processual character of material and the mythical, archaic side of nature. This book provides insight into a private life with art.
 
Exhibition schedule: Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna, April 26–July 15, 2012
 

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Authors Evely Benesch, Ingried Brugger, Heik Eipeldauer, Lisa u a Kreil, Hubert Looser
Assisted by Ingrie Brugger (Editor), Ingried Brugger (Editor), Steininger (Editor), Florian Steininger (Editor)
Publisher Hatje Cantz Verlag
 
Languages English, German
Product format Hardback
Released 01.05.2012
 
EAN 9783775732352
ISBN 978-3-7757-3235-2
No. of pages 248
Dimensions 251 mm x 299 mm x 26 mm
Weight 1894 g
Illustrations 230 Abb.
Series Zeitgenössische Kunst
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art
Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Plastic arts

Verstehen, Künste, Bildende Kunst allgemein, Abstrakter Expressionismus, minimal art, Hubert, Arte Povera, Looser, Abstract Expressionism

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