THE ART OF THE GREEN PATH
On July 6th, 2011, Yuko Ikewada (painter and Hundertwassers wife from 1962-1966) opened the Jubilee Exhibition in the Kunsthaus Vienna. The Museum Hundertwasser presents in a permanent exhibition a unique cross-section of the oeuvre of the Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928–2000), including key paintings as well as graphic works, applied art, architectural designs and examples of the artist’s ecological commitment.
With this exhibition KUNST HAUS WIEN not just honours the artist on whose philosophy and artistic principles this institution is largely based, but gives you the unique opportunity to enjoy the entire building filled with the spirit of Hundertwasser. The 20th anniversary of KUNST HAUS WIEN offers an occasion for this special exhibition project. For a period of 4 months, all of KUNST HAUS WIEN will thus be devoted to Friedensreich Hundertwasser.
Hundertwasser – The Art Of The Green Path
July, 7th – November, 6th 2011
The time is ripe for a renaissance of Friedensreich Hundertwasser, for a comprehensive tribute to this innovative artist and ecological visionary. This biographic and thematic exhibition spotlights significant junctures in his life and work which, taken together, convey an overall impression of Hundertwasser as a person and as an artist and serve as signposts to the intellectual and artistic cosmos of an original thinker and pioneer – a peacemaker between human beings and nature, who placed his art and his life in the service of the green path.
In 13 stations, the exhibition takes us on a journey to selected focal points of Hunderwasser’s artistic life: important times in Vienna, Paris, Hamburg, Venice and Japan, the legendary Otto Wagner attic studio on Spiegelgasse in Vienna, Hunderwasser’s artistic actions protesting the rigidity of architecture, the “Regentag” motif as a key to his universe, and finally, New Zealand – his second home and last paradise. Thus, this jubilee exhibition opens up a pathway to a rediscovery of Hundertwasser, whose ideas and pioneering actions are reflected in today’s ecological trends.
Combined ticket for Museum Hundertwasser + exhibition “Hundertwasser – The Art of the Green Path”:
Adults: € 10.00
Children 10 years and younger: free
Young people 11-18 years: € 5.00
upcoming exhibition Winter 2011/2012: HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON
16th of November 2011 – 26th of February 2012: With his extensive photographic oeuvre and his book The Decisive Moment, published in 1952, Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908 – 2004) has influenced generations of photographers. In this exhibition, which is devoted to his journeys to India, the USA and Russia, KUNST HAUS WIEN focuses on a little known aspect of this co-founder of the Magnum photo agency.
God help me, I put aside a whole afternoon to friuge this out.