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ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO AUSTRIACO Y PINTURA DE LA POSGUERRA: COLECCIÓN ESSL
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO), México
05. October 2005 - 29. December 2005

Excepts from Sonja Traar's text which complements the exhibition catalog.

The human figure is present in contemporary art with renewed gusto particularly since the turn of the 21st Century. The works on display by Alex Katz (an American pioneer), Katrin Plavcak, Muntean & Rosenblum, and Elke Krystufek reveal the various ways artists have addressed this issue. The renowned Austrian painter Maria Lassnig is present in the exhibition through two paintings in which her absolutely independent treatment can be evidenced. A lack of distance, social reality, and definition by the current generation on its standing in life, determine the works' highly variable content, as well as the denial of a narration (in Alex Katz). Gottfried Helnwein digresses from fleeting contemplation with his Self-portrait: the canvas on display prompts an immediate, impulsive reaction...

Complete text at artisthelnwein.com

Sieried Anzinger
Karel Appel
Georg Baselitz
Herbert Brandl
Günter Brus
Jim Dine
Sam Francis
Hans Hartung
Gottfried Helnwein
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Asger Jorn
Martha Jungwirth
Alex Katz
Martin Kippenberger
Elke Krystufeek
Maria Lassnig
Markus Lüpertz
Jürgen Messensee
Josef Mikl
Muntean / Rosenblum
Hermann Nitsch
Katrin Plavcak
Arnulf Rainer
Gerhard Richter
Franz Ringel
Hubert Scheibl
Pierre Soulages
Hans Staudacher
Antoni Tàpies
Max Weiler
Franz West


		05. October 2005 Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey www.marco.org.mx The Essl Collection of Contemporary Art AUSTRIAN CONTEMPORARY ART AND POST-WAR PAINTING: THE ESSL COLLECTION Group Show The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey presents the exhibition Austrian Contemporary Art and Post-war Painting: The Essl Collection, a seminal encounter with the most commanding pictorial propositions engendered in the second half of the 2Oth century. Gottfried Helnwein digresses from fleeting contemplation with his Self-portrait: the canvas on display prompts an immediate, impulsive reaction...


		AUSTRIAN CONTEMPORARY ART AND POST-WAR PAINTING: THE ESSL COLLECTION Excepts from Sonja Traar's text which complements the exhibition catalog.


		Aspects of the figure The human figure is present in contemporary art with renewed gusto particularly since the turn of the 21st Century. The works on display by Alex Katz (an American pioneer), Katrin Plavcak, Muntean & Rosenblum, and Elke Krystufek reveal the various ways artists have addressed this issue. The renowned Austrian painter Maria Lassnig is present in the exhibition through two paintings in which her absolutely independent treatment can be evidenced. A lack of distance, social reality, and definition by the current generation on its standing in life, determine the works' highly variable content, as well as the denial of a narration (in Alex Katz). Gottfried Helnwein digresses from fleeting contemplation with his Self-portrait: the canvas on display prompts an immediate, impulsive reaction...


		Complete text at artisthelnwein.com www.artisthelnwein.com


		Artistas participantes Sieried Anzinger Karel Appel Georg Baselitz Herbert Brandl Günter Brus Jim Dine Sam Francis Hans Hartung Gottfried Helnwein Friedensreich Hundertwasser Asger Jorn Martha Jungwirth Alex Katz Martin Kippenberger Elke Krystufeek Maria Lassnig Markus Lüpertz Jürgen Messensee Josef Mikl Muntean / Rosenblum Hermann Nitsch Katrin Plavcak Arnulf Rainer Gerhard Richter Franz Ringel Hubert Scheibl Pierre Soulages Hans Staudacher Antoni Tàpies Max Weiler Franz West


05. October 2005	Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey	The Essl Collection of Contemporary Art