[Exhibitions of the Museum Gugging 2009 and 2010]
2010
Preview:
10/6 2010, opening of the exhibitions:
"judith & shields.!",
"sava.! sekulic" and
"gugging classics 4.!"
Current:
3/26 2010 - 9/26 2010:
"aloïse.! corbaz",
"hauser's frauen.!" and the permanent collection
"gugging classics 3.!"
"aloïse.! corbaz"
The Swiss artist Aloïse CORBAZ (1886-1964), whose artworks were created exclusively during her 40-year-long stay in a psychiatric institution, is the most well known woman in → Art Brut. Her main motif was herself. Her depictions of love stories, personal and fictional, are romantic, glorified and carried by the notion of ultimate wish-fulfilment in love. The fantastic inner world of the painter can be discovered from her early, gentle efforts to the masterpiece of the exhibition, the twelve meters long scroll painting "Rouleau de la nativité".
Very early on, Johann HAUSER (1926-1996) became something of a star among the Gugging Artists. His concise strokes were highly appraised by other artists - from Jean DUBUFFET to Arnulf RAINER – and his art soon became acclaimed. Among Hauser’s motifs one stood out in particular: the woman. Hauser very explicitly drew eroticised women with ostentatiously enlarged sexual characteristics. He reached his zenith is the summer of 1986 with “Three Women”, three drawings which have now been returned to Gugging and are open for public viewing.
Corbaz and Hauser created two completely differing views of women: romantically glorified and sexualised. Two Art Brut versions of the female image that couldn’t be any more diverging from each other, and yet they complement each other perfectly in these exhibitions.
"gugging classics 3.!"
The exhibition “gugging classics 3.!” permanently displays works by Gugging Artists, partly on loan from the Gugging Artists’ Private Foundation.
2009
9/17
Re-opening of the Museum Gugging
9/18 2009 - 3/14 2010
"duo.! anton dobay – oswald tschirtner" and
"liberty.! - african american artists" » more