Balthasar Klossowski de RolaBalthasar Klossowski de Rola17.02. - 19.06.2016In spring 2016 the Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien is putting on a retrospective for the first time in Austria devoted to the work of Balthasar Klossowksi de Rolas, called »Balthus« – an exhibition that aims to anchor Balthus’s oeuvre within all the influences that affected it: his first confrontation with the quattrocento, his works in the milieu of Surrealism and Neue Sachlichkeit between France, the German-speaking regions and Italy, and then the preoccupation with East Asian art in his later work. Balthus, who never questioned objectivity and cultivated his own style of »another Modernism« remote from the development of all avant-garde movements, is approached in this project through his most important themes: the landscape expressed in the contrasting polarities of urban landscape and pastoral nature; the portrait between classical portrait and multiple figural composition; and lastly the female nude, alternating between intimate toilette portrayals and complex compositions in the interior.
Within a painting style that is consistently structured and permits no expressionist elements whatever, one can explore the mysterious, archaic and also uncanny aura that is peculiar to Balthus, and wander through worlds of images whose forms conjure up the fantasies of our childhood – and not avoiding a certain cruelty. The exhibition investigates this judgement of Balthus as an artist remote from all norms – Balthus, who uses subtle nuances to create a frozen, eerily cryptic harmony, as he formulates himself: »I have always felt the need to search for the extraordinary in the ordinary, to suggest and not determine, always to leave something enigmatic in my pictures.« This exhibition is a cooperation with the Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome.Curators: Evelyn Bensch, Cécile Debray, Matteo Lafranconiback
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Bank Austria KunstforumWells Fargo CenterFreyung 81010Wien, AustriaBank Austria KunstforumWells Fargo CenterFreyung 81010Wien, AustriaBalthasar Klossowski de RolaBalthasar Klossowski de Rola17.02. - 19.06.2016In spring 2016 the Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien is putting on a retrospective for the first time in Austria devoted to the work of Balthasar Klossowksi de Rolas, called »Balthus« – an exhibition that aims to anchor Balthus’s oeuvre within all the influences that affected it: his first confrontation with the quattrocento, his works in the milieu of Surrealism and Neue Sachlichkeit between France, the German-speaking regions and Italy, and then the preoccupation with East Asian art in his later work. Balthus, who never questioned objectivity and cultivated his own style of »another Modernism« remote from the development of all avant-garde movements, is approached in this project through his most important themes: the landscape expressed in the contrasting polarities of urban landscape and pastoral nature; the portrait between classical portrait and multiple figural composition; and lastly the female nude, alternating between intimate toilette portrayals and complex compositions in the interior.
Within a painting style that is consistently structured and permits no expressionist elements whatever, one can explore the mysterious, archaic and also uncanny aura that is peculiar to Balthus, and wander through worlds of images whose forms conjure up the fantasies of our childhood – and not avoiding a certain cruelty. The exhibition investigates this judgement of Balthus as an artist remote from all norms – Balthus, who uses subtle nuances to create a frozen, eerily cryptic harmony, as he formulates himself: »I have always felt the need to search for the extraordinary in the ordinary, to suggest and not determine, always to leave something enigmatic in my pictures.« This exhibition is a cooperation with the Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome.Curators: Evelyn Bensch, Cécile Debray, Matteo Lafranconiback Book tickets
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