Don Giovanni - Group Exhibition
12.03. - 23.04.2006
Ursula Blickle Stiftung
Curator: Dr. Gerald Matt, Co-curator: Dr. Gaby Hartel
Ursula Blickle Stiftung
Curator: Dr. Gerald Matt, Co-curator: Dr. Gaby Hartel
Noritoshi Hirakawa
Streams by the wind. Spring Fever. Filmstill, 2002
VG Bildkunst, Bonn 2006
Streams by the wind. Spring Fever. Filmstill, 2002
VG Bildkunst, Bonn 2006
Noritoshi Hirakawa
Streams by the wind. Spring Fever., Filmstill, 2002
© VBK, Wien, 2006
Streams by the wind. Spring Fever., Filmstill, 2002
© VBK, Wien, 2006
Takehito Koganezawa
NEWMEN, 1999-2000
Courtesy Wohnmaschine, Berlin
NEWMEN, 1999-2000
Courtesy Wohnmaschine, Berlin
A K Dolven
Stairs, 2002
Courtesy carlier I gebauer
Stairs, 2002
Courtesy carlier I gebauer
Ugo Rondinone
Cigarettesandwich, 2001
Courtesy Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich
Cigarettesandwich, 2001
Courtesy Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich
Doron Solomons
Solicitation, 2005
Courtesy Sommer Contemporary art, Tel-Aviv
Solicitation, 2005
Courtesy Sommer Contemporary art, Tel-Aviv
Erwin Wurm, Heizung, 2000
Courtesy Galerie Krinzinger, Wien
Courtesy Galerie Krinzinger, Wien
Don Giovanni: Two plus two equals four. Or “Lust is the only swindle I wish continuance“.
Group exhibition with: AK Dolven, Kendell Geers, Noritoshi Hirakawa, Takehito Koganezawa, Lilli und Lola, Tracey Moffatt, Vlad Monroe, Zoran Naskovski, Klaus Pobitzer, Rimini Protokoll, Ugo Rondinone, Tracey Rose, Kiki Seror, Doron Solomons, Sam Taylor-Wood, Erwin Wurm
E. T. A. Hoffmann referred to Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni as the “opera of all operas”. Kierkegaard speaks of its “sensual-erotic brilliance”. On the occasion of the Mozartjahr 2006, the Ursula Blickle Foundation starts this year’s program with an exhibition, that is dedicated to the important Austrian composer’s opera Don Giovanni. With numerous video works by contemporary artists from all over the world the exhibition at the Ursula Blickle Foundation ex-amines how the figure of Don Giovanni and his breathtaking lifestyle still remains current today.
This archetypical character always signals an ambivalent desire: the longing for pain also im-plies a longing for pleasure; cold-blooded seduction turns into a melancholy yearning for death. In the end we see that everything – even emotion – is just a masquerade.
Group exhibition with: AK Dolven, Kendell Geers, Noritoshi Hirakawa, Takehito Koganezawa, Lilli und Lola, Tracey Moffatt, Vlad Monroe, Zoran Naskovski, Klaus Pobitzer, Rimini Protokoll, Ugo Rondinone, Tracey Rose, Kiki Seror, Doron Solomons, Sam Taylor-Wood, Erwin Wurm
E. T. A. Hoffmann referred to Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni as the “opera of all operas”. Kierkegaard speaks of its “sensual-erotic brilliance”. On the occasion of the Mozartjahr 2006, the Ursula Blickle Foundation starts this year’s program with an exhibition, that is dedicated to the important Austrian composer’s opera Don Giovanni. With numerous video works by contemporary artists from all over the world the exhibition at the Ursula Blickle Foundation ex-amines how the figure of Don Giovanni and his breathtaking lifestyle still remains current today.
This archetypical character always signals an ambivalent desire: the longing for pain also im-plies a longing for pleasure; cold-blooded seduction turns into a melancholy yearning for death. In the end we see that everything – even emotion – is just a masquerade.