My favorite museum so far, The Essl-Museum
So yesterday, after visiting the monastery, church and museum in Klosterneuburg and after eating a authentic buffet put on by a peasant family (no joke) we visited The Essl-Museum, a contemporary art museum. At this time, the Essl-Museum has three exhibitions showing: WOLFGANG HERZIG - titled "A Realist turns 70," a couple named NEO RAUCH and ROSA LOY who are showing their work side by side for the first time and is titled "Behind the Gardens," and lastly the exhibition "FOCUS: ABSTRACTION."
A REALIST TURNS 70 is an exhibition that celebrates the 70th birthday of Mr. Herzig, a man who in the 1960's became popular as an artist who presented his works in a style that is the complete opposite of what The Vienna School of Realists was presenting. His works aim to show "high society" in their real and true form, rather than what they see their self to be. You can almost describe his works as "purposeful ugliness." This exhibit was by far my favorite.
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| HIGH SOCIETY |
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| a "yapper" |
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| dessert table |
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| Hard to not like this one |
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| swimming pool |
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| A pig for a daughter |
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| She is definitely a looker |
BEHIND THE GARDENS is an exhibit to showcase the works of the married couple Neo and Rosa side by side for the first time ever. Although a couple, their styles are nothing alike. Neo paints in old-master style and containing references to advertising, comic strip aesthetics and Socialist Realism whereas Losa's ambiguous paintings are devoted to the mystery of womanhood, a new femininity and a new romanticism. The one aspect both painters have in common is the often dark or disturbing feeling that their works give off, even to the point where each viewer feels the need to decipher it.
The final exhibition FOCUS: ABSTRACTION is a simple exhibition showing "some" of the Essl family's private 7,000 piece gallery of contemporary art.
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