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UNINHABITED VISIONS  - two exhibitions on photography and architecture in Vienna

UNINHABITED VISIONS – two exhibitions on photography and architecture in Vienna

Share Before photography was discovered, buildings were mediated through painting – famous museums, unable to collect monuments, had collected paintings of them. One of the oldest museums in Europe, The Teylers Museum in Netherlands, whose display has been unchanged for the last 200 years, has paintings of churches exhibited next to fossils, rocks, ancient prints...
Unnatural History Museum - Jan Švankmajer in gallery Kerstin Engholm, Vienna

Unnatural History Museum – Jan Švankmajer in gallery Kerstin Engholm, Vienna

Share This show came as a surprise. Jan Švankmajer, worldwide renowned filmmaker, is exhibiting in a commercial Viennese gallery. And he is not exhibiting props or film stills, he isn’t screening a film either. He is showing a whole oeuvre of artworks, a whole parallel artistic universe that kept growing behind the backdrop of his...