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Thursday, 10 October 2019

Artlyst: Arnulf Rainer: 90th Birthday Exhibition Celebrated At Albertina Museum

My latest article for Artlyst previews the 90th Birthday Exhibition for Arnulf Rainer being celebrated at the Albertina Museum:

'The shape of a cross, which brings together vertical and horizontal trajectories, became Rainer’s typical and characteristic painting surface. This shape bears within it a broad range of substantive connotations such as death, mystery, and transitoriness.

Crosses and crucifixions are a thread that runs through all of Rainer’s work. Indeed, he regularly uses other visual material from Christianity, such as Roman or Byzantine images of Christ or the Madonna, and, between 1995 and 1998, produced a remarkable sequence of overpainted Bible illustrations, in which he responded to originals ranging from 10th-century illustrated manuscripts to the art of the 19th century.'

My other Artlyst articles and interviews are:
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The Innocence Mission - Evensong.

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