Kurt Kren - Uneasiness On Film in Vienna
The First Art Newspaper on the Net    Established in 1996 Saturday, November 9, 2024


Kurt Kren - Uneasiness On Film in Vienna
Kurt Kren, 2/60 48 Heads from the Szondi Test (detail), Private Collection, Vienna; © VBK Wien, 2006.



VIENNA, AUSTRIA.-Kurt Kren (1929-1998) counts among the most significant representatives of the international film "avant garde". Considered a pathfinder for the structural film movement, he ruthlessly criticized the crusty social structure of post-war Austria through his uncompromising artistic demeanor. Kurt Kren’s early experimental films treated form and thematic material of the medium of film and analyzed perceptual processes so as to render common sights suffused with subversion.

Collaboration with the Viennese Activists Otto Muehl and Guenter Brus led to a radicalization of his esthetic and existential positions. This partnership reached its climactic apogee in 1968 with the "happening" known as "Art and Revolution" in the University of Vienna. Kren moved to the USA. He is one of the few Austrian artists to have attained international cult status during their lifetime.

The Augarten Atelier accords Kurt Kren his first monographic exhibition in a museum context and thereby continues its series of exhibitions centered around the classics of Austrian "avant garde". Focus of the exhibit is on the filmmaker’s early work, including the cinematographic experience of collaboration with his artistic comrades such as the Vienna Activists. In addition to selected film clips, plans, sketches and photographs are on display.










Today's News

May 11, 2006

Charles Sheeler: Across Media at National Gallery of Art

Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Sells For $11.7 Million

Viennese Actionism - The Hummel Collection

Gilbert & George - Sonofagod at Bonnefantenmuseum

Max Beckmann - The Watercolors and Pastels

Kurt Kren - Uneasiness On Film in Vienna

The Quiet of Dissolution - Sonja Braas

Spears Dumbfounded with Sculpture of Her Giving Birth

Mickey Mouse's Genitals, Plastic Cats with Hitler Moustaches

Caves in Lascaux Invaded by Strange White Fungus

Rolling Stones' Wyman to Show Photos for the First Time

Several Sculptors Present at New York's SculptureCenter

McCord Museum's Web Game Wins Prize!




Museums, Exhibits, Artists, Milestones, Digital Art, Architecture, Photography,
Photographers, Special Photos, Special Reports, Featured Stories, Auctions, Art Fairs,
Anecdotes, Art Quiz, Education, Mythology, 3D Images, Last Week, .

 



Founder:
Ignacio Villarreal
(1941 - 2019)
Editor & Publisher: Jose Villarreal
Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda Ramírez
Writer: Ofelia Zurbia Betancourt

Royalville Communications, Inc
produces:

ignaciovillarreal.org juncodelavega.com facundocabral-elfinal.org
Founder's Site. Hommage
to a Mexican poet.
Hommage
       

The First Art Newspaper on the Net. The Best Versions Of Ave Maria Song Junco de la Vega Site Ignacio Villarreal Site
Tell a Friend
Dear User, please complete the form below in order to recommend the Artdaily newsletter to someone you know.
Please complete all fields marked *.
Sending Mail
Sending Successful