5 October 2007 – 3 February 2008

True Romance

Allegories of Love from the Renaissance to the Present
"True Romance" is the Kunsthalle Wien's big autumn exhibition in the general theme of LOVE, DEATH and TRAUMA.
The joint project with the Kunsthalle zu Kiel and the Museum Villa Stuck, Munich will celebrate its "premiere" in autumn with the opening at the Kunsthalle Wien.
In addition to major contemporary artists such as Marina Abramovic, Tracey Emin, VALIE EXPORT, Nan Goldin, Martin Kippenberger, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Cy Twombly (and many more) works byGiorgione, Pieter de Hooch, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Adriaen van der Werff, and others can be seen.

When we speak of love, an abundance of ideal notions and counter-notions instantly comes to mind. We think of burning passion and of feelings that have become cold, of being ablaze with emotion or of a heart frozen to ice. Elevated to celestial heights or plunging into the chasms of despair: these common metaphors of the polarities of love are not inventions of today’s advertising and film industries. Their roots reach far back to the beginnings of early modern western culture. The exhibition True Romance makes palpable how the phenomenon of love has been articulated in the field of art.

Address

KUNSTHALLE Wien
MuseumsQuartier Museumsplatz 1
1070 Wien
phone +43 1 521 89 12 01
http://www.kunsthallewien.at

Opening Hours

Daily 10 a.m. - 7 p.m., Thursday 10 a.m. - 10 p.m.

"project space" at the Karlsplatz.

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