Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Vienna showcases city's shock 'Actionist' art movement

A man performs a work by Austrian "Actionist" Hermann Nitsch during the opening of his exhibition at Theater Museum in Vienna, Austria on March 25, 2015 As artists, they pushed the limits, bathing in blood, mud and urine. Vienna's famed "Actionists", whose avant garde movement may be the most radical in contemporary art, are the focus of a new exhibition in their home city. "Vienna Actionism" shied away from little -- and sometimes landed the artists in jail. "They sought a direct confrontation with reality, both physical and psychological, to limits that were very difficult to tolerate," said Eva Badura-Triska, curator of "My Body is the Event" at Vienna's Museum of Modern Art (Mumok).








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