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Installation, 2009
Loaned to
GAM Galleria d'Arte Moderna
Description
large canvas remains of a shirt and a table with bloody clothes from Aktion 122 and Aktion 123
Dimensions
Dimensione variabile
No. Elements
1
Object Type
installazione
Credits
©Hermann Nitsch - Courtesy GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Torino - Proprietà della Fondazione per l'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT
The Artist
Nitsch’s work began with the modified concept of color, developed in painting from the postwar period, where color was not only a chromatic value, but also a material, a fluid onto which the gesture could be imprinted, using a brush or a spatula.
Inspired by this renewed body of color, Nitsch developed paintings created through the Schüttbild (splatter painting) method, applying a stream of color to a raw canvas, hung vertically. These works compositionally exploit the explosion of the scribble and the downward drips.
After these first experiments, the aspect of the action that determines the painting gradually takes on growing importance, culminating in his “Orgien Mysterien Theater.” [...]
Related artworks
GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino
Via Magenta, 31
10128 Torino
