ART VIENNA 2024
September 20 to 22, 2024
Orangerie Schoenbrunn
Anfahrt
The series "Unattainable Beauty" addresses the unrealistic ideals of beauty that continue to be conveyed through advertising and social media, despite contrary movements in recent years. The perfect representations of the advertising industry create pressure to conform to a certain body type or fashion standards. To address these absurd ideals of beauty, which are hard to escape in everyday life, artificial creatures have been created from flowers - the symbol of beauty and youth par excellence - that pose like models in front of the camera. The new "superflowers", which are obviously not naturally grown, represent an unattainable beauty that has been artificially created. The fascinating creatures seduce the viewer with their unusual appearance and at the same time raise questions about the manipulative flood of images in advertising and social media, but also about the artificial optimization of outward appearance in general.
All of the "flower models" have been assembled by hand from different cut flowers and potted plants and were photographed in the studio. Some of the plants and flowers were sewn or pinned together using pins, which were later retouched.
Opening: October 24, 2024
Exhibition goes from October 25 to January 31, 2025
at the AnzenbergerGallery
Absberggasse 27, 1100 Vienna
Opening hours: Wed - Fri 12 to 6 pm or by appointment
Part of RotLicht Festival for analogue photography.
Brunch & Artist Talk on November 16, 2024 from 11-15 h.
The AnzenbergerGallery presents the Australian artist Kurt Sorensen and the Austrian artist Daniela Koeppl with landscape photographs of their home countries. What significance does land have in times of climate crisis and war? How do people treat the land, cultivate it and try to control it? While Kurt Sorensen traces the origins of the landscape before the settlement of Australia, Daniela Köppl explores the cultivated landscape in the form of hills. The differences could not be greater than between these two countries. A visual approach.