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Collector Reinhard Walenta | illy Art Collection
2015 / People

Collector Reinhard Walenta | illy Art Collection

Posted on 13. September 2015 by Kris Kulakova • 1 Comment

Some people collect art, some stamps, anything goes. The retired Austrian Administrative Official and carpenter Reinhard Walenta collects illy cups. Not just any cups, each one is designed by a renowned contemporary artist… Continue reading →

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2 – 5 September 2021
viennacontemporary | International Art Fair

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#viennacontemporary Magazine reports on the activities of viennacontemporary and provides you with in-depth insights into what’s going on in the art world. We publish interviews with gallerists, collectors, artists, and art lovers. Our main focus is Austria, but we also explore the art scene in Southern and Eastern Europe and beyond. viennacontemporary is not only a reflection of the contemporary art landscape in the region. It’s about people, society, trends, and dialogue.

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Franz Wojda has left us at the age of 81. In the early years of VIENNAFAIR that later developed into viennacontemporary, he was not only one of our partners and shareholders but also a passionate advocate for the significance of contemporary Austrian and international art in the city of Vienna.
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"We wanted to create a natural oasis in the middle of Marx Halle. A place to relax and rest, a place for creative exchange. It was designed to be a meeting point and a haven of tranquillity at the same time – a break from the hustle and bustle of the art world, and yet at the centre of it." - @martinsteininger_
For ancient cultures, art was more than a reflection of reality: it was knowledge about reality, and a means to create it. The material acted as a vehicle for the spiritual. The Mesopotamians were “among the first to recognize that history is in things, that works of art and monuments mediate between the world of people and the world of the gods, between past, present and future, and that images, unlike people, are infinite beings.“1 Ancient people shaped natural elements into artworks that fascinated modern artists centuries later – not only for their aesthetics, but also because they reflected the promise of an unspoiled world, in which humanity's relationship to nature and spirituality was not yet mediated by technology. Artworks developed by five artists from various generations and varying cultures over the past 70 years act as infinite beings, incorporating ancestral knowledge while remaining rooted in the particular contexts in which they were created. Primordial impulses, hopes, and dreams of a better future emerge in timeless zoomorphic sculptures, in abstract structures and objects from daily life imbued with spirituality.
Rafał Bujnowski - Current Works on view at @georgkarglfinearts until 8 May, 2021.
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