The Poured Paintings of Hermann Nitsch. It is sometimes in liquid form, sometimes with a pasty consistency that this artist applies his paint in these works, splattering or spraying it or even just smearing it with his bare hands. This presentation impressively demonstrates Nitsch’s significance, tracing his oeuvre’s development from the early 1960s to the present.
"Art is a special kind f life. What kind of life is making Lukewarm Art?
I will not make Lukewarm Art. I want to make anything Art.
I want to make Art, which is so important, like the stars, the sun system."
I want to make Art, which is so important, like being."
Since his childhood, Nitsch’s art and the special view of things through representational, abstract and later informal painting have led him to his overall artwork design, the so-called Orgien Mysterien Theatre. He wrote this concept at the age of 19 and it is still the topos of his life today. In the following decades, his life and work were accompanied by arrests, convictions, prison sentences, scandals, death threats and countless hostilities. Today, the now renowned and nationally and internationally acclaimed Austrian State Prize winner is an art icon and a celebrated world star.