Jeudi 26 Février 2015 12:40:19 par actuphoto dans Expositions

‘Feeling animalistic. Feeling Hyena. Feeling Wolf. Feeling Dog. I am tongue and heart.’(David Wojnarowicz)

The Grazer Kunstverein continues to question the concept of social abstraction by presenting work by two exceptional American artists who have both gained cult status in the United States. Each of their practices investigates and translates the personal and physical relationship towards their surroundings.

© David Wojnarowicz ‘Arthur Rimbaud in New York (Tile floor, gun)’, 1978–79

The works of David Wojnarowicz and Robert Blanchon reflect upon the United States in the 1980s and throughout the '90s, when gay and queer politics were severely suppressed and questioned during the rise of the HIV/AIDS virus. The poetic but often direct approach of these two AIDS activists represents a period that currently seems to gain more prominence due to the neo-liberal ideologies that are forced upon our perception of society.

© Robert Blanchon ‘Self-Portrait with Tattoo’, 1993