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Month: December 2012
Marquetry
Found this beautiful table with delicate marquetry in a small traditional café.
Photo reconnaissance
If your are photography enthusiast you should check out the top ten photos of 2012 by the Time Magazine. Interestingly enough only two photos show women, and natch, in their traditional roles as representatives of beauty and grief: ‘TIME Picks the Top 10 Photos of 2012’
There is also a section for the ten most surprising photos of 2012: ‘Time Picks the Most Surprising Photos of 2012’
And last but not least, you should not miss the very interesting photo essay on the US president: ’48 hours with Barack Obamba’.
In Our Time. Magnum 1947-1987
The photo gallery ‘WestLicht’ shows in its current exhibition ‘In Our Time. Magnum 1947-1987’ photos of the legendary photo agency Magnum.
You can find photos of the four agency founders Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David Seymour (Chim) and 50 more Magnum photographers.
The exhibition covers 40 years of high quality documentary photography and shows both the changes in the world as well as in photography itself.
From 07 12 2012 to 10 02 2013
WestLicht. Schauplatz für Fotografie
Westbahnstraße 40, 1070 Wien
Check it out at: Westlicht
In the shadows
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Even more naked men …
As already outlined, naked men seem to be en vogue in Vienna, because there is another exhibition. It deals with the depiction of sexuality forms beyond homo- and hetero-normativity and the concept of ‘queer abstraction’.
ROSA ARBEIT AUF GOLDENER STRASSE
10 11 2012 – 03 02 2013
xhibit, exhibition rooms of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna
Check out further information at: Pink work on a golden street
There is an interesting article about male nudity in the ‘ZEIT magazin’, that explains why there are no images of penises in women’s magazines and why men do not need to flaunt their handsomeness: Incidentally, that is a penis.
Buy or die
And now some consumption critique or a caricature of it … whatever you prefer
David Chipperfield II
Round the corner
David Chipperfield I
The elegant and sophisticated buliding on the left side was designed by David Chipperfield. It is a department store that opened its doors last year.
The grid facade, the bright limestones and the huge windows are a reinterpretation of the so-called curtain wall, that was so typical of the early department stores.
Not all inhabtitants of Vienna are sure if the design is well done, as some think that the buidling is too dominant and rough. Personally I think the worst would be if people would not discuss the building at all …
I was sent to outer space …
Well, a quite eccentric version of a Christ Child, or is it something else …?
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