Painters Painting: The New York Art Scene, 1940-1970

Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 7pm, Space04, entry free

A vivid film portrait showing intimate encounters with legendary artist personalities who infused the turbulent New York art scene with new dynamism in the postwar years, from Barnett Newman to Andy Warhol.

In an introductory dialogue, Achim Hochdörfer (Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien) and exhibition curator Peter Pakesch provide glimpses of what the period meant for art history, as a turning point in American art and culture.
Documentary film directed by Emile de Antonio, 116 mins, English

Achim Hochdörfer
is curator at the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig in Vienna (MUMOK). Solo exhibitions of (among others) Jeff Wall (2003), John Cage (2004), Mike Kelley (2005) and Cy Twombly (2009). Group exhibitions include Why Pictures Now (2006) and Konzept. Aktion. Sprache (2007). Head of Academic Events at MUMOK since 2001, most recently co-curator of the performance event NICHTS ist aufregend. NICHTS ist sexy. NICHTS ist nicht peinlich. Lecture ships at the Viennese Academy of Arts (theory of photography) and the University of Vienna’s Institute of the History of Art. Numerous publications on contemporary art in catalogues and periodicals, most recently The “Transition Period” between 1958 and 1964 as Painting’s Hidden Reserve, in Artforum (February 2009).

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