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As if with the Scalpel

The Actionist Drawings of Günter Brus

26.09.2018-27.01.2019


Curated by: Roman Grabner

Press tour: 26.09.2018, noon
Opening: 27.09.2018, 7 pm
Duration: 28.09.2018–27.01.2019

 

Info exhibition: +43-316/8017-9100
Info press: +43-316/8017-9213 or DDI -9211
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Sujet for download

Material


Subject, Günter Brus, "Aktionsskizze", 1966,
Subject, Günter Brus, "Aktionsskizze", 1966,

Private collection, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner


Brus-Aktionsskizze-1966.jpg (0.9 MB)

Artist Günter Brus (l.) and Curator Roman Grabner (r.)
Artist Günter Brus (l.) and Curator Roman Grabner (r.)

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek


Guenter-Brus-Roman-Grabner.jpg (1.72 MB)

Group photo, f. l. t. r.: Chief Science Officer Wolfgang Muchitsch, State Councillor Christopher Drexler, Artist Günter Brus and Chief Commercial Officer Alexia Getzinger
Group photo, f. l. t. r.: Chief Science Officer Wolfgang Muchitsch, State Councillor Christopher Drexler, Artist Günter Brus and Chief Commercial Officer Alexia Getzinger

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek


Muchitsch-Drexler-Brus-Getzinger.jpg (1.77 MB)

Günter Brus,
Günter Brus,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek


Guenter-Brus-BRUSEUM-01.jpg (1.91 MB)

Günter Brus,
Günter Brus,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek


Guenter-Brus-BRUSEUM-02.jpg (0.62 MB)

Installation views for download are available here Expand Box

Material


Exhibition view,
Exhibition view,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek


BRUSEUM-Wie-mit-dem-Skalpell-Ansicht-01.jpg (1.02 MB)

Exhibition view,
Exhibition view,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek


BRUSEUM-Wie-mit-dem-Skalpell-Ansicht-02.jpg (0.89 MB)

Exhibition view,
Exhibition view,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek


BRUSEUM-Wie-mit-dem-Skalpell-Ansicht-03.jpg (0.73 MB)

Exhibition view,
Exhibition view,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek


BRUSEUM-Wie-mit-dem-Skalpell-Ansicht-04.jpg (0.83 MB)

Exhibition view,
Exhibition view,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek


BRUSEUM-Wie-mit-dem-Skalpell-Ansicht-05.jpg (0.8 MB)

Exhibition view,
Exhibition view,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek


BRUSEUM-Wie-mit-dem-Skalpell-Ansicht-06.jpg (0.72 MB)

Exhibition view,
Exhibition view,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek


BRUSEUM-Wie-mit-dem-Skalpell-Ansicht-07.jpg (0.8 MB)

Exhibition view,
Exhibition view,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek


BRUSEUM-Wie-mit-dem-Skalpell-Ansicht-08.jpg (0.68 MB)

Exhibition view,
Exhibition view,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek


BRUSEUM-Wie-mit-dem-Skalpell-Ansicht-09.jpg (0.77 MB)

Exhibition view,
Exhibition view,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek


BRUSEUM-Wie-mit-dem-Skalpell-Ansicht-10.jpg (0.68 MB)

Exhibition view,
Exhibition view,

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek


BRUSEUM-Wie-mit-dem-Skalpell-Ansicht-11.jpg (1.15 MB)

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Material


Günter Brus, "Aktionsskizze", 1966,
Günter Brus, "Aktionsskizze", 1966,

Biro on paper, 20 x 21 cm, BRUSEUM/Neue Galerie Graz, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum


Aktionsskizze-01.jpg (2.35 MB)

Günter Brus, "Aktionsskizze", 1966,
Günter Brus, "Aktionsskizze", 1966,

Tusche on paper, 21 x 20 cm, BRUSEUM/Neue Galerie Graz, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum


Aktionsskizze-02.jpg (2.54 MB)

Günter Brus, "Aktionsskizze", 1966,
Günter Brus, "Aktionsskizze", 1966,

Biro on paper, 20 x 21 cm, BRUSEUM/Neue Galerie Graz, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum


Aktionsskizze-03.jpg (3.5 MB)

About the exhibition

To mark Günter Brus’ 80th birthday, the BRUSEUM is showing a world-first exhibition of his Actionist drawings. The jubilee is also an occasion to present the first part of a catalogue of works that is planned over many years. Founded in 2008, the BRUSEUM is not only a museum for Günter Brus; it is also conceived crucially as a centre of expertise concerning, and research into, the artist’s oeuvre.

In the 1960s Günter Brus placed his body at the centre of his art. In the drawings that prepared, accompanied and built upon his Actions, he reveals himself as a brutally tortured and mutilated individual. The ‘body analyses’, as he calls his later Actions, find their execution in drawing form in the multiple penetration and vivisection of his body, in lines that are as sharp as they are unsparing, reminding one of cuts made by a razor. The show As if with the Scalpel is the first time these ‘Actionist drawings’ have been gathered on their own, their intensity and their existential and political power remaining undiminished in currency and potency 50 years after their execution.

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