As if with the Scalpel
The Actionist Drawings of Günter Brus
26.09.2018-27.01.2019
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
presse@museum-joanneum.at
Sujet for download
Material

Private collection, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner
Brus-Aktionsskizze-1966.jpg (0.9 MB)

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
Guenter-Brus-Roman-Grabner.jpg (1.72 MB)

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
Muchitsch-Drexler-Brus-Getzinger.jpg (1.77 MB)



Material

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
BRUSEUM-Wie-mit-dem-Skalpell-Ansicht-01.jpg (1.02 MB)

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
BRUSEUM-Wie-mit-dem-Skalpell-Ansicht-02.jpg (0.89 MB)

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
BRUSEUM-Wie-mit-dem-Skalpell-Ansicht-03.jpg (0.73 MB)

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
BRUSEUM-Wie-mit-dem-Skalpell-Ansicht-04.jpg (0.83 MB)

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
BRUSEUM-Wie-mit-dem-Skalpell-Ansicht-05.jpg (0.8 MB)

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
BRUSEUM-Wie-mit-dem-Skalpell-Ansicht-06.jpg (0.72 MB)

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
BRUSEUM-Wie-mit-dem-Skalpell-Ansicht-07.jpg (0.8 MB)

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
BRUSEUM-Wie-mit-dem-Skalpell-Ansicht-08.jpg (0.68 MB)

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
BRUSEUM-Wie-mit-dem-Skalpell-Ansicht-09.jpg (0.77 MB)

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
BRUSEUM-Wie-mit-dem-Skalpell-Ansicht-10.jpg (0.68 MB)

Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
BRUSEUM-Wie-mit-dem-Skalpell-Ansicht-11.jpg (1.15 MB)

Material

Biro on paper, 20 x 21 cm, BRUSEUM/Neue Galerie Graz, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum
Aktionsskizze-01.jpg (2.35 MB)

Tusche on paper, 21 x 20 cm, BRUSEUM/Neue Galerie Graz, Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum
Aktionsskizze-02.jpg (2.54 MB)

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.
Images
Publication is permitted exclusively in the context of announcements and reviews related to the exhibition. Please avoid any cropping of the images. Thank you for crediting the photographs according to the enclosed indications.
Press contact
Universalmuseum Joanneum
Marketing & Communications
Mariahilferstraße 4
8020 Graz, Austria
Mobil +43-664/8017-9214
presse@museum-joanneum.at
Downloads
- Universalmuseum_Joanneum_Langtext_ENGL_2019.pdf (21 KB)
- UMJ-Programme-2020-E.pdf (2,164 KB)