With the participation of the artists: Matthew Antezzo, Alexandru Antik, Maja Bajevi\u0107, Rosa Barba, John Bock, Geta Br\u0103tescu, G\u00fcnter Brus, Andr\u00e9 Cadere, VALIE EXPORT, Peter Weibel, Heinz Frank, Dorothee Golz, Ion Grigorescu, Ana Lupa\u0219, Tracey Moffatt, Hermann Nitsch, Mikl\u00f3s Onucs\u00e1n, Rudolf Polanszky, Lisl Ponger, Dieter Roth & Arnulf Rainer, Christoph Schlingensief, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Decebal Scriba, Patricia Teodorescu, Milica Tomi\u0107, Doru Tulcan, Sorin Vreme, Franz West & Andreas Reiter Raabe.<\/p>\n
The Third Woman includes a valuable selection of pieces from the Charim Collection in Vienna, alongside an excerpt from the Ovidiu \u0218andor Collection and several invited works by Romanian contemporary artists. At the core of the exhibition lie the influential works of VALIE EXPORT, a pioneer of feminist art, who has used her own body in a radical and polarizing manner, dismantling the traditional concepts of femininity within a male-dominated discourse. The title of the exhibition has been inspired by the famous 1949 British espionage film The Third Man, directed by Carol Reed after a script signed by Graham Greene, with Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles and Trevor Howard. The action is set in Vienna, in the post-war period, against a backdrop marked by the trauma of bombardments. By analogy, within the exhibition, VALIE EXPORT plays the role of \u201cthe third woman\u201d, becoming the link that connects both the famous and the less known stories of recent Romanian and Austrian art.<\/p>\n
The exhibition brings together works by the representatives of Viennese Actionism from the movement\u2019s early days, and includes important names of the 70s and 80s associated with performance art, installation or gestural painting, as well as contemporary pieces. Categorically rejecting moral taboos, Christian rigour and the clinical image of the body, Viennese artists aimed to transgress all the limits of art. The artworks created by the Romanian artists included in the exhibition as part of their subversive underground explorations during the Communist era and in the immediate aftermath of the regime\u2019s fall are consistent with the radical attitudes that the Actionists exhibited as a reaction to the conservative context of post-war Viennese society.<\/p>\n
The Charim Collection, which has been developed over a long period of time, is characterised by an interest for the novel and experimental dimension of art, as well as by the performative nature of artistic gestures and actions. Organising the exhibition in the future European Capital of Culture represents a unique opportunity to open a cultural dialogue between two cities that share significant resemblances. At the same time, it constitutes a meeting point for 20th century radical art movements that is enhanced by the presence of a contemporary art selection.<\/p>\n
Organiser: Art Encounters Foundation
\nSponsor of the permanent programme: Banca Transilvania
\nCo-financer: The Administration of the National Cultural Fund
\nInstitutional partners: Charim Gallery, the Austrian Cultural Forum
\nSponsors: ISHO, Thesaurus Wines, Illy, Agasi, Melbo Instal
\nMedia partners: The Institute, RFI Rom\u00e2nia, Radio Rom\u00e2nia Cultural, Zeppelin, Modernism.ro
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