Love Story
Anne & Wolfgang Titze Collection
15 June–5 October 2014
Winter Palace
Himmelpfortgasse 8
1010 Vienna
Hours: Daily 10am–6pm
21er Haus
Arsenalstraße 1
1030 Vienna
Hours: Wednesday–Thursday 11am–9pm,
Friday–Sunday 11am–6pm
As hinted at in the title, the exhibition revolves around a passion: the passion connecting the French-Austrian collecting couple Anne and Wolfgang Titze and fine arts. This is the first public appearance of a selection of ca. 130 works of around 90 artists, in a charming interplay between two venues of Vienna’s Belvedere Museum: the baroque interior of the Winter Palace and the modern pavilion architecture of the 21er Haus.
At the center of the exhibition at the 21er Haus, works by the pioneers of reduction of the 1950s and minimal and conceptual art of the 1960s converge. Recent trends in painting, sculpture and photography revolve around this junction and re-adopt issues of body, space, gesture and image. A steel sculpture by Bernar Venet, located between Upper Belvedere and castle pond, confronts historical architecture and contemporary form—a leitmotif that is continued in the Winter Palace. There, the site-specific presentation brings conceptual and figurative painterly approaches, such as post-war German art, works of Arte Povera, modern and post-modern sculpture in a variety of materials as well as current imagery in dialogue with the former residence of Prince Eugene of Savoy.
Between the white museum wall and gilded stucco the exhibits unfold an interaction of appealing contrasts, which here and there opens up new perspectives both on the spaces as well as on the works staged in them.
Curators: Severin Dünser, Luisa Ziaja
List of artists
The parallel exhibitions at these two venues include works by Marina Abramovic, David Altmejd, Carl Andre, Matthew Barney, Georg Baselitz, Valérie Belin, Larry Bell, Matthew Brannon, James Lee Byars, John Chamberlain, Nigel Cooke, Richard Deacon, Thomas Demand, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Olafur Eliasson, Dan Flavin, Lucio Fontana, Barnaby Furnas, Adrian Ghenie, Antony Gormley, Rodney Graham, Kevin Francis Gray, Andreas Gursky, Wade Guyton, Guyton/Walker, Eberhard Havekost, Thomas Helbig, Gregor Hildebrandt, Shirazeh Houshiary, Nathan Hylden, Kathleen Jacobs, Donald Judd, Anish Kapoor, Jacob Kassay, Anselm Kiefer, Yayoi Kusama, Claude Lévêque, Sherrie Levine, Sol LeWitt, Robert Longo, Sarah Lucas, Robert Mangold, Piero Manzoni, Christian Marclay, Agnes Martin, John McCracken, Adam McEwen, Julie Mehretu, Mario Merz, Matthew Monahan, Robert Morris, Gabriel Orozco, Damián Ortega, Giulio Paolini, Adam Pendleton, Joyce Pensato, Grayson Perry, Paola Pivi, Jaume Plensa, Seth Price, Rashid Rana, Gerhard Richter, Charles Ross, Sterling Ruby, Robert Ryman, Fred Sandback, Wilhelm Sasnal, Thomas Scheibitz, Sean Scully, Dirk Skreber, Tony Smith, Peter Stauss, Frank Stella, Rudolf Stingel, Wolfgang Tillmans, Günther Uecker, Bernar Venet, Kelley Walker, Jeff Wall, Rebecca Warren, Lawrence Weiner, Rachel Whiteread, Christopher Williams, Christopher Wool, Erwin Wurm, Lisa Yuskavage, Toby Ziegler, Thomas Zipp and Heimo Zobernig
Catalogue
Love Story—Anne & Wolfgang Titze Collection
Editors: Agnes Husslein-Arco, Clayton Press, Anne de Boismilon
Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg
404 pages, 24 x 30 cm, hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-902805-47-8
Contact
Claudia Bauer, Head of Communications and New Media 21er Haus
T +43 1 79 557 185 / M +43 664 800 141 185
Barbara Aschenbrenner, Head of Communications and New Media Belvedere
T +43 1 795 57 270 / F +43 1 795 57 250
