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December 5, 2020–June 13, 2021
Mönchsberg
Mönchsberg 32
5020 Salzburg
Austria
Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 10am–6pm,
Wednesday 10am–8pm
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Not Vital (1948 Sent, Switzerland) is considered a nomadic artist who, for about 50 years now, has been exploring the world with an anthropological inquisitiveness. In his studios in Brazil, Chile, China, Italy and Niger, he lives and works for several months with the local people and their cultures and traditions. At the same time, Vital is closely connected to the place of his origin, the Swiss Engadine, to which he regularly returns. The artist draws the inspiration for his works from this multitude of places and encounters with people, local traditions and handicraft techniques, but also from his own childhood and youth memories. Vital’s works are formally characterized by a fascinating clarity and precision and convey an enigmatic timelessness through their somehow indefinable, archaic-seeming iconography.
The Museum der Moderne Salzburg is dedicating Not Vital’s first institutional solo exhibition in Austria. The extensive monographic show will include 21 sculptures and objects, three installations and 144 drawings.
Curators: Thorsten Sadowsky and Christina Penetsdorfer
Supported by:
pro helvetia schweizer kulturstiftung
Kulturförderung Graubünden. Amt für Kultur
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London · Paris · Salzburg
Stiftung Stavros S. Nirachos, Chur
Schweizerische Botschaft in Österreich
