Punk. No One is Innocent
a must see exhibition in Wien
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Gudrun Gut, ca. 1977, Foto: Anja Frejya, Courtesy Gudrun Gut
There is a great exhibition about the punk culture/style in Wien’s Kunsthalle. If you are in the are it’s really a must see. Here is what the organizers think about the event: Besides Hip Hop, Punk was the last global pop cultural movement that aimed to be more than just an acoustic
furnishing of teenager bedrooms: a complete upheaval in fashion, gestures of style, artistic forms of expression,
and music from the improve the world poses rampant in the sixties’ Summer of Love to the nihilism and no
future slogans of the Winter of Hate ten years after; from the soft and shapeless psychedelic color games to the
sharp contrasts and angular designs of the neon and plastic era. Punk was about an attitude of protest fuelled
by the spirit of the Situationist International, an extreme left wing group of European artists and intellectuals who
lived for “carrying gasoline to where there was fire” (Guy Debord).
Make sure to visit the Kunsthalle’s site for more info and/or read the press release. Here are few picture to make you move.
Richard Kern, Fingered, 1986, Courtesy Richard Kern
Vivienne Westwood in “Sex”, 1975, Foto: William English
Linder, Untitled, 1978, Courtesy Stuart Shave Modern Art, London
Richard Hambleton, Shadow Man, New York City, East Village, 1982, Foto: Hank O’Neal, Courtesy Hank O’Neal und/and Woodward Gallery, New York
Lynda Benglis, Artforum Advertisement, 1974, © 2008 Lynda Benglis, VBK Wien 2008, Courtesy Cheim & Read, New York
Mark Morrisroe, Untitled (La Môme Piaf), 1982, © Nachlass Mark Morrisroe (Sammlung Ringier) im Fotomuseum Winterthur
