Life is”a dream and a fear” mused Austrian artist Alfred Kubin, an outlook shown in a new doomscroll of his pen and ink drawings. It seems less the “Aesthetics of Evil”, as the Albertina Modern exhibition is called, but that of unremitting gloom.
“I do not work for pleasure, but to forget the disgust I feel for myself and the whole world,” he said. It does not appear to have been a joke. ■