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An exhibition of the huge photo-realistic charcoal drawings of Robert Longo opened today at Vienna’s Albertina. The skill is mind-boggling. Catching my eye was Freud’s couch pillow and a meticulous drawing of a Pollock drip painting. ■
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. ■
An exhibition to show the breadth of the Albertina Museum’s contemporary collections, 10am-6pm, until August 18th 2024
Smooth Running (2005-2013), Claudia Märzendorfer
Dancing Figure, Sungi Mlengeya
Creature, Michel Nedjar. Made from cloth, sticks, straw, fibres, mud, animal blood. ■