"Trauer"

VIENNA "TRAUER" ATELIER AUGARTEN ZENTRUM FUR ZEITGENOSSISCHE KUNST DER OSTERREICHISCHEN GALERIE BELVEDERE

Through the centuries, the theme of pathos has become rarer in art. Today it is almost taboo. At the Osterreichische Galerie in the baroque Belvedere Palace, one sees how in classical painting and sculpture death and loss leads to transfiguration and victory. But mourning in contemporary art? In "Trauer" (Mourning) their manifold contradictions have been productively addressed by the gallery's curator of modern and contemporary art, Thomas Trummer, who in his catalogue essay measures the representability of mourning and tragedy by way of such texts as Freud's "Mourning and …