{"id":20320,"date":"2019-11-04T05:09:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T04:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/?p=20320"},"modified":"2025-01-17T19:10:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T18:10:21","slug":"walter-pichler-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/walter-pichler-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Walter Pichler exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/belvederesmall.jpg\" alt=\"Upper Belvedere from the gardens\" class=\"wp-image-13444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/belvederesmall.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/belvederesmall-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Stoic metal among baroque frescoes. Walter Pichler&#8217;s <em>Alte Figur<\/em> sculpture is the latest addition to Belvedere&#8217;s intriguing Carlone Contemporary exhibition series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Features Pichler&#8217;s figure and mattress sculpture from the early 1960s<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Exhibited in the Carlone Hall<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Curated by Stella Rollig<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Exhibition runs Nov 8, 2019 &#8211; Feb 9, 2020 <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See also:\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sightseeing\/vienna-museums\/belvedere\/\">Current Belvedere exhibitions &amp; info<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/events\/exhibitions\/\">Art exhibitions<\/a> in Vienna<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"alte-figur-old-figure\">Alte Figur &#8211; Old Figure<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pichlerpicture.jpg\" alt=\"Pichler's Alte Figur sculpture\" class=\"wp-image-20324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pichlerpicture.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pichlerpicture-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Pichler&#8217;s Alte Figur sculpture, courtesy of Galerie Elisabeth &amp; Klaus Thoman Innsbruck \/ Vienna. Photo: Galerie Elisabeth &amp; Klaus Thoman \/ Bernhard Sickert)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vienna offers plenty of opportunity to juxtapose the old with the new. Take the Belvedere&#8217;s art exhibitions, for example. Many are chock full of modern and contemporary works, but surrounded by an early 18th-century palace with much of the original decor still intact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nowhere is this contrast, perhaps, more pronounced and deliberate than in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/carlone-contemporary\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"57612\">Carlone Contemporary exhibition series<\/a>. Every few months, a single object of contemporary art finds a space in the otherwise empty Carlone Hall of Upper Belvedere palace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The room is a place of delight and magic, bedecked with baroque illusionist frescoes. And in the latest installment of the exhibition series, curator Stella Rollig gives us <em>Alte Figur<\/em> (Old Figure), created in the early 1960s by the sculptor and architectural visionary, Walter Pichler (1936-2012).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sculpture only joined the Belvedere collections in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An abstract (female) figure in metal stands on a mattress, the piece representing many of the concepts that characterised Pichler&#8217;s work and approach, such as the interface between life and work,  as well as the harmonious interplay of space, sculpture, material, and time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Time was almost a medium for Pichler, who was known for the long gestation period needed for completing his sculptures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pichler&#8217;s receipt of the 1985 Grand Austrian State Prize reflects the impact and importance of his oeuvre. Other award winners include the likes of Oskar Kokoschka, Arnulf Rainer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/footsteps\/hundertwasser-guide\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"21493\">Friedensreich Hundertwasser<\/a>, and Maria Lassnig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nor was Pichler&#8217;s impact and influence limited to his home country of Austria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, New York&#8217;s Museum of Modern Art once held a solo exhibition of his largely architectural drawings in 1975. The same institution featured his work in several more exhibitions, the latest being 2013&#8217;s <em>9 + 1 Ways of Being Political<\/em> alongside the likes of Ai Weiwei and Rem Koolhaas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"dates-and-tickets\">Dates, tickets &amp; tips<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>See Pichler&#8217;s Alte Figur sculpture from Saturday, November 9th, 2019 to Sunday, February 9th, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ticket info is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sightseeing\/vienna-museums\/belvedere\/\">here<\/a>, but note that Upper Belvedere has a time slot system with a specific entry time associated with your ticket. So if you&#8217;re there in peak season (like around Christmas), book in advance to avoid any delay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/vienna-pass-review\/\">Vienna Pass sightseeing ticket<\/a> should let you go straight in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"how-to-get-to-the-exhibition\">How to get to the exhibition<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/gettingthere3\/\">directions and travel tips<\/a> for Upper Belvedere. Once past the ticket check, look to your right. The Carlone Hall is the first room leading off in that direction, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/medieval-masterpieces\/\">Medieval Masterpieces<\/a> beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Address: Prinz Eugen-Stra\u00dfe 27, 1030 Vienna<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/embed?mid=1ksawXWFMVD9bljA48Gi7_VvWSfI\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stoic metal among baroque frescoes. Walter Pichler&#8217;s Alte Figur sculpture is the latest addition to Belvedere&#8217;s intriguing Carlone Contemporary exhibition series. Alte Figur &#8211; Old Figure (Pichler&#8217;s Alte Figur sculpture, courtesy of Galerie Elisabeth &amp; Klaus Thoman Innsbruck \/ Vienna. Photo: Galerie Elisabeth &amp; Klaus Thoman \/ Bernhard Sickert) Vienna offers plenty of opportunity to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-belvedere-sites","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20320"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79437,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20320\/revisions\/79437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}