March 2017

On 10 January, it happened!

Around 2:21 am, the SECOND daughter of Mr. Piero Anzalone came into the world!
A really "big girl" – at 51 cm and 3.090 kg – and a lot of dense black hair!

A BEAUTIFUL baby indeed!

A HAPPY "Mama" and a PROUD "Papa” – and above all, an ENTHUSIASTIC sister named LAVINIA!
Dear family – we just want to wish you LOTS of HAPPINESS and JOY!

Now that the spring cleaning is done and the majority of the house is ready to outshine the spring sun, a part of our reception area has also been revamped. The walls now gleam in a bright, warm shade of yellow.

Our expert Mr Dauti has completely renovated the floor with the help of our youngest team member, Hermann, and its warm shades of brown now beautifully complement the overall picture.

Attempts to view the city from the air have been around for centuries. Only the possibilities for doing so have changed. An exhibition at the Wien Museum focuses on views of Vienna from a bird's eye perspective.

The exhibition shows not only the oldest, biggest or most famous plans, panoramas and models of Vienna but also rare, thematic maps as well as artistic approaches and design products. There are also a number of exhibits of the Vienna Tourist Board, such as plans and brochures from earlier decades, which also provide an unusual view of Vienna.
The attempt to visually wrestle with the ever-growing city is not new. Even centuries ago, classical panoramas, bird shows or plans were created. Rarely were they complete, mostly they were able to show only fragments of the city. That has certainly changed since then.

Moreover, light has been exemplarily cast on traditional as well as new viewing points across the city - from St. Stephen's Cathedral and the Kahlenberg to today's skyscraper. The exhibition is intended to encourage visitors to see the city with different eyes.

Vienna from the air The city at a glance, 23 March - 17 September 2017
www.wienmuseum.at

With his numerous self-portraits, stark depictions of nude women and his self-image as an artist, Egon Schiele became the “enfant terrible” of classic modernism. The Albertina is already commemorating the 100-year anniversary of Schiele’s death in 2018 with a comprehensive exhibition in 2017.

Together with Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele is the most significant visual artist of the 20th century. His works are provocative, melancholy, highly subjective and allegorical all at once. Egon Schiele only reached the age of 28. And yet, despite his short life-span and a barely more than ten-year-long phase of artistic creativity, he succeeded in leaving behind an astonishingly large body of work. It includes more than 2,500 works on paper and over 330 paintings on wood or canvas – not counting his numerous sketchbooks. Schiele, who was born in 1890 as the child of a railway official who worked at the station Tulln on the Danube is considered one of the pioneers of modernism in Austria with Klimt and Kokoschka. To Schiele, the chasm between men and women seemed insurmountable and slowly transforms into an allegory of an encounter between life and death. Although his works were perceived as merely provocative during his time, causing quite a stir, they are now interpreted as pieces of deep melancholy and mourning as well as a fascination with the unusual.

The Albertina owns one of the largest collections of Schiele’s works in the world and is dedicating an extensive exhibition to him on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his death in 2018. The show will be rounded out by important individual loans from Austrian and international collections and museums.

Egon Schiele. Feb. 22 - June 18, 2017
www.albertina.at

Why is the vulgar so repulsive and yet so exciting at the same time? The exhibition “Vulgar? Fashion Redefined” at Prince Eugene’s magnificent Winter Palace invites a discourse about the definition of good taste.

Everything here revolves around clothes. Around fashion that is striking because it is too shrill, too tight, too wide or even too tasteless. This is about what is referred to as “vulgar”. Conceived by the curator Judith Clark and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, this show – which has already caused a stir in London – uses literary definitions of the “vulgar” as its starting point. By means of various categories, including the depiction of the relationship between fashion and the human body, the show demonstrates that vulgarity is inherent in fashion.
To show the volatility of taste, historic clothing, couture as well as ready-wear outfits are contrasted with various fabric patterns, signatures, photographs and films. What was once equated with vulgarity is being reinvented by fashion designers, which then gives it a higher ranking in the definition of “good taste”.

The more than 100 examples were created in the last five centuries, from the Renaissance to the 21st century, by reputable fashion designers and companies such as Chloé and Dior, Christian Lacroix, Lanvin, Moschino, Prada, Agent Provocateur and Louis Vuitton. For Phillips and Clark, fashion always lives in the mixture, in integrating “bad taste” in “good taste”. In conclusion, the underlying thesis of these curators, echoed in statements by Coco Chanel and Jonathan Swift: In the end, (good) taste is a matter of attitude.

Vulgar Fashion Redefined. Mar. 3 - June 25, 2017
www.belvedere.at