60 Years of Art in 6 hours – Part 2

Upon request of the audience Hildegund Amanshauser continued her fascinating lecture on 60 Years of Art in 6 hours for another two and a half hours at Alte Saline Pernerinsel. The second part started with painting in Germany from Baselitz to Richter with an excursus to austrian artist Maria Lassnig who calls her work also body awareness painting. She often closed her eyes while painting with her body to express herself.  Coming up to austrian sculptor Franz West with his „Pass-Stücke“ which should be touched and carried by the audience Ms. Amanshauser stated, that many austrian artists where dealing with the body while german artists where dealing with history at that time.  Coming along with the gallery-boom in Europe and US in the 80ies the world had two major art-cities by then: Cologne and New York. A postcolonial discours started with beginning globalization after the breakdown of Berlin Wall and rouse the question: How can we (in the history of the colonisers) deal with art from other cultures like Afrika, Asia or subcultures.  It´s always a question of translation and understanding history. After some examples of video-art (Mathew Barney, Monica Bonvicini, Eija-Liisa Ahtila and Cameron Jamie) the lecture closed with aspects for 2000 where the interaction of science and art and artistic research became more and more evident.  But did it really end ? – As Ms. Amanshauser said everything will be continued and is in a process ... looking forward to Part 3.