#StrikeAPose 🌿🌾🌿🌾🌿🌾🌿🌾🌿🌾🌿🌾🌿🌾🌿 @verenadengler "The Gallery Owner and the Beautiful Anti-Capitalist” @viennasecession 🌿🌾🌿🌾🌿🌾🌿🌾🌿 In the Secession’s gallery, the artist builds a “landscape” consisting of a pond and a surrounding overgrown urban wasteland or “Gstettn” that serves as the setting for other works and elements. 🌿🌾🌿🌾🌿🌾🌿🌾🌿 The bronze sculpture represents a woman holding a bouquet in one hand and an iPhone—the display is recognizably broken—in the other to take a picture of the flowers. The figure strikes the characteristic pose that Barbara Urbanic, the self-described “hobby horticulturist with creative urges and revolutionary zeal,” assumes when she snaps flowers for her Instagram account @stadtblume_wien 🌿🌾🌿🌾🌿🌾🌿🌾🌿 The early days of the Secession with its lavishly flower-bedecked sales exhibitions was one point of reference as the artist drew up the plans for her show, developed in dialogue with the historian of religion Barbara Urbanic; so was her engagement with the “omnipresent Romantic legacy” (Urbanic). 🌿🌾🌿🌾🌿🌾🌿🌾🌿 The works in the exhibition reflect the interplay between past and present. . . Press conference #viennasecession #VerenaDengler #Gstettn #ArtInstallation #BarbaraUrbanic #stadtblumewien #ToArtItsFreedom #DerKunstIhreFreiheit #artinvienna #contemporaryart #ArtsyVisualStorytelling #walmatwien #viennamylove #ig_ometry (at Vienna Secession) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCQaNrVFq9t/?igshid=89d961e9ivs0
