Simona Cochi
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Simona depicting with her camera one of Europe’s most important compilations of Modernist art in the form of the Batliner Collection.
Fauvism is the name applied to the work produced by a group of artists (which included Henri Matisse and André Derain) from around 1905 to 1910, which is characterized by strong colors and fierce brushwork.
Pointellism is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image. Georges Seurat and Paul Signac developed the technique in 1886, branching from Impressionism.
The Batliner collection starts off with such artists of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism as Degas, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Gauguin. Further highlights include examples of German Expressionism, with the groups of Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter, and the art of New Objectivity, with works by Wacker, Sedlacek, and Hofer. An in-depth focus on Austrian art comprises works by Kokoschka and paintings by Egger-Lienz. The great diversity of the Russian avant-garde is represented by paintings by Goncharova, Malevich, and Chagall.
The presentation is topped off by numerous chefs-d’oeuvre by Picasso, ranging from his early Cubist pictures and works from his mature period of the 1940s to superb prints that have not yet been exhibited and paintings from his experimental late period.
Herbert Batliner, one of the greatest art collectors and patrons of our time, passed away on Saturday, 8 June 2019, after a long and serious illness at the age of 90 in Vaduz.⠀
In the year 2000, he donated the Propter Homines Hall to the ALBERTINA, in which the museum has since been able to show all major exhibitions from Dürer to Raphael or to Vincent van Gogh. In 2007, the Liechtenstein lawyer and trustee gave his valuable art collection to the ALBERTINA. Today it is one of the world’s most important collections of Modernist painting and in recent years has become the basis of many successful exhibitions by Picasso, Magritte, Max Ernst and Matisse.⠀
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Austrian way videomagazine
The purpose of this editorial project entitled The Austrian Way is to showcase internationally the virtues and related endowment of Vienna and its art scenario. “The Austrian Way” Youtube Channel (My Camera …..my Paintbrush) is an iconic video magazine created by Simona Cochi, an Italian journalist and pr based in Milan. 2017, Simona Cochi starts her digital video magazine to adapt communication and journalism techniques to the new challenge of the 2.0 era. In 2018, during her experience as a video blogger in Vienna’s museums, her definitive inspiration for surrealism was ignited through the work on the Man Ray’s show at the Kunstforum. Further creativity and motivation have been enhanced thanks to the researches on Sigmund Freud, the other eminent Austrian figure with a significative traces of his life and works in Vienna. The video journey started as “The Austrian Way” inside the magnificent art shows in the capital city: Monet, Picasso, Gustav Klimt, Keith Hearing, Florentina Pakosta, and more. The digital producer’s aim is to “paint” the path of the art exhibitions with her camera, revealing an unprecedented vision, delivering new interpretative nuances of daily reality. The images and comments of the Italian journalist are expressed to describe the emotions of art but also to portray the magnificent outposts of culture. Simona Cochi’s footages are often accompanied by iconic interviews from the event’s protagonist. The beauty of a work resides in its visionary strength, in its celebratory capacity, in the alienating effect it arouses and this is what the spontaneity of the author often manages to convey. The creative gesture of “direct capture” (the camera like a brush) blends different and transversal elements and draws on the visual heritage, the digital, the sound in a field with still unexplored possibilities but which has the characteristics of 21st,century Surrealism.
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