Afterwards: documentary premiere “Picasso – His Heirs” on the 50th anniversary of the death of the artist of the century – from 10.30 p.m. on ORF 2
Vienna (OTS) – The “kulturMontag” presented by Peter Schneeberger on March 27, 2023 at 10:30 p.m. on ORF 2 has a very wide range of topics: on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso, the program deals with a portrait of the Swiss art collector and gallery owner Angela Rosengart, who Century artist not only knew personally, but sat for him several times as a model, as well as in the subsequent new documentation “Picasso – His Heirs” (11:15 p.m.) with his life and work. The magazine also reports on the premiere of Moritz Eggert’s operetta “The Last Conspiracy” at the Vienna Volksoper, staged by artistic director Lotte de Beer. The composer is a live guest in the studio. One of the topics is the new retrospective of the work of the French body art artist and radical feminist ORLAN in the Verbund Collection.
50th anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso – Art collector Angela Rosengart on her favorite painter
Women were the theme of his life, he idolized and dismantled them in his art, they offered him the perfect projection surface. Pablo Picasso constantly sought renewal in his art as in life. The number of his styles corresponds to some extent with those of his most important relationships with women. Angela Rosengart, a Swiss gallery owner’s daughter, posed for the charismatic master several times in Paris and at his domicile in southern France. Today, the 91-year-old, petite art collector and patron, who met not only Pablo Picasso but also Marc Chagall, Oskar Kokoschka and Paul Klee, is a grande dame of the Lucerne art scene. The idea of a museum came up more than 20 years ago, when the apartment became too small for their top-class collection. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Picasso’s death, “kulturMontag” visited the elderly but still energetic art dealer and director of the Museum Rosengart Collection in Lucerne and talked to her regarding her favorite painter Picasso and her passion for art.
The art of the flesh – ORLAN in portrait
ORLAN, the French superstar of feminism, has been fighting once morest gender stereotypes and the dictate of beauty since the 1960s, which has recently been catapulted into ever scarier spheres by digital innovations. For more than three decades, the now 75-year-old artist, born Mireille Suzanne Francette Porte, has been provoking heated debates with her work, using photos and videos of plastic surgery once morest the standard beauty she had performed on her own body. For three years, the audience was able to take part in her operations, which she performed without general anesthesia, via broadcast. A radical body show, with which ORLAN gradually approached an ideal of beauty that is in contradiction to social clichés. Throughout her life, the radical feminist has tried to break through socio-political and social frameworks. Shrill, offbeat and sharp-tongued, the artist presents herself in her first retrospective in Austria in the Verbund Collection. “kulturMontag” brings a portrait.
In the network of lateral thinkers – Moritz Eggert and his conspiracy operetta at the Volksoper
The Vienna Volksoper promises a crazy ride through the abysses of today’s conspiracy myths with its world premiere of the operetta “The Last Conspiracy”. In his latest work, the German composer Moritz Eggert takes a good look at the myths surrounding Aluhütler, Flatearthler & Co. The client for this bizarre idea is Volksoper director Lotte de Beer, who is directing the weird story regarding a successful talk show host herself. Eggert lets his protagonist, who encounters a “flatarthler”, delve deeper and deeper into the world of conspiracies until he himself begins to doubt reality. Subterranean reptilian creatures, extraterrestrials, artificial intelligences, simulated worlds, UFO landings, and even pizzas made from human flesh play a role in the burlesque, flashy plot. In the middle of the corona pandemic, the request came from the Vienna Volksoper and Moritz Eggert had the order in his pocket within a very short time. Lotte de Beer is convinced that there is hardly anyone better qualified to write a contemporary operetta than him. The composer compares his most recent work with a film by David Lynch. A contemporary operetta on the subject of conspiracy theories may be bold, but Moritz Eggert sees the tradition of this genre – similar to Offenbach – connected with critical theater. “kulturMontag” reports on the premiere and welcomes Moritz Eggert live in the studio.
Documentation “Picasso – His Heirs” (11:15 p.m.)
On April 8, 1973, one of the greatest artistic geniuses of the 20th century died: Pablo Picasso. After an inventory of his works, spread over eleven residences, almost 50,000 oeuvres were counted, including drawings, paintings, sculptures and ceramics. They all show a special aspect of the artist’s private life: portraits of the women in his life, his children and his companions.
50 years following Pablo Picasso’s death, Hugues Nancy’s film celebrates the incredibly productive work of the famous Spaniard. He also sheds light on the legal process surrounding Picasso’s estate, one of the longest and most complicated in the world of modern art. Through their unprecedented access to the Picasso family, authors Hugues Nancy and Olivier Widmaier-Picasso succeed in conveying new insights into Picasso’s art and private life. Previously unknown photographs from the archives of the Picasso family, above all from the studios on the Côte d’Azur and from Pablo Picasso’s last years, create a fascinating view of the artist of the century. For the first time in this unity, Picasso’s daughter Maya, son Claude, grandson Bernard and his former partner Françoise Gilot made themselves available for interviews for the film portrait. In this way, the documentation enables an unprecedented approach to Pablo Picasso – as a person and as an artist.
