Vortrag · 26. Februar 2017

Lecture on March 2, 6 PM, at the Archive of Fine Arts/Dox Center, Prague within the accompanying program of the Vojtěch Birnbaum: The Principle of Art exhibition. On a photo taken in 1964 Hans Sedlmayr poses as king Louis XIV of France with a coke bottle. The snapshot reveals his personal cultural critical attitude in a unique way merging together baroque nostalgia and modern consumer culture. Sedlmayr’s oeuvre is preliminary dedicated to an anti-classical canon, which again correlates with...