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DECADENCE NOW!

Visions of Excess
Curator Otto M. Urban
Arbor vitae Publishers   (Group exhibition at the Rudolfinum Prague)
01. October 2010


Here, Decadence is envisioned as a response to apocalypse, economic turmoil and the effects of late capitalism. Decadence Now!: Visions of Excess reaches back to the 1970s to examine pre-millennial rumblings of alienation, aestheticism, morbidity, pornography, intoxication and madness in the art of Robert Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman, Matthew Barney, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Gilbert and George, Keith Haring, Gottfried Helnwein, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Yasumasa Morimura, Catherine Opie, Zhang Peng, Pierre et Gilles, Andres Serrano, Joel-Peter Witkin, David Wojnarowicz and many others.




Gottfried Helnwein: Decadence Now ! - Visions of Excess
Decadence Now ! - Visions of Excess 2010


Author: Otto M. Urban
# Hardcover: 300 pages
# Publisher: Artefakt/Arbor Vitae (March 31, 2011)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 8087164601
# ISBN-13: 978-8087164600


=> DECADENCE NOW! Visions of Excess, Curator Otto M. Urban



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