Considering the Collection & The Day You Were Thinking About the Sibyl While You Were Picking Autumn Leaves An Insert by Ana Torfs
The format Considering the Collection & An Insert by … features highlights from the collection of the Paintings Gallery as well as installations and groups of works conceived as inserts by contemporary artists and incorporated into the temporary arrangement from the permanent collection. The insert by Belgian artist Ana Torfs is the third presentation in this series.
Pandemic events such as the Black Death have always accompanied art history against the backdrop of end-times eschatology. Depictions of Sibyls have been a popular motif in art history; indeed, they represent an iconographic and mythological tradition that can be seen from the historical perspective of the ever-shifting evaluation of female prophecy.
Ana Torfs’s installation is juxtaposed with historical works from the Art Collections of the Academy and the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien.
Torfs’s works were produced in collaboration with TextielLab, the specialist workshop of the TextielMuseum Tilburg.
Curated by Sabine Folie and Synne Genzmer
Considering the Collection ... focuses on works from the Baroque period, first and foremost from the legacy of Anton Franz de Paula Count Lamberg-Sprinzenstein in 1822, and on works from the ambit of Vienna’s Academy of Fine Arts around 1800. On display alongside popular masterpieces such as Anthony van Dyck’s Self-Portrait, Samuel van Hoogstraten’s Trompe l’Oeil Still Life, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo’s Young Boys Playing Dice and Martin Ferdinand Quadal’s Life Class at the Vienna Art Academy in the St Anne Building are rarely seen works that include Forest Landscape with Pond by Jacob van Ruisdael, The Peddler by Godfried Schalcken, and Self-Portrait by Friedrich von Amerling. There are repeatedly references between the paintings in the collection and the 28 tapestries by Ana Torfs, divided into four sections of seven pieces each.
Works by Willem van Aelst, Friedrich von Amerling, Herri met de Bles, Hieronymus Bosch, Dieric Bouts, Joos van Cleve, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Anthony van Dyck, Barent Fabritius, Heinrich Friedrich Füger, Jan Fyt, Luca Giordano, Jan van Goyen, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Hans Baldung Grien, Jacob Jordaens, Johann Baptist von Lampi the Younger, Nicola Malinconico, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Martin Ferdinand Quadal, Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Peter Paul Rubens, Jacob van Ruisdael, Isaack van Ruisdael, Pierre Subleyras, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller and others
Curated by Claudia Koch
List of entries
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Guided tour
in the exhibition
The Day You Were Thinking About the Sibyl
While You Were Picking Autumn Leaves
An Insert by Ana Torfs
with Sabine Folie, curator, and Ana Torfs, artist (in English)Schillerplatz
Paintings Gallery
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Sunday tour
Overview tour through the exhibition Considering the Collection & The Day You Were Thinking About the Sibyl While You Were Picking Autumn Leaves An Insert by Ana Torfs
Schillerplatz
Paintings Gallery
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Sunday tour
Overview tour through the exhibition Considering the Collection & The Day You Were Thinking About the Sibyl While You Were Picking Autumn Leaves An Insert by Ana Torfs
Schillerplatz
Paintings Gallery
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Sunday tour
Overview tour through the exhibition Considering the Collection & The Day You Were Thinking About the Sibyl While You Were Picking Autumn Leaves An Insert by Ana Torfs
Schillerplatz
Paintings Gallery