Andrea Hope, 2018
Another in my 2018 European holiday series.
It’s wonderful to discover artworks that you haven’t seen before and the Heidi Horten Collection at the Leopold Museum in Vienna provided me with another opportunity to do just that.
The Heidi Horton Collection contains more than 170 works spanning a hundred years from Expressionism through to pop art.
Heidi Goesse-Horton has been expanding her collection since the 1990s and has built one of the most impressive private collections in Europe. It contains over 500 paintings, graphic works and sculptures.
You can see more more about the Collection at http://www.hortencollection.com and http://www.leopoldmuseum.org
Luckily the exhibition had been extended from the end of July to early September or I would have missed it.
The standout pieces for me included the Rothko I saw as I entered the exhibition,
A beautiful Joseph Albers demonstrating his use of colours and design (the photo doesn’t do it justice),
a simple Matisse drawing,
This Kees von Dongen, with its controlled design and muted palette,
and another Expressionist work, this time by August Macke.
And finally a work by Michelangelo Pisteletto, simply because of its creativity (a mirror with two figures appearing to look over a railing).
Kiama Art Gallery 