Once upon a time the Euro Vision Song Contest a ridiculed pop event, today it is a festival of joy for many creative minds. Surveying a career
Uzari and Maimuna of Belarus in the first semifinal of the 60th Euro Vision Song Contest in Vienna | © Leonhard Foeger / Reuters
When it the term Arte Povera did not already exist, then one would have to invent it for this exhibition: amateurish painting in oil and vinegar, painted with coarse line on chunky wooden planks. The hanging follows the principle of chaos, sometimes high, sometimes low, as it happens. The plant names have been casually scribbled with pen.
These are portraits that show personalities like Fud Leclerc, Jahn Teigen, Sebahudin Kurt or Eleonore Schwarz. People who nobody knows and that have one thing in common: they took part in the Euro Vision Song Contest (ESC) and ended the evening without bringing even a single point home. The Nul-pointer is called logical Tree Gallery of absolute loser who installed the cartoonist, Bachmann prize winners and part-time painter Tex Rubinowitz at Vienna’s Leopold Museum. “Winners are boring,” he says.. “I’m interested in a lot more, like bypass total loser with their defeat and how to deal with them as the Norwegians Jahn Teigen in 1978 with zero points came home, he was comforted and up. As Thomas Forstner with Venice in the rain suffered the same fate, whole bucket full of hate and malice poured at home in Austria about him. This is shown by differences in the national character. ”
When a hipper artists like Tex Rubinowitz may spread to a reputable museum with an exhibition around the Song Contest, this indicates that the event has obviously undergone a tremendous societal appreciation in recent years. For decades the stale Song Contest, which was modeled after the Festival of San Remo in 1957 and for a long time, the docile aroma of stuffy intimate fifties preserved, ridiculed by progressive spirits, if not loathed. Meanwhile, the European Wettsingen for many from the ranks of creative minds has become a must-attend event. They are all people who usually have taste and intelligence have a flair for the subtle differences. “Here’s looking at me not being ironic on” asserts Rubinowitz. “I’ve never seen ironically rather interested.? How do these people move, as is their song built is the mediocre, or what, in view of a world success”
The artist is certainly not only in underground and counterculture rooted bohemian, the ESC brings to benevolent interest. For creative directors and Text bosses at directors, DJs, app designers, air guitarists living artists or hipsters with beard and tattoos on the forearm, so with people who never in life to Musikantenstadl or Carmen Nebel would consider it heard for some time become a popular habit to pop in May at the Song Contest the cork every year. One likes to gather in a large group – “Alone you can not see because it is depressed,” admits Rubinowitz – and can revolve alcoholic beverages. It concluded small bet on their own favorites, and it participates in the spectacle with screaming, cheering and groaning, as if it were a thrilling football evening.
For unironic handling the Song Contest People profess in Austria as the writer Manfred Rebhandl, the artist Ursula Hübner, a professor at the Art University of Linz, or the Italian-born gallery owner and performer Salvatore Viviano, who often shared occurs with the artist group Gelitin.
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