Art in turn-of-century
Vienna
Klimt - Egon Schiele
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Replicas of Egon Schiele’s “Selfportrait with Chinese Lanterns.
/ Courtesy of Leopold Museum Vienna, Neue Galerie New York |
Klimt, Schiele featured in new Seoul Arts Center exhibition
By Kwon Mee-yoo
Austrian artist Gustav Klimt and his former student Egon Schiele are revered among art fans around the world, but particularly beloved in Korea.
There are only a few works in modern art that are recognized here as ubiquitously as Klimt’s "The Kiss.’’ Schiele’s paintings continue to be overused in magazines, postcards and home decor products sold in e-mart.
However, the local popularity of these Austrian artists, who had definitive influence in the art of turn-of-the-20th-century Vienna, had been matched with a paucity of exhibitions. The Seoul Arts Center’s "Golden Age Stories,’’ which continues through March 10 and features reproduced masterpieces of Klimt and Schiele approved by the Austrian government, represents the first Klimt-related display in Korea since 2009.
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Gustav Klimt’s “Adele Bloch-Bauer I” will be on display at the Seoul Arts Center through March 10.
/ Courtesy of Leopold Museum Vienna, Neue Galerie New York |
The 53 replicas in exhibit were created by TWIN, a specialist company which works actively with art institutions such as the Leopold Museum, which owns some critical works of Klimt and Schiele. According to its website, TWIN thrives to reproduce replicas in such a way that they appear ''absolutely identical’’ to the original by eye, and after touring the halls of the Seoul Arts Center, it’s hard to argue with the results.
The replicas, which were created in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Klimt's birth, have already traveled to galleries in Moscow, Beijing, Hanoi, Tokyo and Taipei before coming to Seoul.
"(A size of this exhibition) could never happen with the originals. The value for insurance alone would be somewhere between 750 million and 1 billion euros,’’ said Manfred Thumberger, art director of TWIN.
While the Klimt retrospective in 2009 already introduced Korean art-lovers to his renowned works such as "Judith I’’ and "Adam and Eva,’’ Golden Age Stories marks the first major exhibition showing Schiele’s works in a proper light.
Although they had been connected in life, the styles of Klimt and Schiele couldn’t be more different: Klimt’s works could be bluntly described as orderly and decorative. Schiele’s pieces are memorable for their explicitness that almost feels brutal.
As advanced as TWIN is in its technology, it did come up short of fully recreating the texture of old oil paintings. Still, the job on Klimt’s paintings using oil and gold leaf, such as “The Kiss” and "Adele Bloch-Bauer I,’’ was superb.
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