The Estate of Heinz Frank

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The Estate of Heinz Frank <br>
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Heinz Frank (1939–2020) was within the Viennese art scene, the grand master of the play of language and forms through which he – in his perambulation through the locales of the city, and clad in his idiosyncratic, dandyesque attire – pitted a radical form of subjectivity against the conventions of the present day. Each of his exhibitions formed a stage for the performance of a drama that was usually enacted by paintings, sculptures, objects, items of furniture, masks, carpets, and rocks, as well as found objects, one whose protagonists were (for example) “nothingness, the immensity of the hole, the circle whose center pledges its loyalty.” Wordplays are an essential element of Frank’s oeuvre. Using “whichever paper,” Frank notated his ideas in micropoems and aphorisms, which resemble haikus. He used pencils because they are “erasable, then the texts can come back when needed.” These texts were the beginning and the end of every work, a process of thought and its visualisation by the means of objects.

Gallery exhibitions
EX LIBRIS Chapter II, 2023
The hole and the mirror, 2020
Le Hangar, 2020
Concetto spaziale, 2019
DAS LOCH IN MEINER SEELE UND IHR GLÄSERNES KLEID, 2018

Exhibitions
Group-exhibition
"Das Tier in Dir – Kreaturen aus und jenseits der mumok Sammlung"
mumok, Vienna
22.09.2022–26.02.2023
www.mumok.at

Screening
"gewesen sein wird / will have been"
short film by Sasha Pirker of the apartment of Heinz Frank
Metro Kino, Vienna
06.06.2023 at 6pm

Recent Press
Kunstforum International, 2022
Michael Hübl, GIGERLS GESAMTKUNSTWERK


artnet, November 17, 2021
Amah-Rose Abrams, Viennese Artist’s Historic Art-Filled
Apartment Is at Risk After His Landlord Refused to Extend
the Lease to His Estate