
Ausstellungsansicht / Installation view
Ernst Caramelle. Ein Résumé / A Résumé, mumok, 30.11.2018–28.4.2018
Bildmitte / In the center: Untitled, 1988–1999
Photo: Klaus Pichler
© mumok
Ausstellungsansicht / Installation view
Ernst Caramelle. Ein Résumé / A Résumé, mumok, 30.11.2018–28.4.2018
Bildmitte / In the center: Untitled, 1988–1999
Photo: Klaus Pichler
© mumok
Ausstellungsansicht / Installation view
Ernst Caramelle. Ein Résumé / A Résumé, mumok, 30.11.2018–28.4.2018
Video-Ping-Pong, 1974, Courtesy Sammlung Generali Foundation / Generali Foundation Collection
Photo: Klaus Pichler
© mumok
Ausstellungsansicht / Installation view
Ernst Caramelle. Ein Résumé / A Résumé, mumok, 30.11.2018–28.4.2018
Wandmalerei / Wallpainting: O.T. (Untitled), 2018
Photo: Klaus Pichler
© mumok
mumok is presenting the first comprehensive retrospective of the work of the Austrian artist Ernst Caramelle. The exhibition includes all the phases of his work from 1974 to the present and attractively combines the artist’s various media and conceptual approaches.
This exhibition does not focus entirely on chronology, but rather on the connections between works in different media (photos, videos, and reproductions of media images), mural painting, the so-called Gesso Pieces and Sun Pieces, drawings, watercolors, and prints.
Caramelle’s work combines both abstraction and emblematic figuration—up to the point of floral formlessness. Formats vary from miniatures to large-scale wall paintings. Thematically, these works in many different media explore perception, the nature of space, media representation, artistic productivity, and the role of the artist and his embroilment in the market and with the museum.
Ernst Caramelle will paint two new murals for mumok, with both thematic and formal links to the works in the exhibition.
Curated by Sabine Folie