
Exhibition catalogue from Rudolf Schwarzkogler at the UBC Fine Arts Gallery (23 April—22 May 1993) with texts by Scott Watson and Kristine Stiles.
Exhibition catalogue from Rudolf Schwarzkogler at the UBC Fine Arts Gallery (23 April—22 May 1993) with texts by Scott Watson and Kristine Stiles.
Rudolf Schwarzkogler (Austrian, 1940-1969) was a performance artist closely associated with the Viennese Actionism group. Born in Vienna, he attended the Graphic Teaching Institute there and later enrolled at the University of Applied Arts. His artistic work consists of paintings, montages, drawings and textual works. Actions were also part of his oeuvre, mostly documented photographically and performed without an audience. From the mid-1960s on, he created many of his works and collaborations within the framework of Viennese Actionism (Wiener Aktionismus) as one of the co-founders of the movement. The works often had a ritual, spiritual character. They dealt with medical as well as psychological themes, for which clinical utensils were used.
Scott Watson (Canadian, b. 1950) is Director Emeritus and Research Fellow at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia. A curator whose career has spanned more than thirty-five years, Watson is internationally recognized for his research and work in curatorial and exhibition studies, contemporary art and issues, and art theory and criticism. His distinctions include the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art (2010); the Alvin Balkind Award for Creative Curatorship in BC Arts (2008) and the UBC Dorothy Somerset Award for Performance Development in the Visual and Performing Arts (2005). Watson has published extensively in the areas of contemporary Canadian and international art. His 1990 monograph on Jack Shadbolt earned the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize in 1991. Recent publications include Letters: Michael Morris and Concrete Poetry (2015); Thrown: British Columbia’s Apprentices of Bernard Leach and their Contemporaries (2011), a finalist for the 2012 Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize; “Race, Wilderness, Territory and the Origins of the Modern Canadian Landscape” and “Disfigured Nature” (in Beyond Wilderness, McGill University Press, 2007); and “Transmission Difficulties: Vancouver Painting in the 1960s” (in Paint, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2006).