Short-documentary realized in collaboration with Zuecca Projects to tell the major exhibition of Austrian artist Hermann Nitsch (1938 – 2022), presented by Helmut Essl’s private collection in collaboration with Galerie Kandlhofer, featuring 20th painting action, which was originally created and presented at the Wiener Secession, Vienna in 1987.
The 20th painting action is the artist’s only painting action to remain in one collection, and the exhibition marks the first time that the works will be seen together in Italy since their original creation and exhibition. Nitsch was a pioneering artist of Viennese Actionism whose painting is positioned at the start of his action art and this exhibition it also allows Nitsch’s artistic ideas located between the ecstatic and the contemplative to be re-traced and re-experienced.