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Vernissage Padhi Frieberger in Studio 18 Gallery
17.06.08-6.30 p.m- on Waehringer Guertel 75 - 1180 Vienna
Herbert Kuhner
Charlie came first and then came Buster. Charlie pratfell and caused pratfalls, and he battered around with the heavies. Charlie had a mean streak but Buster was gentle. The Looney Tunes cartoon characters carried on in the roughhouse manner. […]

The list of Austrian poets that Herbert Kuhner has rendered into English reads like Who’s Who in modern Austrian poetry.
- Harry Zohn, Brandeis University, Modern Austrian Literature, Riverside, CA
The translations are impressive (poems by Johannes Urzidil). I would like to express my undivided admiration for Herbert Kuhner. He has remained true to the originals and […]

Tricolore Pictures/Trikolore Bilder
May 21st - June 16th 2008-05-21
Galerie Suppan * Contemporary
Habsburgergasse 5, 1010 Vienna
Mo.-Fri. 10-18 * Sat. 10-12: 30
Tel. +43 1 535 535 4
info@suppancontemporary.com
www.suppancontemporary.com
Florentina Pakosta
The subject of Florentina Pakosta’s paintings is often the common man. He turns up in oils, dull and blunt in earthen and mud colors with touches of ochre, as well as […]

Other directors can make films on important themes. I like to go to see them. However, I prefer to make films using details that others edit out. I’ve always been interested in the little things that are considered unimportant but that make up most of our lives.
- Jim Jarmusch
Yes, Jim takes those details and weaves […]

Barney Kulok - Compositions Photographique
April 5th - May 13th 2008
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot
Galerie d’Art Contemporain
5 bis rue des haudriettes
75003 Paris
Téléphone 01 48 87 60 81 - Fax 01 48 87 05 01
info@galeriehussenot.com
Photographic Compositions by Barney Kulok
Barney Kulok has termed his photographic compositions “Simple Facts.” This is an apt description. The facts are indeed simple, but they […]

Herbert Kuhner is an exceedingly weak author who would certainly not be able to represent Austria in any way….I sincerely regret that Herbert Kuhner feels himself persecuted by me and failure (apparently one and the same)….Mr. Kuhner already has a reputation in Vienna for making totally unfounded accusations….He is in a different psychological situation. There […]

Herbert Kuhner
A contorted manikin piss, with the stream directed orally, symbolizes man’s capacity for self- nourishment. It was set up at the Salzburg Festival as art, but its practicality belies that categorization. And the act depicted is not an innovation; Gunter Brus, the actionist, has been doing precisely that for decades.
However, Damian Hirst’s platinum skull […]

No Art Without Artists/Revisited Museum of Applied Arts, […]

Schocken Books, 1985
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This fine bilingual anthology draws together the work of 45 contemporary Austrian poets. They are inheritors of a distinct literary tradition which combined strong linguistic self-consciousness with a tendency toward experimentation….This collection is of particular value because it makes many first-rate works of poetry available to the English public […]

Herbert Kuhner
The subject of Florentina Pakosta’s paintings is often the common man. He turns up in oils, dull and blunt in earthen and mud colors with touches of ochre, as well as in graphics. Sometimes he’s depicted singly and sometimes in crowds. When he appears in company, he usually appears in his own company, […]

Photographic Compositions by Barney Kulok
Barney Kulok’s exhibition of photographs at the Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery in New York
is aptly called “Simple Facts “The facts are indeed simple, and they lose their simplicity through the process of being photographed, only to find a new simplicity, in the best sense of the word. Kulok uses his lens like […]

Fritz Kleibel’s filmic exhibit, titled padhi.tv shown at Wienstation Gürtelbogen 28 on June 2, 2007 consists of a series of short films from 2 to five minutes long. His subject matter is the Austrian object artist and photographer Padhi Frieberger. We see Padhi at various locations at work, washing pots, walking to a brook with […]

The jury, which is independent of the Municipal Cultural Department has unanimously cast its vote against this book (Der Ausschluss/Memoirs of a 39er)….I feel that I must adhere to that decision.
- Dr. Ursula Pasterk, the Municipal Cultural Coordinator of the City of Vienna
Your behavior is revolting and uncouth. You have a persecution complex.
- Peter Bochskanl, […]

After Returning to the Scene of the Crime: Herbert Kuhner was forced to leave Austria in 1939. In his Memoirs Kuhner presents the balance sheet. His book deals with his experiences after returning to the “new Austria.” In it he describes the incredible chain of intrigue, baseness and calumny that he has encountered. The aspects […]

Herbert Kuhner is an exceedingly weak author who could never represent Austria in any way.
- Wolfgang Kraus, Head of the Austrian Literary Society.
If you are man enough, you will apologize to Dr. Kraus.
- Gregor Woschnagg, Austrian Foreign Office
Kuhner is an insignificant author and will never read on our premises.
- Reinhard Urbach, Austrian Literary Society.
He […]