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Hermann Nitsch - from sunrise onwards
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Waldstraße 44-46, 2130 Mistelbach
"I wanted to become a church painter," Hermann Nitsch once said about himself. He did not become a church painter – yet the sacred forms the innermost core of his world-famous Gesamtkunstwerk, the Orgien Mysterien Theater. Since his first theoretical drafts in 1957, Nitsch understood religious rituals from all cultures as sensual, symbolically condensed forms that lead into the depths of human existence. Chalices, crosses, monstrances, and liturgical colors are for him not mere quotes, but carriers of an existential experience.
Growing up in the Catholic-influenced Vienna of the 1940s and 1950s, Nitsch recognized early on that the sensuality of these rites – their physicality, their smells, colors, sounds – was in danger of disappearing in modern society. His Orgien Mysterien Theater was meant to reclaim this intensity: a space where life is experienced in all its extremes – joy and pain, birth and death, overwhelm and liberation.
The exhibition "Hermann Nitsch. from sunrise on" is dedicated to this sensual dimension of his work. Paintings in liturgical colors, landscape photographs, videos, and sound elements coalesce into an atmospheric experiential space. Nature – the Weinviertel, the light, the elements – becomes the central setting: In the 6-Day Play, the most comprehensive project of the O.M. Theater, each phase begins "from sunrise on." It is nature itself that determines the rhythm of this work.
Nitsch understood his theater as an aesthetic ritual of existence. The festival becomes drama, the drama becomes catharsis. The world is to be embraced – in its beauty and its cruelty, its possibilities for happiness and its abysses. The goal is a state of heightened perception, a mystical condensation of one's own existence that elevates into a comprehensive sense of being alive.
Growing up in the Catholic-influenced Vienna of the 1940s and 1950s, Nitsch recognized early on that the sensuality of these rites – their physicality, their smells, colors, sounds – was in danger of disappearing in modern society. His Orgien Mysterien Theater was meant to reclaim this intensity: a space where life is experienced in all its extremes – joy and pain, birth and death, overwhelm and liberation.
The exhibition "Hermann Nitsch. from sunrise on" is dedicated to this sensual dimension of his work. Paintings in liturgical colors, landscape photographs, videos, and sound elements coalesce into an atmospheric experiential space. Nature – the Weinviertel, the light, the elements – becomes the central setting: In the 6-Day Play, the most comprehensive project of the O.M. Theater, each phase begins "from sunrise on." It is nature itself that determines the rhythm of this work.
Nitsch understood his theater as an aesthetic ritual of existence. The festival becomes drama, the drama becomes catharsis. The world is to be embraced – in its beauty and its cruelty, its possibilities for happiness and its abysses. The goal is a state of heightened perception, a mystical condensation of one's own existence that elevates into a comprehensive sense of being alive.
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