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Untitled (spin painting)

Ohne Titel (Rotationsbild)
Untitled (spin painting)
Gesamtansicht, Voransicht
Untitled (spin painting)
Alfons Schilling, Ohne Titel (Rotationsbild), 1962, Dispersion auf Molino, 232 × 5 cm, Belvedere, Wien, Inv.-Nr. 12274
Foto: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wien
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  • Untitled (spin painting)

  • Date1962
    • Artist Alfons Schilling (1934 Basel – 2013 Wien)
  • Object typePainting
  • MediumDispersion auf Molino
  • Dimensions
    232 × 5 cm
  • SignatureSign. und dat. auf der Rückseite: Schilling 1962
  • Inventory number12274
  • Location Belvedere 21
  • Credit LineAnkauf aus dem Nachlass Alfons Schilling

  • When Alfons Schilling began studying at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna in the mid-1950s, he became part of a postwar Austrian art scene undergoing a period of upheaval and reorientation. Even his early expressive, abstract paintings challenged the tradition of panel painting and made him a driving force within Viennese Actionism. Subsequently, Schilling’s interest shifted from pictorial expression to processes of perception, which he explored in experimental setups using kinetic and optical effects. During a five-month stay in Paris in 1962, he created the series of „Rotationsbilder“ (spin paintings), in which a circular support is set in motion by an electric motor. While he worked directly on the canvas with a brush at lower speeds, rapid rotation only allowed for the pouring of paint. The spinning support makes dynamism the work’s defining principle, leading to a destabilizing visual experience.
    • 2013 Nachlass Alfons Schilling, Wien
    • 2025 Ankauf Privatbesitz, Wien
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