China strikes back as artists push envelope Apr 27, 2006
At the White Space gallery, a performance-art video by Austrian artist Hermann Nitsch, which involves handling what appears to be excrement, and a mock crucifixion of several women in which "blood" is poured all over the body - has brought no comment by Ministry of Culture reviewers. FORBIDDEN MESSAGE: Works with overt political messages, like Gao Qiang's 'Memory Pierced By Bullet' still attract the attention of authorities. (Christian Science Monitor)
Hermann Nitsch and Yang Shaobin at White Space Beijing Apr 19, 2006
Works by Hermann Nitsch and Yang Shaobin are shown at White Space Beijing through June 11, 2006. The Austrian artist Hermann Nitsch is considered the most important pioneer of Vienna Actionism, which initially made a name for itself with action painting influenced by tachism and abstract expressionism in the 1950s ... After Hermann Nitsch was exhibited in China for the first time, Nitsch's part in the exhibition follows this idea. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Review: Carnal meets spiritual in Nitsch exhibition Apr 23, 2005
HERMANN NITSCH: THE ORGIES MYSTERIES THEATER ... Blood and guts, angst and expiation, throb together in Hermann Nitsch's The Orgies Mysteries Theater ... Gary Fountain: For the Chronicle Artist Hermann Nitsch uses cruelty and color as theater in Picture of Resurrection 2003. (Houston Chronicle)
Saatchi's alleged Triumph of Painting is in for a long fight Feb 1, 2005
It is Hermann Nitsch, the "pope of Viennese Aktionism," whose followers would, among other things, stage performances using disemboweled animals. Nitsch, who has been jailed in the past in Austria for his performances, is trailed by a group of German-speaking reporters. (Globe and Mail -- EntertainmentTP)
"Peter Lew: O Positive - The Blood Drawings" Nov 13, 2003
The first solo exhibition of New York based artist Peter Lew is comprised of approximately 10 drawings which simultaneously reference Chinese calligraphy, the abstractions of Jackson Pollacks action paintings, and the performance drawings of Hermann Nitsch and Yves Klein. As an artist whose ancestral roots hail from the Canton region in China, and who was educated and raised in the United States, his work encompasses a trajectory of pictorial modes of artistic representation from western... (Absolutearts.com)
