Kristian Vstrup Madsen
"Good doesn't cut it: quality and quantity
in the reception history of Vermeer“
a Lecture on Monday, January
22nd, 7 pm
at University of Applied
Arts, Vordere Zollamtsstr. 7, 5th Floor, SE 20
In the mid 18th century, the
King of Saxony bought a Vermeer because he was told it was a
Rembrandt, and he believed it. A few decades on, the King of
France declined to buy a Vermeer because it was not a
Rembrandt. Vermeer has always been good – anyone could see
that. But good doesn’t cut it when you’re selling to kings,
oil barons, financiers, and rappers. His example tells us
that, across art history, from Old Masters to
post-postmodernists, quality is not a given, but subject to
trend and capital. In this lecture, Kristian Vistrup Madsen
traces how value was attributed to Vermeer's paintings, and
how value, over time, made us see those paintings
differently.
Kristian Vistrup Madsen is a writer and art critic based in Berlin. He has contributed to magazines such as Artforum, Harpers, The White Review, and Kunstkritikk. Doing Time: Essays on Using People was published by Floating Opera Press in 2021.
and
"The (Great) Kristian Vistrup
Madsen Show. Contemporaneity in Postmedieval Times"
an exhibition
opening on Tuesday, January 23rd, 6 pm
at University
of Applied Arts, Oskar Kokoschka Platz 2, Painting
Department, Studios 610 and 621
a cooperation
with the departments Philosophy and Painting, in the context
of Kathrin Heinrich’s seminar „Art Criticism“.
Univ.-Prof.
Dr. Eva Kernbauer
Universität
für angewandte Kunst Wien | University
of Applied Arts Vienna
Abteilung
Kunstgeschichte | Art History
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