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VIENNA EXCURSION – VISIT OF THE EXHIBITIONS FRIDA KAHLO: RETROSPECTIVE AND PICASSO: PEACE AND FREEDOM  

Saturday, 27 November 2010, departure 6.00 – arrival 22.00  

We kindly invite you to the Vienna excursion organized by the UGM. You have the opportunity to visit exhibitions Frida Kahlo: Retrospective (Bank Austria Kunstforum) and Picasso: Peace and Freedom (Albertina). In the afternoon you can visit other exhibitions of your choice. 

price: 62 € / 43,40 € (members of the UGM Club)
price includes: admissions and a guided tour of the exhibition Frida Kahlo, bus transport, tour organization and accident insurance
additional payment:  admission for exhibitions of your choice
booking: at UGM Ticket Office (Tuesday –Sunday from 10.00 to 18.00) until Monday, 22 November 2010 or until vacancies are available
information: 02 / 22 94 693 (UGM Ticket Office), infoping@ugmpong.si

PROGRAMME: Guided tour of the exhibition Frida Kahlo: Retrospective and individual visit of the exhibition Picasso: Peace and Freedom. The exhibitions present two great artists of the 20th century, their personal life and their critical view of society. The art work of Frida Kahlo is the mirror of her life story, marked by a horrific accident and illness as well as her courage. Pablo Picasso’s characteristic style reflects social and political relations of his time, rising above the narrow framework of the period after the World War II.           

GUIDED TOUR WILL BE IN ENGLISH AND GERMAN!

In the afternoon you can visit other exhibitions of your choice. During the Christmas season Vienna galleries offer a variety of exhibitions and the city itself a wide selection of interesting art monuments. Here are some of the exhibitions you might find interesting:   

Michelangelo. The Drawings of a Genius (Albertina), Cézanne - Picasso – Giacometti. Masterpieces from the Fondation Beyeler (Leopold Museum), Collection Vienna Insurance Group (Leopold Museum), The Moderns. Revolutions in Art and Science 1890-1935 (Museum Moderner Kunst), Hyper Real. The Passion of the Real in Painting and Photography (Museum Moderner Kunst), Power up – Female Pop Art (Kunsthalle Wien).  

6.00 departure from Maribor (Josip Jurčič Monument)
9.30 arrival to Vienna
10.00-12.30 guided tour of the exhibition Frida Kahlo: Retrospective
12.30-14.00 lunchtime
14.00-16.00 visiting of the Picasso: Peace and Freedom exhibition
16.00-19.00 free time for visiting other exhibitions
19.00 departure from Vienna
22.00 foreseen arrival to Maribor  

UGM reserves the right to change this programme at any time. You can cancel your reservation at latest on the 17 November 2010 otherwise we will not return your fee, accept in the case of a proven force majeure.         
FRIDA KAHLO: RETROSPECTIVE presents the Mexican artist attaining a myth status with her amazing life story, talent and strong personality. Frida Kahlo’s oeuvre comprises diverse fine art periods including Surrealism, Naturalism and New Objectivity connected with her compositions springing out of her inner life. Her art work reflects social changes such as “renaissance” of the Mexican culture and feminism. The exhibition presents around 60 paintings, 80 works on paper and 20 objects from public and private collections in Mexico and the USA. Her art work is supplemented by documentary photographic material from Frida Kahlo's grandniece Christina Kahlo.

PICASSO: PEACE AND FREEDOM  exhibition is organised by Tate Liverpool in collaboration with the Albertina, Vienna. The exhibition presents art works from 1944 to 1973 when the artist was a member of the Communist Party. Not many studies of Picasso’s oeuvre considered this aspect of his creating therefore this exhibition presents a comprehensive insight into the artist’s political and social critical attitude, his involvement in the peace movement and his attempt to exceed political and aesthetical opposition between West and East by artistic expression. The exhibition is supplemented by archive materials, artist’s letters and newspaper articles.

The Vienna ALBERTINA houses one of the most important art collections in the world. It is well known for its graphic collection from the 15th century and onwards - among many we can admire art works by Master E.S., Martin Schongauer, Albrecht Dürer, Peter Paul Rubens, as well as for its important collection of paintings by Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko, Francis Bacon, … Each year Albertina stages a variety of interesting exhibitions by the great artists of fine arts. The palace, built in the Neoclassical style in 1744, is named after Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen (1738-1822), a son-in-law of Austrian Empress Maria Theresa. In the 19th century the building changed due a few reconstructions and in the World War II a bomb attack damaged the building. The palace underwent complete renovation in the last decade of the 21th century, restoring the facades and canopying the entrance with a wing-shaped roof. The daring structure has become the hallmark of the new Albertina.

BANK AUSTRIA KUNSTFORUM the first exhibition space in Austria commencing out of a private business company. In 1988 the Austrian Regional State Bank built at the time most modern exhibition building based on the plans of the architect Gustav Peichel. With its exhibitions it became a well known art centre redoubling its exhibition spaces in 1992/93. Every year, more than 250 000 people visit the exhibitions and the gallery is cooperating with all important museums from all over the world like the Guggenheim Museum in New York as well as with important private collectors like Bernard Picasso, Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch from Berlin, ...