Image: David Salle • Robert Longo • Gilbert & George • Gerwald Rockenschaub
David Salle, Room with blue statue, 1986 Oil, acrylic and light sensitive linen on canvas © ALBERTINA Vienna – The ESSL Collection
Museum Exhibition

David Salle • Robert Longo • Gilbert & George • Gerwald Rockenschaub The 80s. Art of the Eighties

Until 13 February 2022
Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria

The exhibition "The 80s" at ALBERTINA MODERN presents over 160 works by artists who not only defined this decade, but whose work reaches far into the art of the 21st century. 

The 80s are the most important decade for the art of our age. For the first time, art was no longer determined by an all-dominant style, such as abstraction or Pop. The 80s stand out for an unprecedented stylistic pluralism that resorted to the picture pool of past decades: the 80s were the cradle of Postmodernism.

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