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VUNU gallery is pleased to present the second solo exhibition of Lausanne-based artist Tudor Ciurescu with VUNU, now in Vienna. The exhibition brings together sculptural and pictorial works that engage with the visual afterlife of authority–how systems such as psychoanalysis, religion, science, and political ideology continue to operate through images, even after their claims to certainty have weakened.
The central scene of W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (1971), directed by Dušan Makavejev, takes place in the shared apartment of two female comrades. One evening, they host a touring Soviet ice-skating champion. During a heated debate on the emancipation of love and sexuality, the wall of the room suddenly gives way under the force of a drunken worker bursting in. The collapsing wall bears a portrait of Wilhelm Reich–the film’s central figure–who believed that sexual energy was a tangible, revolutionary force. Reich argued that repressed sexual energy forms a kind of “body armor,”…
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VUNU gallery is pleased to present the second solo exhibition of Lausanne-based artist Tudor Ciurescu with VUNU, now in Vienna. The exhibition brings together sculptural and pictorial works that engage with the visual afterlife of authority–how systems such as psychoanalysis, religion, science, and political ideology continue to operate through images, even after their claims to certainty have weakened.
The central scene of W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (1971), directed by Dušan Makavejev, takes place in the shared apartment of two female comrades. One evening, they host a touring Soviet ice-skating champion. During a heated debate on the emancipation of love and sexuality, the wall of the room suddenly gives way under the force of a drunken worker bursting in. The collapsing wall bears a portrait of Wilhelm Reich–the film’s central figure–who believed that sexual energy was a tangible, revolutionary force. Reich argued that repressed sexual energy forms a kind of “body armor,”…










