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12 x HERMANN NITSCH UNDER MY SKIN, contains a certificate of Authenticity by Hermann Nitsch signed; the 12 photos (paper size 50x40cm) and 4 pages text by Karlyn De Jongh and Sarah Gold, discribing their thoughts and feelings of Day 7, while being on the cross in the 130th Action by Hermann Nitsch in the Museo Nitsch, Naples, Italy.

Under My Skin (12) by Hermann Nitsch, created in 2010, is a powerful and visceral photographic series comprising twelve images that document a performance rooted in ritualistic and existential themes. Known for his provocative actions within the Viennese Actionism movement, Nitsch's work often explores themes of sacrifice, mortality, and the boundaries of human experience. This series captures moments from his 130th action at Museo Nitsch in Naples, Italy, where participants are depicted engaged in intense, staged scenes that evoke a sense of raw vulnerability and ritualistic catharsis. Covered in red liquid that resembles blood, the participants are positioned in ways reminiscent of religious iconography, particularly the Crucifixion, underscoring the connection between physicality, suffering, and transcendence. Under My Skin challenges viewers to confront themes of life, death, and the profound complexities of the human condition, invoking both shock and contemplation.

Hermann Nitsch (Austria, 1938–2022) was a pivotal figure in Viennese Actionism, renowned for his provocative performances that integrated painting, music, and ritualistic elements. His 'Orgien Mysterien Theater' challenged artistic boundaries, employing visceral materials like blood and animal entrails to evoke intense sensory experiences. Nitsch's work continues to influence contemporary performance art.

Hermann Nitsch

Under My Skin (12), 2010

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I try to show the people how it’s possible to live intensively.
- Hermann Nitsch

Hermann Nitsch was a multimedia artist from Austria. His work in multimedia involves depicting human excesses of many kinds, including abstract splatter pieces and performance art. Hermann Nitsch is most noted for his performance work Theater of Orgies and Mysteries (1962-1998) which included almost one hundred staged presentations.He has many abstract paintings which share the title Splatter Painting and are identified with the year of their creation. These are mostly combinations of oil and acrylic on canvas. Each has a predominant, focused area of paint and varied amounts of spills, drips and runs rolling down the canvas from the largest area. Typically painted in one range of color, such as all red, these paintings are intended to convey the intensity of the performances that generated them. They are backdrops to his live Aktion (or action) events held during the course of his Theater of Orgies and Mysteries staged events. During Hermann Nitsch's theatrical performances, he was known for incorporating themes of sacrifice and ritual while enacting brutal scenes of symbolic crucifixion, animal sacrifice, blood drinking, and a plethora of pagan rituals enlivened by robed processions, nudity, drunken excesses and the addition of viscera and entrails to the props and activities. Hermann Nitsch was called “the Pope of Aktionism” in Vienna. The movement sought to shun traditional painting and sculpture as being illusions rather than reality. In doing so, participants hoped to create art that existed in real time, using violence and the corporeal world as themes and subject matter. Hermann Nitsch and artists who embraced the ideals of Aktionism were both hated and praised for their performance art. Viewed by many as part of a cult, other artists in this movement included Rudolf Schwartzkogler, Gunter Brus and Otto Muhl. (Artist website)

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