A HOUSE FOR EGON SCHIELE

 

 

It can only be fall in Schiele's paintings... The house of Fall... no spring, no summer, not even winter... all of the above preserve, while the fall brings melancholia, decay, everything moves downwards, the sun included...

It is the season of spiraling downwards... together with Schiele... and not even a frantic sexuality can save us.

Fall, dear architect, together with Schiele, descend, together with the rusted leaves of the trees, together with the rain that is beginning to pour, together with the dark clouds, closer and closer and darker and darker...!

The neurosis of life is inescapable... the trees are contorted, the houses are contorted, the bodies are contorted, and an exacerbated, sad sexuality is quite unable to help... Nothing at all can arrest the irrepressible, fatidic downwards spiraling...      

                                                                         

A HOUSE FOR EGON SCHIELE

 

The House of "DEVIANT BEHAVIOR"

 

The HOUSE OF DEPRESSION

A trembling House...

 

 A House in a frenzy...

 

A House on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

 

A House with fibrillations

 

A House with dead sunflowers in the windows.

 

A House with spread legs and red stockings

 

The house of di  S con ti nuiti es

 

A House with red hair

 

A House with its lonely sex irrelevantly divulged

 

A House for a Cardinal and a Nun (caressed).

 

A House surrounded by leafless, trembling trees.

 

A House out of balance

 

The House of Lonely Sex (even when in two)

 

A House with Convulsions

 

A House with Febrile Seizures

 

A House with unste ady hands

 

A House in need of a psychiatrist

 

The House for hopeless lovemaking

 

The House for Staring at Each Other

 

The House of Emptiness

 

The House of Sex and Emptiness

 

The House of Sexless Words

 

The House of Wordless Sex

 

THE HOUSE OF ROTTEN FLOWERS

 

THE HOUSE OF CONTORTED BODIES

 

THE HOUSE OF FRENZIED, DESPERATE, LONELY (LOVELESS?) EROTICISM

 

THE HOUSE OF NEUROTIC TREES

 

THE HOUSE OF SCHISMATIC EMBRACES

 

THE HOUSE OF NEUROSIS

 

THE HOUSE OF PUTRID, LONELY S  E X U A L I T   Y

 

THE HOUSE OF DEPRESSION

 

THE HOUSE OF DEAD MOTHERS, BLIND MOTHERS, DEAD BLIND PREGNANT WOMEN...

 

A DEVIANT HOUSE...

 

In Schiele ONAN, MASOCH and deSADE meet with clinical precision and intensity.

 

Excess and Punishment.

 

DELINQUENCY

 

What is the meaning of the word "delinquent...?"

 

Who is to decide to throw the stone, at the DELINQUENT...?

 

Who can do it, knowing all too well that the Son of God couldn't do it...?

 

But man can, and he does it.

 

But maybe he has some alibi... after all, it is not easy to be The Grand Inquisitor, on this earth.

 

It is probably much easier in Havens.

 

"DEVIANT BEHAVIOR" found a supreme example in Schiele's life and work.

 

But the Excess and Punishment of Schiele's life and work are well illustrated in the 1980s film with the same title by Herbert Vesely.

 

 

As always, we invite ANY work, ANY size and ANY format that responds to the theme. Please send it to this e-mail address. We will publish all the works received on our website. There is an entry fee of 30E (15E for students) payable through the registration section of our website. This fee will entitle you to participate in any other competition that we initiate, without paying another fee. The merit awards will have this chance twice, while the winners, three times. Thus we hope to be able to encourage and enhance creativity in architecture, which is the true aim of our activities. Those of you who already participated in any of our past competitions, do not have to pay an entry fee. The registration deadline is May 12th, 2010. The deadline for submitting your work is June 12th, 2010 (Schiele's 120th birthday). If you have any other questions please be kind and let us know.

 

Thank you,

 

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