Lee Krasner, Uncaged, 1960, ASOM Collection. Installation view, Ways of Freedom, Albertina Modern, Vienna. © Sandro E. E. Zanzinger
Ways of Freedom: Jackson Pollock to Maria Lassnig examines the creative interplay between abstract expressionism and informalism in the context of transatlantic dialogue from the mid-1940s to the end of the Cold War. In contrast to Nazi art and socialist realism, it was involuntarily that American abstraction became involved in the ideological competition over the question of who better represented society—a contest that saw the Americans’ complete freedom, born of an abstinence from reality, pitted against the verisimilitude that characterised the art of the communist countries and the Soviet Union.
ASOM Collection is proud to contribute 11 works by Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell, Perle Fine, Franz Kline, Pierre Soulages, Lee Krasner, Hans Hartung, Morris Louis, Georges Mathieu and Emilio Vedova to this international dialogue of over 100 works.
Joan Mitchell, Untitled (Red Tree), 1957, ASOM Collection. Installation view, Ways of Freedom, Albertina Modern, Vienna. © Sandro E. E. Zanzinger
Pierre Soulages, Peinture 125 x 200, 24 Juin 1959, 1959, ASOM Collection. Installation view, Ways of Freedom, Albertina Modern, Vienna. © Sandro E. E. Zanzinger
Helen Frankenthaler, April Mood, 1974, ASOM Collection. Installation view, Ways of Freedom, Albertina Modern, Vienna. © Sandro E. E. Zanzinger
RIGHT Franz Kline, Sassoon, 1955, ASOM Collection. Installation view, Ways of Freedom, Albertina Modern, Vienna. © Sandro E. E. Zanzinger
Lee Krasner, Bald Eagle, ASOM Collection. Installation view, Ways of Freedom, Albertina Modern, Vienna. © Sandro E. E. Zanzinger
Emilio Vedova, Ciclo 1961 B-2, 1962, ASOM Collection. Installation view, Ways of Freedom, Albertina Modern, Vienna. © Sandro E. E. Zanzinger
RIGHT Perle Fine, Winter Image, 1958, ASOM Collection. Installation view, Ways of Freedom, Albertina Modern, Vienna. © Sandro E. E. Zanzinger
Georges Mathieu, Hommage au Connetable de Bourbon, 1959, ASOM Collection. Installation view, Ways of Freedom, Albertina Modern, Vienna. © Sandro E. E. Zanzinger
LEFT TO RIGHT Hans Hartung, T 1962 – K 48, 1962, ASOM Collection; Georges Mathieu, Hommage au Connetable de Bourbon, 1959, ASOM Collection. Installation view, Ways of Freedom, Albertina Modern, Vienna. © Sandro E. E. Zanzinger
CENTRE Georges Mathieu, Hommage au Connetable de Bourbon, 1959, ASOM Collection. Installation view, Ways of Freedom, Albertina Modern, Vienna. © Sandro E. E. Zanzinger
