Ceremonial act
EXTRATAG: Film & Referat – Heinz Bütler | Frank Urbaniok
Voltahalle
Voltastrasse 27, 4056 Basel
The film and presentation explore the world of the Gugging artists and how their distinctive language, art, and perception challenge conventional ideas of normality.
11:00 a.m.
Film screening: “Toward Personal Growth—From the World of Gugging” (by Heinz Bütler)
1:00 p.m.
Presentation by psychiatrist Prof. Dr. Frank Urbaniok
In the early 1980s, Heinz Bütler directed an award-winning documentary about five of the most significant representatives of the early so-called Gugging Generation: Johann Hauser, Ernst Herbeck, Edmund Mach, Oswald Tschirtner, and August Walla. The film offers intimate insights into the lives, thoughts, and feelings of these extraordinary individuals, who are now counted among the world’s most important icons of Art Brut.
Their drawings, photographs, and texts speak a language that one might mistake for a secret code—a language, in any case, different from our own. And a language that, according to the long-prevailing understanding, was “not normal,” which is why its expression was banished to the “State Mental Hospital” in Gugging near Vienna, built in 1896.
Duration: approx. 75 minutes (film) & approx. 60 minutes (presentation)
Language (film & presentation): German
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
Film screening: “Toward Personal Growth—From the World of Gugging” (by Heinz Bütler)
1:00 p.m.
Presentation by psychiatrist Prof. Dr. Frank Urbaniok
In the early 1980s, Heinz Bütler directed an award-winning documentary about five of the most significant representatives of the early so-called Gugging Generation: Johann Hauser, Ernst Herbeck, Edmund Mach, Oswald Tschirtner, and August Walla. The film offers intimate insights into the lives, thoughts, and feelings of these extraordinary individuals, who are now counted among the world’s most important icons of Art Brut.
Their drawings, photographs, and texts speak a language that one might mistake for a secret code—a language, in any case, different from our own. And a language that, according to the long-prevailing understanding, was “not normal,” which is why its expression was banished to the “State Mental Hospital” in Gugging near Vienna, built in 1896.
Duration: approx. 75 minutes (film) & approx. 60 minutes (presentation)
Language (film & presentation): German
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.