The Very Last Judgment Triptych

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In The Very Last Judgement Triptych, the city and the world once again face final judgment. Unlike Bosch‘s Last Judgment Triptych, its topography is a radically secular one. The spatial coordinates of contemporary cosmopolitans, which The Very Last Judgement Triptych is intended to bring to mind, are no longer the Creation, Heaven and Hell, but the city, the state and the ‘Empire’. Is expulsion the faith of the Multitude? Anti-gentrification activists squat buildings, the Occupy movement occupies places and parks; but the last image we see is the image of their expulsion. Does it have to be like this? How can a more just world come into existence if we have lost faith in the prophecy of a Judgment Day? This book documents the exhibition in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with works and texts by Alice Creischer, Andreas Siekmann, Ina Wudtke, Maruša Sagadin, Herman Asselberghs and Dieter Lesage.