Austria celebrates last surviving shock 'actionist' artist


By AGENCY
Work by Austrian artist Guenter Brus is on display at an exhibition at the W&K Palais Schoenborn-Batthyany in Vienna, Austria. Photo: AFP

Several shows are recognising Guenter Brus, the last surviving key member of Vienna's famed "actionists", who turned 85 this week and whose radical movement broke new ground using the body to make art.

Brus, together with three others, founded the "Vienna Actionism" movement which emerged in the 1960s.

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