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This exhibition, in which the work of a sculptor meets that of a painter, is not an attempt to revive the \u2018Paragone\u2019 debate from an art-theoretical perspective, but rather a dialogue between two artistic personalities who, despite all their differences in terms of historical, spatial and cultural constructs, display surprising analogies in both formal-aesthetic and phenomenological terms. This juxtaposition of Herbert Boeckl (1894\u20131966) and Hans Josephsohn (1920\u20132012), who never met during their lifetimes, nevertheless highlights fundamental parallels in their conception of physicality, materiality and the process of form-finding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HERBERT BOECKL \u2013 HANS JOSEPHSOHN \u2013 Archetypes of the Figurative<\/strong><br>24.07.2026 \u2013 10.01.2027<br>Leopold Museum<br>Museumquartier Wien<br>Museumplatz 1<br>1070 Vienna<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leopoldmuseum.org\">www.leopoldmuseum.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24.07.2026 \u2013 10.01.2027 With the advent of modernity, the question of the hierarchy of the arts \u2013 which had been raised with increasing frequency since the Italian Renaissance and which, amongst other things, had fuelled the rivalry between painting and sculpture \u2013 came to an end. 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