Hermann Nitsch - Das Orgien Mysterien Theater (3 volumes) - Freibord 1998

Having trained at Vienna’s Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt in the 1950s, Hermann Nitsch became a pioneer of the city’s avant-garde scene in the 60s and 70s, staging radical and controversial performances as part of the Viennese Actionism movement. The artist’s work in performance and painting, which incorporated blood, flesh, and other materials, itself became a kind of religious practice. He conceived his famed Orgies Mysteries Theatre in the 50s, and the expansive, sensorial performance was realized as the 6-Day-Play. In the early years of his painting practice, Nitsch created Action paintings by splattering paint onto canvases, and some of his paintings from the 60s also feature fabric and blood.
Additionally, the artist created graphic prints that examine the labyrinthine makeup of the human body, which he described as “the architecture of the O.M. Theatre,” since the 70s. During the 90s, Nitsch began adding paint and blood splashes to his printing process, establishing a dialogue with his works on canvas.
This three-volume book documents the performance between August 3 and 9, 1998, "Das 6-Tage-Spiel".