Viktor Wynd

Viktor Wynd is an artist, author, lecturer, impresario and committee member of The London Institute of 'Pataphysics.[1]

Artwork

As an artist, Wynd created The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History in London's East End, a strange reinterpretation of a Renaissance Wunderkabinnet, stuffed with two headed lambs, fiji mermaids, unicorns, taxidermy, dodo bones, erotica, old master etchings, surrealist, occult & outsider artworks [2] and celebrity poo [3] the museum has featured in a BBC4 documentary on Cabinets of Curiosity [4] and is ranked 28 out 1237 speciality museums in London on trip advisor [5] In 2005 he had an exhibition entitled 'Structures of The Sublime; Towards a Greater Understanding of Chaos at Ingalls & Associates in Miami featuring drawings and video [6] In 2007 he had another exhibition in Miami,called, in reference to Goethe, 'The Sorrows of Young Wynd' based around a waxwork figure of himself hanging by a noose from the middle of the gallery surrounded by a cloud of tropical butterflies and many other images of him committing suicide [7]

As an impresario he founded The Last Tuesday Society with David Piper in 2003 reinterpreting Gunter Grass's Onion Cellar Nightclub from The Tin Drum with 'Loss; an Evening of Exquisite Misery' where guests would dress in decaying beauty, be fined £1 for smiling, chop onions and cry whilst being entertained by the saddest music in the world [8] he went on to put on Halloween parties in London for many thousands of guests [9] often with literary themes [10] and other over the top parties such as his masked balls [11] The Animal Party at The Old Vic tunnels where people were told to 'Dress Like a Beast Dance Like a Beast [12] and a festival Wyndstock held at Houghton Hall in Norfolk[13] He also runs what may be londons longest running literary salon with over 500 events in the last ten years [14]

Other work

Wynd is the author of two books, Structures of The Sublime; Towards a Greater Understanding of Chaos, a fragmentary, modernist anti-novel published in 2005 in Miami and Viktor Wynd's Cabinet of Wonders published by Prestel/Random House in 2014 [15] described by the filmmaker John Waters as being 'An insanely delightful how-to guide on becoming a mentally ill, cheerily obsessive eccentric hoarder told with lunatic humor and absolute joy. Viktor Wynd is a sick orchid who seems like the perfect man to me'.

He wrote an essay about his friend Sebastian Horsley for Yale University Press's book Artist / Rebel Dandy [16]

He has made several TV appearances on documentaries and programs, and National Geographic included him in their "Taboo" documentary series.[17]

As a lecturer he talks about cabinets of curiosities, his book and his museum at The Lost Lectures,[18] the British Library [19] Manchester University [20] 5x15 [21] and the Barbican.[22]

He previously ran a curiosity shop Viktor Wynd's Little Shop of Horrors, dealing in taxidermy, shrunken heads and other oddities[23] including the erect mummified penis of a hanged man[24] in 2010 it was reported that Jonathan Ross's wife Jane Goldman had bought the skeleton of a two headed baby from the shop[25]

and curated some 50 exhibitions at his gallery Viktor Wynd Fine Art including exhibitions on Mervyn Peake[26] Tessa Farmer[27] Leonora Carrington[28] & Stephen Tennant[29]

He also runs The Last Tuesday Society

References

  1. ↑ "The London Institute of 'Pataphysics - Introduction". atlaspress.co.uk.
  2. ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/28/two-headed-lamb-ancient-dildos-uks-strangest-new-museum
  3. ↑ "Celebrity Poo". National Geographic Channel.
  4. ↑ "BBC Four - Secret Knowledge, Wondrous Obsessions: The Cabinet of Curiosities". BBC.
  5. ↑ "The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History". tripadvisor.co.uk.
  6. ↑ "Ingalls Current Exhibitions". ingallsassociates.com.
  7. ↑ "Ingalls Current Exhibitions". ingallsassociates.com.
  8. ↑ "The crying game: Misery clubs come to the UK". Mail Online.
  9. ↑ A DANSE MACABRE - Two Halloween Balls of the Utmost Magnificence 2013. YouTube. 18 November 2013.
  10. ↑ "Five of the Best: Halloween Parties in London". elleuk.com.
  11. ↑ "Lives Less Ordinary: meet the dilettante". Time Out Blog.
  12. ↑ "The Animal Party". heyevent.uk.
  13. ↑ "KING'S LYNN: Wyndstock weekend's woody wonderland". lynnnews.co.uk.
  14. ↑ JE. "Morbid Anatomy: The Viktor Wynd Museum: A New Museum of Curiosities in London Needs Your Help!". morbidanatomy.blogspot.co.uk.
  15. ↑ Prestel/Random House in 2014 http://www.randomhouse.de/book/Viktor-Wynd-s-Cabinet-of-Wonders/Viktor-Wynd/e447419.rhd?pub=58500
  16. ↑ Browne, Edited by Kate Irvin and Laurie Anne Brewer; With essays by Kate Irvin, Laurie Anne Brewer, Christopher Breward, and Monica L. Miller; Preface by Thom. "Artist/Rebel/Dandy - Irvin, Kate; Brewer, Laurie A; Breward, Christopher; Miller, Monica L; Browne, Thom; Hoare, Philip; Holland, Merlin; Morera, Daniela; O'Brien, Glenn; Schuman, Scott; Sherwood, James; Smith, Patti; Standen, Dirk; Gray, Gigi; Vickers, Hugo; Wilson, Andrew; Wynd, Viktor; Ballard, Horace; Lasner, Mark S; Miller, Derrick - Yale University Press". yalepress.yale.edu. Retrieved 2015-10-03.
  17. ↑ One Day in The Life of Viktor Wynd - National Geographic Documentary. Vimeo.
  18. ↑ The Lost Lectures. "Viktor Wynd". thelostlectures.com.
  19. ↑ "Crossroads of Curiosity The British Library meets Burning Man". The British Library.
  20. ↑ "Whitworth Studies seminar: Viktor Wynd". manchester.ac.uk.
  21. ↑ "Viktor Wynd". 5x15stories.com.
  22. ↑ "Barbican - Exhibition Tour with Viktor Wynd". barbican.org.uk.
  23. ↑ "Little Shop of Horrors". Retrieved 2015-10-03.
  24. ↑ "Mr Wynd and The Little Shop of Horrors - Vogue.it". Retrieved 2015-10-04.
  25. ↑ "Jonathan Ross' wife buys two-headed skeleton". Retrieved 2015-10-04.
  26. ↑ "Mervyn Peake: Mervyn Peake and Maeve Gilmore - An exhibition of paintings and drawings". mervynpeake.blogspot.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-10-03.
  27. ↑ "The Fairies Are Coming - Tessa Farmer". magpiemag.tumblr.com. Magpie Magazine. Retrieved 2015-10-03.
  28. ↑ http://www.phantasmaphile.com/2011/10/leonora-carrington-show.html. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  29. ↑ "Stephen Tennant at Viktor Wynd Fine Art Gallery". Rachael Gibson. Retrieved 2015-10-03.


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