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 wunderkabinet, stuffed with two headed lambs, Fiji mermaids, unicorns, taxidermy, dodo bones, erotica, old master etchings, surrealist, occult & outsider artworks[2] and celebrity faeces.[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. He went on to put on Halloween parties in London for many thousands of guests[8] often with literary themes[9] and other over the top parties such as his masked balls[10] The Animal Party at The Old Vic tunnels where people were told to 'Dress Like a Beast Dance Like a Beast[11] and a festival Wyndstock held at Houghton Hall in Norfolk[12] He also runs what may be londons longest running literary salon with over 500 events in the last ten years[13]

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[14] 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[15]

He has made several TV appearances on documentaries and programs, and National Geographic included him in their "Taboo" documentary series.[16]

As a lecturer he talks about cabinets of curiosities, his book and his museum at The Lost Lectures,[17] the British Library[18] Manchester University[19] 5x15[20] and the Barbican.[21]

He previously ran a curiosity shop Viktor Wynd's Little Shop of Horrors, dealing in taxidermy, shrunken heads and other oddities[22] including the erect mummified penis of a hanged man[23] in 2010 it was reported that Jonathan Ross's wife Jane Goldman had bought the skeleton of a two headed baby from the shop.[24]

and curated some 50 exhibitions at his gallery Viktor Wynd Fine Art including exhibitions on Mervyn Peake[25] Tessa Farmer[26] Leonora Carrington[27] & Stephen Tennant[28]

References
  1. "The London Institute of 'Pataphysics - Introduction". Atlaspress.co.uk.
  2. Wainwright, Oliver (28 October 2014). "A two-headed lamb and ancient dildos: the UK's strangest new museum". Theguardian.com. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
  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. A DANSE MACABRE - Two Halloween Balls of the Utmost Magnificence 2013. YouTube. 18 November 2013.
  9. "Five of the Best: Halloween Parties in London". Elleuk.com.
  10. "Lives Less Ordinary: meet the dilettante". Time Out Blog.
  11. "The Animal Party". Heyevent.uk.
  12. "KING'S LYNN: Wyndstock weekend's woody wonderland". Lynnnews.co.uk.
  13. "Morbid Anatomy: The Viktor Wynd Museum: A New Museum of Curiosities in London Needs Your Help!". Morbidanatomy.blogspot.co.uk.
  14. "Viktor Wynd's Cabinet of Wonders". Prestel Publishing. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
  15. 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.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  16. One Day in The Life of Viktor Wynd - National Geographic Documentary. Vimeo.com.
  17. The Lost Lectures. "Viktor Wynd". Thelostlectures.com.
  18. "Crossroads of Curiosity The British Library meets Burning Man". The British Library.
  19. "Whitworth Studies seminar: Viktor Wynd". Manchester.ac.uk.
  20. "Viktor Wynd". 5x15stories.com.
  21. "Barbican - Exhibition Tour with Viktor Wynd". Barbican.org.uk.
  22. "Little Shop of Horrors". Retrieved 2015-10-03.
  23. "Mr Wynd and The Little Shop of Horrors - Vogue.it". Retrieved 2015-10-04.
  24. "Jonathan Ross' wife buys two-headed skeleton". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-10-04.
  25. "Mervyn Peake: Mervyn Peake and Maeve Gilmore - An exhibition of paintings and drawings". Mervynpeake.blogspot.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-10-03.
  26. "The Fairies Are Coming - Tessa Farmer". Magpiemag.tumblr.com. Magpie Magazine. Retrieved 2015-10-03.
  27. "Leonora Carrington show!". Phantasmaphile.com. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
  28. "Stephen Tennant at Viktor Wynd Fine Art Gallery". Rachaelgibson.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-10-03.
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