Viktor Wynd

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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, , 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 ^[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.^{[citation needed]} 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]

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