Catalog of the exhibition Carlo Mollino. Un Messaggio dalla Camera Oscura held at the Kunshalle Wien. The exhibition “Un Messaggio dalla Camera Oscura” aims at shedding light on this ambivalence by confronting a selection of Mollino’s Polaroid portraits with a number of extraordinary objects from the Museo Casa Mollino for the first time, which had also not been accessible to the public during the artist’s lifetime. His challenge with feminine forms springs just from a male erotic imagination or reflect something of his intellectual and artistic attitude as expressed, for example, in his guiding principle: “everything is allowed as long as it is spurred by fantasy”? XF condition