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Maria Lassnig. The Location of Pictures
Piece each 29,90 €
Maria Lassnig’s art reveals a basic problem every person is confronted with: the question of the picture, of the visual at a fundamental level. The visible world can only partially be defined as a location of the visual. More essential in Maria Lassnig’s work seems the awareness that the human body represents a medium that generates pictures. ‘Endogenous Pictures’, which arise from within a human (images generated by memory or dreams etc.), are also the subject of visual studies. When seen from this angle, remarkable insights are won from Maria Lassnig’s oeuvre. Her work thus becomes an applied critique of the image. The question of the location of the pictures or of the visual is posed here with particular urgency. This exhibition catalogue presents works by the artist — some of them not yet shown — from all creative periods, an oeuvre that traces the developments from Art Informel to representational painting in exemplary fashion.
Along with illustrations of the paintings exhibited and films screened, this publication includes extensive texts by Gottfried Boehm and the exhibition’s curator Günther Holler-Schuster, a discussion between Oswald Wiener and Silvia Eiblmayr, a foreword by Dirk Luckow and Peter Pakesch as well as a DVD with two of the artist’s films (Selfportrait and Iris).
Publication date: Nov. 16, 2012
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne
German/English
208 pages, incl. DVD
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