Maria Lassnig
"Maria Lassnig", Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
September 25 - January 11, 2009Organized by the Serpentine Gallery, London
Curated by Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist in association with Rebecca Morrill
This exhibition marks the first solo show for Austrian painter Maria Lassnig in the United States. Lassnig, one of the most inventive and influential European artists working today, continues to produce some of her best work well into her late 80s. Her most frequent subject is her own body, and she describes her artwork as body-awareness paintings. Lassnigs approach to painting as a tool for self-awareness allows her to capture the observation of her internal self and her bodily and sensorial experiences. She expresses this observation through her lush, vibrant style and an astute use of color as a transmitter of feelings and states of being. Since the early stages of her career, Contemporary Arts Centers Alice & Harris Weston Director and Chief Curator Raphaela Platow writes, Lassnig has exhibited a fiercely idiosyncratic independence and has persevered in her autonomy consistently eschewing fashionable trends, while remaining oblivious to her standing in the art world. This solo exhibition features Lassnigs paintings from 1999 to the present as well as seven animated films she created between 1971 and 1992. This exhibition comes to the CAC from the Serpentine Gallery in London.
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