Maria Lassnig, Two Ways of Being (Double Self Portrait), 2000, Oil on canvas, 39.4 x 49.2 inches
Maria Lassnig
Internationally regarded as one of the vanguard artists of the twentieth century, Maria Lassnig developed a theory of “body awareness” that transformed self-representation, and generated work over an illustrious career spanning more than 70 years. Maria Lassnig: Happy Martian presents a thematic approach to her wide-ranging oeuvre, highlighting her early graphic abstraction works, her “realist” paintings of the 1970s, and her ingenious late self-portraits. This exhibition at UCCA Beijing will be the first significant presentation of Lassnig’s work in China, and is organized in cooperation with the Albertina Museum, Vienna, and the Maria Lassnig Foundation.