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UNITED KINGDOM / Liverpool: MARIA LASSNIG
by Modem
© Modem

until Sunday September 18 2016

Tate Liverpool
T : +44 (0)151 702 7400
Albert Dock, Liverpool Waterfront
L3 4BB Liverpool
United Kingdom



Featuring 40 large scale paintings that reveal her long standing exploration of the body and self-representation the exhibition spans her career; from work made during the 1940s in Vienna, periods spent in Paris and New York, her return to Austria in 1980 and paintings made in the final years of her life .

Influenced at an early stage by art movements that celebrate gestural, informal and spontaneous practice such as art informel, tachisme and surrealism, Lassnig developed a singular body of work, making boldly expressive, brightly coloured oil paintings with the human figure at the centre of her compositions. Using herself as the subject of her paintings, they address the fragility of the body, the ageing process and the passing of time.

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