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UNITED STATES / New York: "Maria Lassnig"
by Modem
© Modem

until Sunday September 07 2014

MoMA PS1
T : +1 718 784 2084
22-25 Jackson Ave. at the intersection of 46th Ave.
New York
United States

Maria Lassnig (Austrian, 1919-2014) is one of the most important contemporary painters and can be seen as a pioneer in many areas of art today.

Emphatically refusing to make “pictures,” she has long focused on ways of representing her internal world. Using the term “body awareness,” Lassnig has regularly tried to paint the way her body feels to her from the inside, rather than attempting to depict it from without. Throughout a remarkable career that has spanned more than 70 years, she has continued to create work that vulnerably explores the way she comes into contact with the world, often placing particular emphasis upon the disjunctions between her own self-image and the way she is seen by others—as a woman, as a painter, and as a person living through the dramatic technological and cultural developments that have marked the century of her lifetime. Bravely exposing personal traumas, fantasies, and nightmares, Lassnig’s art offers instruction for courageous living in a time of increasingly spectacularized social interaction.

© Modem