Jenny Watson 'shrinksville'
dal 17/2/2001 al 1/4/2001
Segnalato da
17/2/2001
Jenny Watson 'shrinksville'
Transit Gallery, Mechelen
Jenny Watson (°1951, Melbourne) started exhibiting in Europe in 1991, after a fifteen year career in Australia. She represented Australia at the Venice Biennale in 1993 and has since then had multiple exposure on both sides of the Atlantic. Her work is what has been called in Germany ‘Wort-Bild-Kombination’, also sometimes with personal objects. Through this form she developed interest in personal language, psychology, significant images and the deconstruction of the contemporary painting format.
Jenny Watson (°1951, Melbourne) started exhibiting in Europe in 1991, after a fifteen year career in Australia.
She represented Australia at the Venice Biennale in 1993 and has since then had multiple exposure on both sides
of the Atlantic.
Her work is what has been called in Germany ‘Wort-Bild-Kombination’, also sometimes with personal objects.
Through this form she developed interest in personal language, psychology, significant images and the
deconstruction of the contemporary painting format.
About 'shrinksville’:
Counselling and therapy is something that a lot of people use these days to work out problems or difficult
situations. Because it is usually very private, they are not many images of it. The privacy of such a contemporary
situation was something that interested Jenny Watson as a subject, ‘shrinksville’ being a imaginary location, derived
from the word ‘shrink’ being slang for psychologist.
"Jenny Watson is an artist who can give expression to women's gestures, feelings, dreams, melancholy, memories,
childhood, through an artistic language which is both intimistic and brute." (Monica Pini)
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