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15/11/2012

Maria Lassnig

Neue Galerie, Graz

Curated by Günther Holler-Schuster.

Maria Lassnig (b. 1919, Austria) is one of the most important contemporary artists and can be seen as a pioneer in many areas of art today.

Her œuvre reveals a basic problem every person is confronted with. It is the question of the picture, of the visual at a fundamental level, although the visible world can only partially be defined as a location of the visual. More essential in Maria Lassnig's work seems the awareness that the human body represents a medium that generates pictures.

The exhibition in the Neue Galerie Graz presents works by the artist—some of them not yet shown—from all creative periods, an œuvre that traces the developments from Art Informel to representational painting in exemplary fashion. The solo show takes as its theme the processes of turning external reality into images, as well as the manifestation of inner pictures.

Satisfaction
“One of the most difficult things in life is to explain why one is satisfied, and for sure – one is mostly not really satisfied, only partially. One is already acquainted with the kind of satisfaction that makes one feel satisfied with oneself. When is a picture really satisfactory? It is satisfying when one has the feeling of having done something that has never been done before, neither by yourself nor by anyone else. That is the one and only criterion. But it is just as important that one feels anything at all.” M.L.

Image: Kleines Sciencefiction-Selbstporträt, 1995. Stiftung Kunsthalle Bern. Oil on canvas. Photo: UMJ / N. Lackner

Press contact:
Sabine Bergmann T: +43/316/8017-9211 F: +43/316/8017-9253 sabine.bergmann@museum-joanneum.at - presse@museum-joanneum.at

Opening: November 16, 7pm

Neue Galerie Graz, Upper Floor
Joanneum Quarter, 8010 Graz
Admission free

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