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The entire oeuvre of these two artists is a profound analysis of human psyche, executed with a particular sensibility towards the formal language. Materials, their texture and volume as well as colours, their significance and intensity seem to play a major role in constructing a physical and mental space and the entire architectonics of sensuality.
What links the work of Lassnig and Larner is a very sincere attempt at overcoming a self-portraiture as still most dominant modernist topoi of artistic mythology and designing trajectories of subjectivity through a psychophysical network of relations and connections. Here corporeality constitutes a universe where the political, cultural and formal frames are being constantly questioned and redefined.
The exhibition will include a selection of sculptures by Liz Larner, from her impressive installation, “Chain Perspective” (1990) down to the very recent work executed in porcelain, “Smiles” (2005). This set will be combined with a choice of very recent, never shown before, paintings by Maria Lassnig, a unique summary of the artist’s approach on the edge of the figurative and the abstract.