22.03.2024 – 14.04.2024
Maria Lassnig discovered her passion for filmmaking in New York, where she lived from 1968 to 1980.
Using the simplest of means, she created pioneering short films during this time, in which she transferred her concept of “body awareness” to the moving image. These films reveal Lassnig’s unmistakable view of the world – people, animals and objects take on new forms – but above all of herself. The critical and humorous perspective that characterizes her visual work is given a voice – in the truest sense of the word, when she synchronizes the films with her own texts. “My animation is an art form,” she wrote in one of her notebooks.
Curated by Rhea Tebbich and Hans Werner Poschauko, the exhibition MARIA LASSNIG. SELF AS CAMERA, presents a selection of the artist’s film work against the backdrop of her painterly and poetic work in the USA.
MARIA LASSNIG. SELF AS CAMERA
22.03.2024 – 14.04.2024
Künstlerhaus Wien
Karlsplatz 5
1010 Wien
www.kuenstlerhaus.at
