Maria Lassnig Exhibition at Lenbechaus Presents Over Forty Paintings

03 March '10 by the editors

For over six decades, Maria Lassnig has explored perceptions and representations of the inner sensations of the body through her paintings and drawings. Lassnig, who was born in 1919 in Carinthia, Austria, already gave her early 1940s work the programmatic title of “bodyconsciousness drawings”. Soon thereafter she travelled to Paris and discovered surrealism and art informel. Through her non-figurative geometrical work she quickly became the most important protagonist in abstract art in post-war Austria. However, throughout her abstract works she still focused on subjective sensations and emotions.

In the late 1960s Lassnig moved to New York. In the USA her style gradually turned realistic. As well as paint, she also made several animated films and returned to this genre many times. In her last animated film, Cantate, made in 1992, she filmed her own life story as a video clip. In 1980 Maria Lassnig went back to Vienna to take up a professorship at the University of Applied Arts, and in the same year Lassnig and Valie Export together represented Austria at the Venice Biennale. In 1982 and 1997 Lassnig took part in documenta. Her work has been presented and recognised by many international institutions in recent years. Last September Lassnig celebrated her ninetieth birthday.

Lassnig has co-designed the exhibition in the Lenbachhaus, Munich which provides an overview of her work of the last decade. The show presents over forty paintings, some in large format, and a number of pieces that have not been shown to the public before. The exhibition will also show all of Lassnig’s films since the 1970s.

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