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Maria Lassnig, 1919-2014 Double Self-Portrait with Camera 1974 (Doppelselbstporträt mit Kamera) 1974 Oil paint on canvas 1800 x 1800 mm © Maria Lassnig Foundation © Artothek of the Republic of Austria, permanent loan, Belvedere Vienna
Exhibition
Maria Lassnig
18 May 2016 – 18 Sep 2016
Address
- Albert Dock
- Liverpool
- L3 4BB
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Liverpool ONE Bus Station on Canning Street is directly opposite the Albert Dock, approximately 365 metres from Tate Liverpool. Route C4 also stops at the Albert Dock.
- The nearest train station to Tate Liverpool is James Street station, Liverpool L27PQ (720 metres approx.). For travel within Merseyside plan your journey at merseyrail.org.
Tate Liverpool presents the first retrospective in the UK of one of the most original painters of the twentieth century, Maria Lassnig (1919–2014, Austria).
About
Featuring 40 large scale paintings that reveal her long standing exploration of the body and self-representation the exhibition spans her career; from work made during the 1940s in Vienna, periods spent in Paris and New York, her return to Austria in 1980 and paintings made in the final years of her life .
Influenced at an early stage by art movements that celebrate gestural, informal and spontaneous practice such as art informel, tachisme and surrealism, Lassnig developed a singular body of work, making boldly expressive, brightly coloured oil paintings with the human figure at the centre of her compositions. Using herself as the subject of her paintings, they address the fragility of the body, the ageing process and the passing of time.
Despite being largely underrepresented until recent years, Maria Lassnig has played an influential role in the development of painting in the 20th and 21st centuries and her work has been met with critical acclaim and inspired other artists such as Paul McCarthy and Martin Kippenberger.
The exhibition will run in parallel with Francis Bacon: Invisible Rooms.
