Rita Ackermann: Hidden
Rita Ackermann’s exhibition will focus on a selection of recent paintings in relation to the artist’s early works from the 1990s, encompassing nearly fifty paintings and drawings developed over the past 30 years in New York.
Ackermann invented images that became instant sensations, perturbing young girls that are now part of the universe of global imagery. Her drawings and paintings between 1993-95 (which will be included in the exhibition “Hidden”) depict compositions of adolescent female figures of clonelike multiples engaging in various self-destructive and hazardous activities. Her early works with their ambiguous presence serve as bridges between high and low culture, just as the myths and folk tales which often serve as merits to Ackermann’s compositions.
In early 2022 Ackermann began her latest series of paintings titled, ‘War Drawings’. Oil, china maker and acrylic are heavily worked into the surface of raw linen. Figures are lost, lines are scraped away to reveal shattered compositions. Each of the paintings subjugated by disaster as a purifying element for inevitable harmony.
OPENIGN TIMES:
Tue – Sun 11am – 6pm
Thu 11am – 8pm
Sat – Sun 10am – 6pm
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