Magdalena Kita
Subtitle: Californication
By: editor and designer: JL Murtagh
Contributors: Edzgveradze, Gia, 1953- author; Murtagh, J. L., editor; Museum Van Bommel-Van Dam (Venlo, Netherlands)
Publisher: Snoeck
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Colonia [Köln]; Civitas Angelorum [Los Angeles]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9783864421921
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Exhibitions; Textile painting; Beachgoers; Pictorial works
Other titles: Californication
Work titles: Works
Description: Polish-German artist Magdalena Kita's motifs, printed on bath towels, are vaguely reminiscent of the obsessive works by Dorothy Iannone. However, Magdalena Kita goes a bit further with her colorful and equally erotic motifs. With this first publication 'Californication', she not only assembles a large number of different bath towels, where she continues with the naively-lustful iconographic program of libertarian feminism, but also presents the documentation of numerous public performances and TV commercials she produced. The towels are presented by young, shapely boys sunbathing on them or parading them on the beach. The complex erotically charged motifs give the viewer no clues to any social behavior, neither the lifestyle nor, more specifically, sex and gender of those holding the towels. Magdalena Kita's works are thus ironic reflections of our current social life as perpetuated in a very particular style by the male protagonists at LA's beaches. Exhibition: Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo, The Netherlands (15.10.-31.12.2016).
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition at Museum van Bommel van Dam, 15 October through 31 December 2016.

Contributors: Gia Edzgveradze, Catherine Wagley, Thomas W. Kuhn, Tytus Klepacz, Noemi Smolik, Marina Pinsky, Alex Wissel, Matthew Licht, Elena Malzew, JL Murtagh.
Table of contents: title: Excerpts from : Sexual perversions as the praxis of our penetration (energetic experience) of key existential concepts / Gia Edzgveradze; title: Magdalena Kita's Californication / Thomas W. Kuhn; title: Photo shoot, Venice Beach; title: Treppe is a word which in Poland is associated with shoes, and kurve means a whore / Tytus Klepacz; title: In the arena, San Diego; title: Voluptuous female breasts in the mirror of the battle of the sexes / Noemi Smolik; title: In situ, Sokołowsko; title: An interview / Marina Pinsky speaks with Alex Wissel; title: Fucking on business, Munich; title: Goodbye dead grey towels / Matthew Licht; title: From painting to towel / Elena Malzew; title: Drawings; title: Film shoot, Huntingdon Beach; title: The method / J L Murtaugh.