Florentina Pakosta
By: herausgegeben von Elsy Lahner, Klaus Albrecht Schröder und Reinhard Spieler ; mit Texten von Elsy Lahner, Reinhard Spieler und Susanne Winder
Contributors: Graphische Sammlung Albertina; Sprengel Museum Hannover
Series: Kerber Art; Ausstellung der Albertina -- 537; Ausstellung der Albertina -- 537.; Kerber art
Publisher: Kerber Verlag
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Bielefeld
Language: ger
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9783950452150; 9783891692400; 9783735604606
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Exhibitions; Men in art; Face in art; Geometry in art
Other titles: Pakosta
Description: On the occasion of Austrian artist Florentina Pakosta's 85th birthday, the Albertina Museum is devoting a large-scale retrospective to her oeuvre. In her 1960s drawings and printed graphics, Florentina Pakosta reacted to discrimination against women in the art scene. For centuries, male artists had portrayed women as objects or muses. Pakosta consequently turned her gaze on men and proceeded to dissect their facial expressions and body language. Her satirical works attack patriarchal power structures by caricaturing male behavior and reversing traditional roles. Self-portraits likewise play a central role in the oeuvre of Florentina Pakosta--showing her at times serious, then self-confident, then combative. In her series Warenlandschaften [Product Landscapes] and Menschenmassen [Crowds of People], on the other hand, Pakosta lends expression to the disappearance of the subject in capitalism. Pakosta's mid-1980s output then gradually turns away from black-and-white, figurative painting in favor of an abstract visual language--and to this day, she has continued to create series of characteristic works comprised of geometric beams.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Albertina, Wien, Austria, May 30-August 26, 2018, and at Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany, September 22, 2018-January 13, 2019.

Includes bibliographical references.