MARIA LASSNIG

Maria Lassnig is one of the most radical female artists of our time: her self-portraits depict her with sagging breasts, wearing a p ot on her head or even as a dumpling. Maria Lassnig calls her works body-consciousness paintings, and what they show is rarely flatt ering. Often she is naked or, as in the painting Du oder ich ( You or I ), stands before us with all the defenselessness of old age/ her breasts sagging, her stomach wrinkled. At the same time, she is holding two pistols. One is aimed at the viewer, the other at h er head....[Read more]