| | | |  | | | | Natalia LL: Panicky Terror-Chaff, 1989 © Courtesy the artist and gallery Lokal_30 | | | | | | THE MYSTERIOUS WORLD | | | | 14 April – 26 September 2021 | | |  | | | Francisco Carolinum Linz Museumstr. 14, A-4020 Linz
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| | | | | |  | | | Natalia LL: Velvet Terror, 1970
© Courtesy the artist and gallery Lokal_30 | | | | | | Polish artist Natalia LL has gained international success since the 1970s with the picture series "Consumer Art" and "Post-Consumer Art". The series depict young women licking and sucking foods like bananas, sausages, and pudding with relish. These works were appropriated by feminist art from the beginning. To this day, they are presented in many exhibitions on corporeality, gender, and sexuality.
The exhibition at the FC - Francisco Carolinum displays examples of these series and places them in the context of an œuvre that developed over a good five decades from the 1960s to the 2010s. The exhibition starts with the early works, which are influenced by conceptual art and address language and time. Photography, film and performance are the artist’s preferred media. | | | | | |  | | | | Natalia LL: Consumer Art, 1974 © Courtesy the artist and gallery Lokal_30 | | | | | | Born Natalia Lach, she gets married to artist and theorist Andrzej Lachowicz (1939 – 2015) in 1964. Until her photo series "Transfiguration of Odin" from 2009, he is one of her models. Together, they are founding members of the influential artist collective Permafo Gallery (Permanent Formalization) in Wroclaw, which was the birthplace of neo-avant-garde and conceptual art in Poland between 1970 and 1981. The artist breaks with the norms of conceptual art very early on. She thematizes eroticism, as well as strong feelings and emotions. Art is a state of consciousness to her. She focuses on sleep and dreams, on universal interconnectedness; on topics that are not easily accessible through reason. She performs spiritual initiations, slips into the role of priestess, goddess, and master of ceremonies, and positions herself within constellations. A range of films and photo series provide insight into this period.
During the 1980s and 1990s, the artist explores Plato’s ideas on symmetrical and geometric solids. She also discovers Wagner and the cosmology of the Norse mythology of the Edda. Transfiguration and the transformation of the body into a celestial being become central motifs in her work.
The artist’s complete work, encompassing roughly 5 decades, was presented to the public only in 2015, in the context of the exhibition Secretum et Tremor in the Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw. "The Mysterious World – Natalia LL" is the first survey exhibition in a museum outside of Poland.
Natalia Lach - Lachowicz was born in 1937 in Żywiec, Poland, and studied graphic arts, painting, and glass design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw from 1957 to 1963. Today she lives in Wroclaw, Poland. | | | | | |  | | | | Natalia LL: Transfirguration of Odin (young), 2009 © Courtesy the artist and gallery Lokal_30 | | | | | |  | | | | Natalia LL: Transfirguration of Odin (old), 2009 © Courtesy the artist and gallery Lokal_30 | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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