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ASolo ago

CHECK OUT THIS SPOOKY ABRAMOVIC TYPE CHARACTER THAT EMIGRATED FROM HUNGARY:

RITA ACKERMANN, HARMONY AND RACHEL KORINE

RITA seems to have an interesting preoccupation with youth, faeries and butterflies.

Leopard print; Rita

When I Lost My Virginity by Rita

Mk-tiles;masks

Rita Ackermann at KARMA

Chloe; Rita

Rita Ackermann

Dance of the Wild Hunt

Rita Ackermann is a Hungarian-born artist who moved to NYC in the 1990s. The early paintings that made her famous, including Should I call the Ambulance? (1994) above, featured overtly sexual “cyberpunk, cat-eyed nymphs,” and are rude, gritty and other-worldly all at the same time. With so many themes, it’s easy to see why the Whitney Bienniale literature called her an aesthetic “magpie.”

Fans of Ackermann’s art often link the pieces back to the grungy streets of New York City right after the tech bubble burst in the beginning of the 1990s. At this time, Ackermann had just immigrated to the city. The vividness of her scenes belies a sense of culture shock she must have been experiencing at the time.

In an interesting side note, Ackermann seems to espouse a sexually overt and grungy self-image much like the paintings she creates. Here are some excerpts from an interview in which Ackermann offers short, frank responses that hark back to her art in both form and content:

AM: What do you find most sexy? RA: My underwear

AM: What is your favorite walk? RA: Down dirt roads

AM: Where do you live? RA: Chinatown in New York (Author’s note: doesn’t get much grungier than that…)

While I like her use of colors, I just can’t get myself to love her work. I wonder if Ackermann’s success relies less on aesthetics and more on her ability to capture the zeitgeist of a NYC moment? If she had focused on the culture of a less artsy city – Chicago for example – would she be as respected? I guess only time will tell. https://artbasil.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/rita-ackermann/

Career[edit] Ackermann has been featured in numerous museum and gallery exhibitions in the United States, Japan and Europe.[4][5][6][7]

Since the mid-1990s Ackermann has been adding to her knowledge of painting and her social comment. "from stained glass to the red ballpoint pen she’s applied to runway models’ faces in lieu of makeup. She has realized multiform shadow puppet theaters like The Deer Slayer (1997), performed as a band member of the art collaborative Angelblood, and curated exhibitions including The Perfect Man (2007) and The Kate Moss Show (2006, with Olivier Zahm)." [1]

"In both her drawings and collages Ackermann juxtaposes characters and narratives, as in Scorpionun (Man on My Breast/Man, Man between My Legs) (2006), which draws on the semiotics of fertility charms and pornography to create an Anthropomorphism like womanman- child. The superimposed images composing this life-size freestanding collage on plexiglass come from the artist’s own sketches—a row of her lithe women, wearing bowler hats and holding tennis rackets — as well as other sources, such as an illustration of the Madonna and Child positioned over the figure’s heart. As Scorpionun’s content suggests, Ackermann’s interest in constructions of gender and the fantasies that subtend and are sustained by them has survived her transformation of scale and material. Indeed, the oversize cruciform Nun/Skeleton/Cross (2006) and comparably large-scale Nun/Mother/Whore (2006) revolve around the bifurcated, simultaneously present identities of these objects of desire. The aggregation in these collages’ listlike titles is mirrored in the conspicuous overlay of their images: Ackermann does not negate tropes of womanhood but stages them as acts and processes of becoming to be set into dizzying and conflicting relief with and within one another. Few clear plots emerge despite her utilizations of fairy-tale themes, and irrespective of the ingratiatingly beautiful protagonists who inhabit them, neither are there storybook endings." [1]

Her work includes paintings, drawings, T-shirts, a line of underwear, and skateboard design.[7] Her paintings in the early and mid 1990s featured nymphetish girls.[8]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Ackermann

AnAnonandOnandOn ago

LMAO COULD YOUR KIKESHILLING BE ANY MORE BLATANT?

"FROM HUNGARY YOU GOYZ...HUNGARIAN-BORN..."

SHE. IS. JEWISH.

JEWS HAVE NEVER, EVER, EVER BEEN CONSIDERED TO BE ANYTHING BUT JEWS IN ANY COUNTRY. THATS A FACT FOR YOU TO CRY ABOUT TO HUNGARIANS, NOT ME.

Shillaxe ago

Lemme guess... Dung_He_Ho's ho