Austria
Maria Lassnig's Self-Portrait narrated by Peter Assmann
Innsbruck Tiroler Landesmuseen director Peter Assmann discusses Maria Lassnig's Self-Portrait in a short video. The painting is kept at the Ferdinandeum and is about everyone's awareness of their own body.
By Redazione | 29/12/2021 12:43
Maria Lassnig's Self-Portrait concludes the series of four short videos in which the director of the Tiroler Landesmuseen in Innsbruck,Peter Assmann, narrated four masterpieces preserved at the Ferdinandeum.
Maria Lassnig is an Austrian artist who lived between 1919 and 2014. Her work speaks of a woman's view of herself, including on a symbolic level. She creates a relationship between the act of painting and the painted subject. The artist coined two terms to describe her art: Körpergefühl (body sensation) and Körperbewusstsein (body awareness); her art is either body sensation or body awareness, and she is both at the same time. Her artistic process is slow, concentrated, meditative and comes from awareness of inner sensations.
"In front of Maria Lassnig's painting," Assmann says, "each viewer is invited to feel his or her body, to be aware of it. Therefore, one does not simply project all one's attention onto the painting."
For more information about the Tiroler Landesmuseen and the masterpieces narrated by director Peter Assman visit austria.info
