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The Leopold Museum in Vienna initiates us in the pictorial world of Florentine Pakosta, one of the most interesting contemporary artists of the moment. With about 150 works, the Leopold designed an extensive retrospective that presents the career of Pakosta.
Far from the academic artistic parameters, Florentina Pakosta, from her beginnings in the 50´s, embarked on her own true creative exploration, culminating in her first drawings in pencil, and sometimes even lipstick, in which she portrayed anonymous characters from the great city of Vienna.
Some of her most important series are photo-realistic portraits that exude a feminist perspective and an inherent social criticism, reminiscent of Pop Art´s satire, which so much inspired her work.
One of the central themes of her work is male dominance expressed not only in politics but also in culture in the late 70´s and early 80´s. Other points of interests of this exceptional artist were the notion of loss of the individual before the suffocating mass society, and the overwhelming tyranny of the mass media and consumerism which carried dictatorship. Existential and paradigmatic issues for modern avant-garde of the twenty-first century.
Born in Vienna in 1933, Pakosta was one of the first ones to react to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 with a series of abstract works, which today represents one of the most important contributions to geometric abstraction.
More info: http://www.leopoldmuseum.org/exhibitions/
Heloise Battista
Until April 18 you have the chance to know the work of one of the most emblematic Austrian artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We encourage you to rent apartments in Vienna and enjoy this picturesque town in spring, and visit this fantastic exhibition.?
Translated by: salome antigone
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