Natalie Seroussi gallery in Paris is hosting an exhibition of works by the Austrian feminist pop artist Kiki Kogelnik (1935-1997) titled “dea ex machine.”The works, on display through April 21, summarize the artist’s oeuvre, which has a broadly feminist outlook coupled with a pop aesthetic. Kogelnik was an Austrian painter who immigrated to the United States at the age of 26 and produced work that dealt with the issues of gender and the representation of the body.As a woman in a world heavily biased toward male artists, she was an alien among her peers, even though she was friends with Pop artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, and Andy Warhol, and others. Unlike the bulk of her colleagues, who were busy both glorifying and denouncing the society of consumption, her focus was more in representing the body rather than the object. Kogelnik was inspired by current events. Through her work, she explored how the technological age was shifting perceptions of the self and the body. As the gallery puts it, her work “captures all the positive energies from her time and deploys them within a dynamic vocabulary, fragmented, colored and released from the constraints of minimalism. Her dismembered body parts and the multiplicity of arms and legs hybridated with cogs refer to a kind of primitivism one can sees in Lascaux fingerprints and find a freedom of movement beyond any kind of social assignation.”“dea ex machine” runs through April 21, 2018, at Natalie Seroussi, 34 rue de seine 75006 Paris.For details, visit:http://www.blouinartinfo.com/galleryguide/galerie-natalie-seroussi/overviewClick on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition.
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