Margit Palme needed to be 84 years previous earlier than her graphics had been proven in a solo museum exhibition for the primary time. The present “Margit Palme – The View”, which opened on Thursday, Could twenty third, within the Lentos Artwork Museum in Linz, exhibits that the time was lengthy ripe for this: within the 120 works, the Linzer artist (nearly all the time) focuses on girls, exhibits them in exactly composed views, lowered to the necessities and but cheerful and ironic. “Their work is formally interesting, virtuosic in content material and seems gentle,” stated exhibition designer Brigitte Reutner-Doneus.
The sturdy colours and motifs made Palme consider a feminine model of pop artwork, stated Lentos director Hemma filth: “Though with self-confident and self-determined protagonists.” This view of the truth of feminine life is fashionable and up to date right this moment; Margit Palme has been doing this in her work for six many years. However it’s only in the previous couple of years that the artist, who taught on the Linz Artwork College for a very long time, has been more and more observed nationally and internationally. In 2022, her works might be seen within the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig in Vienna, in 2023 within the Kunsthalle Zurich and within the Ludwig Discussion board Aachen, which included some works within the assortment. The Lentos has 560 of the works that Palme produces utilizing the complicated aquatint printing approach: it takes her two weeks to supply one etching, of which she normally makes not more than 5 prints.
Does it hassle Margit Palme that she is simply now being acknowledged when she is over 80? No, she says: “Nevertheless it surprises me. Perhaps individuals did not look so carefully earlier than.” She is proud to have lasted so lengthy: “The work was just too fascinating.”
“Margit Palme – The View” may be seen within the basement of Lentos Linz till August 18th. A catalog (34 euros) has been revealed for the exhibition by Bibliothek der Provinz. Information: lentos.at
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