Lot 48, Natalia LL - Consumer Art, 1972/1991* - Romanian artists in the spotlight - Art in Central and Eastern Europe <br> 6th of October - Auctions

Consumer Art, 1972/1991*

Description

Size: 27 x 37 cm each without frame

Medium: Vintage, black and white photography, Edition 3/6

Signed and dated on the reverse.

Provenance

Private Collection, Poland.

Location

Warsaw, Poland

Estimate €18,000 - €24,000

Description

Natalia Lach-Lachowicz, or Natalia LL, is a pioneer of feminist art in Poland. Her photographs, drawings, moving image works and installations have from the outset addressed the female subject in a patriarchal, increasingly consumerist society. She was soon noticed by Western feminist critics, including Lucy Lippard, which provided her with international exhibition opportunities from the mid-1970s onwards. Natalia LL's works have been part of many exhibitions and collections around the world, including the Museum of Art, Łódź; Ludwig Museum, Cologne; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Paris; International Center of Photography, New York; Frauen Museum, Bonn; Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana; Regional Contemporary Art Fund of Lorraine, Metz; Kontakt. The Art Collection of Erste Group, Vienna; Art Museum, Stavanger; Freies Museum, Berlin; Zachęta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw; MUMOK, Vienna; Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe; Fotomuseum, Winterthur and Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo. 

The series Sztuka Post-Consumer Art consists of a set of black-and-white and colour photographs, along with films of women eating a variety of foods in a suggestive manner: bananas, hot dogs, jelly. The models are sensual blonds with doll-like features, which endows their movements with a somewhat perverse and certainly erotic character. Through repetition of a series of frames, the stages of their activities can be traced. Displayed in a matter-of-fact fashion, the physiological activity of consumption is juxtaposed against the sterile elegance of the meticulous photo print. From the beginning of her career, her artistic practice has provided independent commentary on vital social and political issues, but at the same time, she remained focused on her own personal problems, mainly referring to the traditions of body art. These series of works are among the highest achievements of Polish photography and contemporary art.

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