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12 September 2020
drawing Rita Ackermann - Mama Backwards 7, 2020 / Oil, acrylic and china marker on canvas, 190.5 x 165.1 cm - contemporary drawing, drawings, contemporary art

Rita Ackermann

Mama Backwards 7, 2020
Oil, acrylic and china marker on canvas
190.5 x 165.1 cm

Rita Ackermann | Mama ’20
12 September – 22 November 2020
Hauser & Wirth, Zurich

[from the pressrelease]
In Mama ’20 Rita Ackermann presents her latest body of work – a continuation of her Mama series – consisting of automatic drawings and paintings on canvas which reveal her persisting interrogation of line, color and form.

This new suite of paintings on both canvas and paper, feature figures and motifs which rise to the surface only to dissolve and reappear elsewhere again. In Ackermann’s Mama series, repeated imagery is often combined with vivid swathes of color, giving her work a complex visual component that oscillates between abstraction and figuration. Her images are the product of automatic lines and gestures, a subconscious unfolding of form.

Ackermann’s distinctive approach to layering yields a framework for a maelstrom of vibrant pigments and textures that invite and immerse the viewer. In works such as ‘Mama, The Best is Always Yet To Come’ (2020), the weight of the paint’s application combined with the additive and subtractive process of color and figurative line, evoke a nuanced interior realm. Pastel, pigment, china marker, and oil create a depth of surface, which are scraped away to reveal figures of shattered compositions.

For her new series of works on paper, Ackermann applies oil and china marker to create intimate incarnations of her larger canvases. Titling them as ‘studies’, Ackermann focuses on details of her Mama paintings, obscuring various pencil-drawn figures through thick veils of brightly colored oil paint. ‘Mama ‘20’ at Hauser & Wirth Zürich continues Ackermann’s distinctive approach to painting and the coalescence between the personal and collective experience within.

10 November 2017

Rita Ackermann

Kline Nurses, 2015
Acrylic, pigments and pastel on canvas
193.5 x 259.1 x 4 cm

Rita AckermannKLINE RAPE
10 November – 14 January 2017
Hauser & Wirth Gallery, New York

Rita Ackermann
White Out, 2016
Acrylic, marker on canvas
228.6 x 294.6 cm

23 August 2016

Rita Ackermann

Neverland, 2015
Acrylic, pastel, pigment,spray paint on paper
111.8 x 76.2 cm

Rita Ackermann
Chalkboard Painting IV, 2013
Acrylic, spray paint and chalk on canvas
198.1 x 111.8 x 4 cm

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