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Artworks
Renate BERTLMANN Austrian, b. 1943
Stele VI [Spot VI], 1974Oil and pencil on wood110 x 150 cm'Stele IV' is part of Bertlmann’s series of 'Grabstele' paintings, painted as her final degree project for Painting under Wolfgang Hollegha at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Bertlmann made...'Stele IV' is part of Bertlmann’s series of 'Grabstele' paintings, painted as her final degree project for Painting under Wolfgang Hollegha at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Bertlmann made around 20 paintings during the 1970s,.
Renate Bertlmann’s 'Stele VI' (1974) humorously depicts three floppy, exhausted and flaccid worm-like organs resting on a panel of sorts. As in other works from the same series, 'Spot VI' outlines a co-existence of binary oppositions, which defy fixed gendered connotations: tender versus hard, round versus square, or feminine versus masculine.
Exhibitions
Renate Bertlmann. Sotheby's S2, London, 2017.
Literature
Renate Bertlmann: Works 1969-2016 : Ein Subversives Politprogramm. Prestel: London, 2016. Illustrated p. 108.2of 2
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