Einkreisung

1976

Not on view

Returned to lender

This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.

In her series entitled Body Configurations, the artist had herself or female colleagues photographed in local streets, stairwells, and alleyways, contorting their bodies to mimic the harsh geometries of the city. Influenced not only by the Actionists but also by the human sculpture of Robert Morris, Export complicates the coolly inhuman systems of Minimalism by reintroducing the human body into abstraction. It is an intimate yet public gesture that effortlessly transmutes the personal into the political.

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Title: Einkreisung
Artist: VALIE EXPORT (Austrian, born Linz, 1940)
Date: 1976
Medium: Gelatin silver print with applied color
Dimensions: Image: 16 1/8 in. × 24 in. (41 × 61 cm)
Frame: 21 1/2 × 30 1/2 in. (54.6 × 77.5 cm)
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Promised Gift of David Dechman and Michel Mercure
Curatorial Department: Photographs