Rita Ackermann

 
New York City based artist Rita Ackerman was born in Budapest in 1968. She studied at the University of Fine Arts in Budapest and The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture from the years of 1989 to 1992. Ackermann invented images that became instant sensations, perturbing young girls that are now part of the universe of global imagery. Her drawings and paintings between 1993-95 depict compositions of adolescent female figures of clonelike multiples engaging in various self-destructive and hazardous activities. Her early works with their ambiguous presence serve as bridges between high and low culture, just as the myths and folk tales which often serve as merits to Ackermann's compositions. Later, Ackerman would abandon the figure, erasing the very matter of her own work, in a complex layering of visual language oscillating between abstraction and figuration into a subconscious unfolding of form—concealed deeply in the abstraction of the omnipresence.

(external link : www.ritaackermann.com)
 
Rita Ackermann - Hidden
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This book traces the last thirty years of Rita Ackermann's career containing both well-known and previously unpublished works, ranging from painting to drawing, created in a range of media and formats.
Rita Ackermann - Shadow Fux
2012
bilingual edition (English / French)
Galerie du jour agnès b. - Monographs & artists' books
Artists' book.
Rita Ackermann - Fire by Days
2011
no text
Nieves
sold out
Rita Ackermann's eponymous new painting series (a highly distilled series of pictures based on two colours and a single composition) in book form.
Rita Ackermann - Marfa/Crash - Parking Accidents
2009
no text
Nieves
sold out
Issue #7 of THE international with Rita Ackermann, featuring drawings, collages, photographs and new paintings that were inspired by and created during Rita Ackermann's stay in Texas.
Rita Ackermann - Under Pressure
2008
no text
Nieves
sold out
Rita Ackermann's paintings and collages.


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