Orshi Drozdik
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Orshi Drozdik is a Hungarian
feminist artist, based in New York
. Her work consists of series of installations
exploring connected themes, sometimes over many years.
and studied art at The Hungarian University of Fine Arts (1970–77). She started to exhibit in Budapest
in 1975. Worked with association with the "Rozsa" (Roses), a young artists post-conceptual group (1976–78). In 1980 she moved to New York and worked in association with artist group Colab
in the early 1980s. She lived with Patrick McGrath, the writer, in Vancouver, Toronto and in New York (1979–1991).
Her installation series Adventure in Technos Dystopium (1984–1993) deconstructed scientific representations of truth. For this series the artist created a fictional 18th century female scientist called Edith Simpson. Themes she explored were: the romanticisation of disease and the taxonomic formalism of Carolus Linnaeus
. From 1989 she used models of her father's brain as part of sculptural installations.
Her installation series entitled Manufacturing the Self (1993–97) is a deconstruction of medical representations of the female body. Her 1993/4 exhibition Medical Erotic, part of the Manufacturing the Self series, featured a cast of the artist's body alongside photographs of a medical wax-work figure and a fictional journal. The installation Manufacturing The Self, Brains on High Heels (1992) is a rubber cast of a brain put into a pair of high heels.
In the series of Lipstick Paintings ala Fontana (2002–06) the surface of canvases are punctured with lipstick. The series of digital prints Venuses, Drapery and Bodyfolds (2000–2007) featured fragments of draperies and naked women from the history of painting.
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
feminist artist, based in New York
New York City
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. Her work consists of series of installations
Installation art
Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however, the boundaries between...
exploring connected themes, sometimes over many years.
Biography
Drozdik was born in HungaryHungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
and studied art at The Hungarian University of Fine Arts (1970–77). She started to exhibit in Budapest
Budapest
Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...
in 1975. Worked with association with the "Rozsa" (Roses), a young artists post-conceptual group (1976–78). In 1980 she moved to New York and worked in association with artist group Colab
Colab
Colab is the commonly used abbreviation of the New York City artists' group Collaborative Projects, which was formed after a series of open meetings between artists of various disciplines. Colab came together as a collective in 1977, and initially received an NEA Workshop Grant through Center for...
in the early 1980s. She lived with Patrick McGrath, the writer, in Vancouver, Toronto and in New York (1979–1991).
Works
Her works Individual Mythology (1975–77) and Nude model (1977), comprising performance, photography, offset prints and drawings, were exhibited in Budapest. The Pornography (1978) series was completed in Amsterdam, I Try To Be Transparent (1980) performance and the Double (1980) in Toronto.Her installation series Adventure in Technos Dystopium (1984–1993) deconstructed scientific representations of truth. For this series the artist created a fictional 18th century female scientist called Edith Simpson. Themes she explored were: the romanticisation of disease and the taxonomic formalism of Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...
. From 1989 she used models of her father's brain as part of sculptural installations.
Her installation series entitled Manufacturing the Self (1993–97) is a deconstruction of medical representations of the female body. Her 1993/4 exhibition Medical Erotic, part of the Manufacturing the Self series, featured a cast of the artist's body alongside photographs of a medical wax-work figure and a fictional journal. The installation Manufacturing The Self, Brains on High Heels (1992) is a rubber cast of a brain put into a pair of high heels.
In the series of Lipstick Paintings ala Fontana (2002–06) the surface of canvases are punctured with lipstick. The series of digital prints Venuses, Drapery and Bodyfolds (2000–2007) featured fragments of draperies and naked women from the history of painting.
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