Orshi Drozdik

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Orshi Drozdik
Birth name Orsolya Drozdik
Born February 15, 1946
Abda, Hungary
Awards Munkacsy Mihaly Award, 2003 [[1]]

Orshi Drozdik (born 1946) is a Hungarian feminist artist, based in Budapest and New York. Her work consists of series of installations exploring connected themes, sometimes over many years.

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[edit] Biography

Drozdik was born in Hungary and studied art at The Hungarian University of Fine Arts (1970-77). She started to exhibit in Budapest in 1975. In 1980 she moved to New York and worked in association with artist group Colab in the early 1980s.

[edit] Works

Her works Individual Mythology (1975-77) and Nude model (1977), comprising performance, photography and drawings, were exhibited in Budapest.

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 Linneaus. From 1989 she used models of her father's brain as part of sculptural installations.[1]

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,[1] featured a cast of the artist's body alongside photographs of a medical wax-work figure and a fictional journal.[2][3] 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)[4] featured fragments of draperies and naked women from the history of painting.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b John C. Welchman, Art After Appropriation: Essays on Art in the 1990s, Routledge, 2001, p112. ISBN 9057010437
  2. ^ Reagan Upshaw, Orshi Drozdik at Tom Cugliani - installation art - New York, New York - Review Of Exhibitions, Art in America, Jan 1994.
  3. ^ Holland Cotter, Art in Review, The New York Times, June 11, 1993.
  4. ^ MUSEUM.HU - Budapest Gallery - The exhibition of Drozdik Orsolya - Venuses: Draperies and Bends of the Body

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