RADICAL BUSTS

RADICAL BUSTS. Room 2020-21 . MMMuseum Kartause Aggsbach

It is a theatrical act only when I can visualize that person it becomes possible to sketch to shape – to write them the poems and busts were created after I was hit by their life story I became a voice inside their spirit so – how to find words for great lives lived greatly I did not have any pre-expectations I was only engaged with their reflections in the process I was always Self-damaged I carried their persona in me through their Self I come closer to You babbling speech and forms of foreignness false or right – in You – I – then somehow all were similar to each other 

RADICAL BUSTS: 2017-2021 / Gips, Gold-Varnish / Louise Burgeois,Mary Shelley,Maria Montessori,Calamity Jane,Harriet Tubman,Mileva Mari´c Einstein,Niki de Saint Phalle,Baroness ELSA Freytag von Loringhoven,Dorothee Viehmann,Indira Gandhi,Olympe de Goughe,Diane Arbus,Simone de Beauvoir,Zenobia von Palmyra,Wilma Mankiller,Nefretete.2017

RADICAL BUSTS: 2013-2017 / Gips, Gold-Varnish / Marie Jahoda, Maria Lassnig,Latife Ussaki,Maria Callas,Meret Oppenheim,Mary Woodstonecraft,Maria Gaetana Agnesi,Susan Sontag,Maria Magdalena Sarah Baartman,Virginia Woolf,Marie Curie,Maria Sibylla Merian,Sylvia Plath,Sappho,Päpstin Johanna/Pope Joan

RADICAL BUSTS . collection 2012-2021 / Gips, Gold-Varnish / Frida Kahlo,Gertrude Stein,Eva Hesse,Camille Claudel.Ana Mendieta,Ada Lovelace,Hannah Arendt,Ingeborg Bachmann,Hypathia,Berta von Suttner,Hildegard von Bingen,Hatschepsut,Lise Meitner,Janis Joplin,Helene von Druskowitz,Josephine Baker.

RADICAL BUSTS . Arkadenhof der Universität Wien . 2015 . Foto:: Sascha Osaka

RADICAL BUSTS by Marianne Maderna . A cultural project of the 650th Anniversary Jubilee of the University of Vienna March 2 – April 25, 2015. 36 Sculptural Portraits of significant woman displayed alongside the all male busts in the Arcaded Courtyard of the University of Vienna . Curated by : Maia Damianovic. It is a cultural project within the “Gender Justice Focus” supported byt he Gender Research Office . Foto: Sascha Osaka

GIVING BIRTH TO FEMININE FACES

If for many masculine thinkers or artists, face is pre sumed to represent the supra-sensitive part of the individual, instead Marianne Maderna’s sculptures express a pure sensitivity. however, this does not seem to be a secondary state in comparison with spirituality, rather it raises sensitivity at a spiritual level. face itself becomes flesh while expressing its transcendental potential. Face is, in Marianne Maderna’s busts, a word of the soul, but a soul that still remains breath and touch, and is not the production of a language that aims to separate body and spirit. As such, the face is mould in a material, which evokes natural and tactile matter. The features barely emerge from what looks like clay, as if they come into flower starting from earth, and they are not the result of the imposition of prefigured forms on a supposedly inanimate matter. The female body just begins blossoming into a face, in which mouth, above all lips, and the facial expression are telling, but not yet eyes, often closed, void of expression or staring, wide open, into space or at the invisible.

In most works of art, painted or sculpted by men but also women, face, especially eyes, are lacking —whether a face lighted by sight is left to the man, the only one who can look, whether modesty prevents the woman from unveiling them because they reveal much more than her sex itself. It also happens that face appears, but hidden by makeup, dark glasses, or other tricks, behind which the woman conceals herself waiting until she acquires a face corresponding to the one she is, a face that becomes visible, but in which the invisible of an interiority, that she agrees to show and share with the other(s), appears. The face, then, remains flesh, but it both expresses and also holds back more than the flesh of the body, of which it gathers the perceptions, the messages, the multiple telling.

Marianne Maderna endeavors to let the faces of women arise, she helps them to come out from a long darkness, shadow or sleep, without subjecting them to the portraying standards or whatever rules of representation of a presupposed truth. It matters little that she really saw or merely imagined the women whose she sculpted the face. her great merit is that she attempts to give to women a face, which says their flesh without remaining immersed in a mere immanence.

Luce Irigaray

ADA LOVELACE ,….. aber – C.Babbage’s Maschine blieb stumm  – UND: – Ada hat getan   – Sie erfand deren Sprache Die erste.Computersprache der Welt

Collection: NÖ Landesmuseum

GERTRUDE STEIN….Cesarina – Cesarone – Cannail – O Leone – Tableaux – O Rhone Matisse – O Persone Duchamp – Facone Hemmingway’s – Pepperone GERTRUDE STEIN Stein-DADA-OderoneFaçonnéPepperoneSanctione MuseCeasarine – FE-MALE – Janusina….

Collection: NÖ Landesmuseum

BARONESS ELSA  Freytag von Loringhoven …..Arsenomorphic-Ready-made- poetricess  Androgynius – Genius       Dominatrix de DADA-Essentiell Nosatisfaction-Sex-WanTress A-making-mischief  BARONESS -Tomatoe-soup before War-Hol-ed auf den Wangen – Unverkäuflich- American Flag –  Non-Stella-ed´Vogelbekäfigtes Samariter-Selbst  – Vor-Magritt´sche-Nichtgeleinwandete  with five MUTT – ihre Köter – UND: “my ars” – Duchamp “shit-mutt” – SIE hatte 5 – scatalogic-jokes “as presents to M’ars”  HE loved it – myLoveMarcel  

Collection: NÖ Landesmuseum

HEDY LAMARR … … als Sex -Symbol im Spind Nymphomanin für MAN “…I am Tondelayo…” Erfinderin – Inventress  „DIE Torpedo-Abwehr“ – gegen Hitler -in Parallelllebensphysik das frequency-hopping – FÜR: Patent-Ignoranz – UND: GPSRadio – Internet – GPS W-Lan – Handy – heute . ….Die Diva-Irgendwo in Warhol´s mobbing Drag-Queen gestrandet… ….Drug-Alco-penetrierte-Asche -verstreut  am Cobenzl – Am Himmel

RADICAL BUSTS . Arkadenhof der Universität Wien . 2015 . Foto: Heri Witte

RADICAL BUSTS . Rendezvous mit der Sammlung . Landesgalerie Niederösterreich . Krems . 2023 . Foto: MM

Rendezvous mit der Sammlung . Landesgalerie Niederösterreich . Krems . 2023 . Foto: MM

THE PROXY . Gips . 2023 . Foto: MM

THE PROXY

Stellvertreterin einer Sci-Fi-Novelle als Platzhalterin für Weitere… a Substitude – ein Ersatz representatives Surrogat und Offsider

Offsiderin – UND:

Handlungsbevollmächtigte Repräsentantin Haarsträhne – strähnig Manometer handelnd  – verderbt – als hätte die Kippe geklebt – UND: ist dort aufgetaucht – bevor das Nächste gezündet – die Erde gedrillt –  dann sich öffnet – weiter öffnen wird Raketengelochte Ozonschicht – durchströmender Sonnenbrand entmineralisierter Meeresboden – der die Pole wandern lässt

als nicht von dieser Welt Seiende ist PROXY die Bevollmächtigte jene Täter dieser Taten zu eliminieren – aus unserer Welt zu löschen

THE PROXY is everywhere

wo Ihre Generation IHR Zeichen trägt – es sind die Haarsträhn´-Strähnigen die seismographisch orten – UND: Zukünftiges orten werden

als kilometerweit-Pendlerin zwischen den Welten kommt PROXY näher der Hoffnung dass die jahrtausendlang Massakerer nicht mehr History schreiben – DENN:

2030 stülpt PROXY – HIStory um

es werden die Massakerer ihres Selbst Konstruktes „Macht euch die Erde untertan“ beraubt – UND: während ihrer Weltall-Urbanisierung als verseuchte Glatzkopf-Crew selbst darin degeneriert – –

– alienieren – UND:

der milde Frieden des Ausdörrens lässt erlahmen bei dem THE PROXIES hilfreich hellsichtig

tätig sind

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