Feliza Bursztyn French - Colombian, 1933-1982
Untitled (Color series), 1981
Iron scrap (Vehicle)
157 x 123 x 72 cm
61 3/4 x 48 3/8 x 28 3/8 inches
61 3/4 x 48 3/8 x 28 3/8 inches
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Further images
“By using parts of a car as her primary material, Bursztyn not only recalled their former glamorous life, but also complicated the ideas developed by the Nouveaux Réalistes or contemporaneous...
“By using parts of a car as her primary material, Bursztyn not only recalled their former glamorous life, but also complicated the ideas developed by the Nouveaux Réalistes or contemporaneous artists working under the pop art rubric.
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In these works, Bursztyn points to yet another dimension: her colorful assemblages may be read as allusions to proletarian labor. (...) This association with the working class also invoked the role of men in society. Neither the mechanic nor the worker described above could be other than male in Colombia in the 1960s (...) her adoption of welding as an artistic technique challenged classical gender stereotypes.”
Marta Dziewań ska and Abigail Winograd, Feliza Bursztyn: Welding Madness, translated by Maria Peroggi, Michael Wolfson-Susch, Muzeum Susch, 2021
Provenance
The estate of the artistExhibitions
Susch, Switzerland, Museum Susch, Feliza Bursztyn: Welding Madness, 18 December 2021 - 26 June 2022London, The Mayor Gallery, Not Bronze, 1 February - 30 March 2023
London, Frieze Masters 2024, Feliza Bursztyn, 9 - 13 Oct 2024, ill. in cat. p. 36-37