No Title
1962
Graphite and crayon on buff paper
27.3 x 34.9 cm (10 3/4 x 13 3/4 in.)
A large, thick-fingered hand performs an odd dance in sharp chiaroscuro, taking up a whole sheet of paper.
Lozano's graphic work is less explicit than the other drawings in the series to which it belongs. It depicts a single hand whose fingers have the features of a male sex in different variations. The phallic motif is omnipresent in her work. Whether explicit, suggestive or even abstract, it always tends to evoke the omnipotent presence of man in our society, even in our most harmless visual world.
No Title was presented for the first time by the Pinault Collection during the 2009 group show "Mapping the Studio" at the Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana.
Lozano's graphic work is less explicit than the other drawings in the series to which it belongs. It depicts a single hand whose fingers have the features of a male sex in different variations. The phallic motif is omnipresent in her work. Whether explicit, suggestive or even abstract, it always tends to evoke the omnipotent presence of man in our society, even in our most harmless visual world.
No Title was presented for the first time by the Pinault Collection during the 2009 group show "Mapping the Studio" at the Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana.
Exhibitions
© The Estate of Lee Lozano.
Courtesy Hauser & Wirth
