Tag: grotesque

  • Visual Wit and Social Critique. Satire from Goya to Grosz

    With three centuries’ worth of satire, this exhibition offers an overview of things that have changed and, perhaps more engagingly, things that have not, through an artist’s eye view of society

  • The New Blockheads

    This retrospective looks at the work of a group of performance artists from St Petersburg in the late 1990s, who used irony, the grotesque and absurdism to reflect the transitional and uncertain world around them

  • Maria Lassnig

    Concerned with the fundamental problem of the location of the body, both on canvas and in the world, the Austrian artist’s self-portraits span genre and interrogate the notion of self-representation and the limitations of painting