Christa Dichgans: Kein Stillleben

Christa Dichgans - Female Pop Art

Plastic toys piled up in the children's room, an inflated animal as a swimming ring, Batman and mountains of sausage - these are motifs that characterise the paintings of Christa Dichgans (born 1940 in Berlin). The artist, who became known in particular for her early work from the 1960s and has recently attracted considerable attention through her participation in various national and international group exhibitions, is unquestionably one of the most important protagonists of Pop Art. For over five decades, she has been exploring the relationship between man and object, always in the context of a questioning of mass consumption, which has changed considerably over the course of time: instead of quality and quantity, immaterial attributions, which are ventilated in the symbolic content of goods and, correlating with this, in the brand awareness of consumers, have increasingly come to the fore. Accordingly, Christa Dichgans' motifs are also reminiscent of vanitas still lifes, which refer to the ever-shortening half-life of the world of things in an accelerated culture.

Exhibition:
Kestnergesellschaft Hanover, 26/1 - 8/5/2018