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Martha Jungwirth The Top Five Shows to See in the UK and Europe
23 September 2021
What to see this weekend – from the frustrated sexuality of Jack O’Brien’s sculpture in London to Martha Jungwirth’s energetic abstractions in Paris
Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Martha Jungwirth’s choice of material intimates that the ruins we will leave behind are less noble than those found in places like the Parthenon. And yet, in that gap between her painterly surfaces and the meaning attributed to them through her titles, Jungwirth uses materials such as old cardboard not only to lament the current state of things but also to repurpose and transform.
