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PRESS | ARQA | Luciana Pinchiero, the artist from Rosario, chosen to represent Queer art in Vienna

Luciana Pinchiero, the artist from Rosario, chosen to represent Queer art in Vienna

Following the success of her first solo show in New York at Praxis Gallery, Pinchiero continues her exploration and representation of queer and LGBTQ+ identity through her art around the world. Her new work, exhibited in the exhibition “Magic in Vienna” at Museums Quartier Wien, addresses issues of great relevance and resonance today. Pinchiero is interested in deconstructing common patterns in the historiography and representation of the present, especially those dictated by the male gaze.

“I wanted to bring together different moments in history with a variety of aesthetics and expressions of sexuality. As a queer artist, I want to offer a visual narrative that questions binary and heteronormative assumptions about gender and expressions of love, and celebrates many manifestations of love,” explains Luciana Pinchiero in the curatorial text of the exhibition.

The title “Magic in Vienna” refers to the romance novel of the same name written by Betty Neels, published in 1985. Romance novels are aimed at a broad, heterosexual, female audience and create a fantasy world. The genre is often characterised by patriarchal norms and heteronormativity and the book covers are designed accordingly. The artist places figures from such covers alongside images of historical sculptures from the collection and the façade of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, making the idea of ​​“queer magic in Vienna” visible, explains the exhibition’s curator Verena Kaspar.

The exhibition will be on view at Vienna’s Museum Quartier until 6 October 2024 .

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