About the artist

Born in Hungary and based in New York, Rita Ackermann attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest before emigrating to the United States in the early 1990s. Her works are a dialogue between figuration and abstraction, as forms and figures emerge and disappear on the surface. Ackermann often starts by freely drawing onto raw canvas only to later obscure the lines with abstract gestural strokes. ‘Hidden,’ a survey exhibition of Ackermann’s work, is currently on view at MASI Lugano until August 2023.

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