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One of the things I always ask my straight students is how their heterosexuality influences their work.

One of the things I always ask my straight students is how their heterosexuality influences their work.
One of the things I always ask my straight students is how their heterosexuality influences their work.
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One of the things I always ask my straight students is how their heterosexuality influences their work.
Matthias Herrmann, One of the things I always ask my straight students is how their heterosexuality influences their work., 1997/2018, Auf Aluminium kaschiert, gerahmt, UV-Glas, 100 × 80 cm, Belvedere, Wien, Inv.-Nr. 11791
Foto: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wien
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  • One of the things I always ask my straight students is how their heterosexuality influences their work.

  • Date1997/2018
    • Artist Matthias Herrmann (geboren 1963 in München)
  • Object typeC-Print
  • MediumC-Print laminated on aluminum, framed, UV glass
  • Dimensions
    100 × 80 cm
  • SignatureSign. und dat. auf der Rückseite: 1/3 Matthias Herrmann 1997/2018
  • Inventory number11791
  • Location Belvedere 21
  • Credit LineAnkauf aus Mitteln der Galerienförderung des Bundes

  • In the early 1990s, Matthias Herrmann began working on photographic selfportrayals, which he titled Text Pieces, which address and challenge clichéd social roles, traditional gender and identity stereotypes, and prevailing ideals of beauty. The subject is not so much the artist himself but rather the human condition in modern consumer society, with all its superficialities and prejudices. As an openly gay artist, Herrmann uses direct language and irony to expose his own body to the glaring spotlight of a public that still primarily associates homosexuality—and gay men in particular—with the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. Herrmann’s provocative works humorously subvert heteronormative conventions.
    • 2019 Ankauf Galerie Steinek, Wien
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