Head (Wall)
1988
Medium
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Measurements
152.2 × 207.0 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Margaret Stewart Endowment, 1990
© Maria Kozic
Gallery location
Gallery 11
Level 2, NGV Australia
About this work
Maria Kozic is an artist and performer who first came to prominence in the late 1970s as a member of the avant-garde performance group Tsk Tsk Tsk, formed by Philip Brophy in Melbourne in 1977. Kozic’s feminist-oriented artwork draws on range of material, particularly Pop art and popular culture sources such as comic book graphics, cult films and pop music, as well as B-grade Hollywood science fiction movies and spaghetti westerns. This work encapsulates this interest, both in its commercial art style and its brash use of colour. It also references the inherent violence of contemporary culture and, more specifically, the different stylised forms of death commonly portrayed by the media.
Artwork Details
Inscription
inscribed in pencil on reverse u.l.: Maria Kozic / Head (wall) / 1988
Accession Number
DC6-1990
Department
Contemporary Art