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11 April
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13 August 2006 Tate Liverpool |
Motesiczky's work is rich in intimate still life paintings, which depict the artist's domestic surroundings and personal belongings. Although carefully arranged, these compositions often appear casual, seeming to record a scene the artist has come across by chance. An often unusual combination of objects is skilfully combined in a distinct and personal symbolism to tell a story.
In Still-Life with Tulips 1926, the book is inscribed 'Laczi', her nickname for her secret lover during the mid-1920s, Baron Lajos Hatvany, a Hungarian writer also known as Ludwig Deutsch. In Still-Life with Photo 1930, a family photograph, showing members of Motesiczky's family, which took centre place in the family home in Hinterbrühl, is balanced precariously on a stool, topped with an oriental-patterned cushion. Painted at the time of international financial collapse and on the cusp of the ensuing depression, it presages a world about to crumble.