Anetta Mona Chisa, Lucia Tkáčová – His Pipe
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measurements: výška 25.0 cm
work type: object sculpture
material: cotton
technique: crocheting
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institution: Slovenská národná galéria, SNG
curator: Vladimíra Büngerová
inventory number: P 2686
tags: fajka
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The pipe is his longed-for coda after a hard day. Sometimes he looks forward to it perhaps even more than to his family.

In the works of Lucie Tkáčová and Anetta Mona Chişa, the relationship between the artist and his muse is reversed, and in this case, HE becomes the muse. 

With a healthy dose of sarcasm, female artists adore men's personal objects. Using a "typically feminine" technique of crocheting, they envelop and appropriate these objects along with their owner, shrouding them in a net of no escape.

The committed work of a tandem of female artists often explores and subverts gender stereotypes with the help of irony, self-irony and provocation. They show how society instills into us what typically male and female characteristics, objects and patterns of behavior are. Their humor often effectively "strikes home".

lab.SNG ● Text from the atlas.sng.sk app for the exhibition Prečo (ume)nie?