"I want to be loved by me" ::: Part II

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At first it’s comical to watch a middle-aged woman imitate the most famous blonde bombshell of the twentieth century. But the mixture between self-portrayal and idol worship in
TINA BARA’s photographs is also disconcerting: an unpretentious woman exposes the tragedy of an icon who could never be herself...
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TINA BARA
Born 1962 in Kleinmachnow, East Germany. Lives and works in Berlin and Leipzig, Germany, and Bonisdorf, Austria

EXHIBITIONS
Kunstwerke 36, Art Project, Große Bergstraße, Hamburg, Germany, 3 May – 26 May, 2006
marilyn, Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany,
25 March – 1 May 2006
marilyn, Women’s Museum Dallas, Texas, USA,
20 September – 22 October, 2006, travelling exhibition; further venues: Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, and others

GALLERY
Galerie Christa Burger, Munich,
tel. +49 89 28996550,
www.galerieburger.de

COURTESY
All images the artist and Galerie Christa Burger, Munich

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"I want to be loved by me" ::: Part I