Waste Mask

masked campaigner 

England

Barton Moss Gas

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Mask Exorcism of Lajos Vajda

apocalyptic monster-gnomes

cubist human and vegetable forms

constructivist hieroglyphics of distress:

iconic heads 

in the shadow of threatening death

with swirling colour patches

Lajos Vajda

Mask Exorcism of Eva Hesse

eccentric abstraction,

stuffed expressionism,

anti illlusion:

paintings full of life and death, 

comedy and tragedy

haunting doubts and nightmares

Eva Hesse

Mask Exorcism of Margit Anna

magic puppets 

expressing tragedy,

fear, solitude;
symbolizing man in the storm of history:

colourful naive paintings
surreal abstraction 
grotesque expressionism

Margit Anna

Botond Masks

Schlaf

sleeping masks, bondaged heads:

stability and instability

calm and tension

distortion in a state of peace:

collages of steel, canvas, plastic and paper

Botond

Bourgeois Masks

life size, fabric covered heads
hiding emotions: 
pain, doubt, hunger and desire;
cubist masks:
 embroidered, decorated patchwork 
of domestic materials
sewn together 
- joining and reparation -
to heal traumas

Louise Bourgeois

Freud Museum London