Christina Mackie, Painting the Weights, 2012, Installation view, Chisenhale Gallery, London, 2012. Commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery, London. Photo: Andy Keate.
Christina Mackie / Materiality and Process
Technical Art Historian Dr Pia Gottschaller led an evening tour of Christina Mackie’s exhibition, offering a perspective that resonates closely with Mackie’s material-led practice. Working across sculpture and painting, Mackie approaches materiality in ways that are at once instinctive and rigorously scientific, attentive to process, transformation, and physical properties. Drawing on her deep knowledge of material histories and artistic processes, Gottschaller illuminated how Mackie’s works engage with matter as both substance and concept.
An audio recording of the tour is available on our Channel page.
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BIOGRAPHY
Dr Pia Gottschaller is a Reader in Technical Art History at the Courtauld Institute, London, where she teaches across art history, conservation and curatorial programmes. Prior appointments include Senior Research Specialist at The Getty, Los Angeles, Paintings Conservator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and Associate Curator at Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich. Pia is the recipient of a number of research grants and scholarships, most recently from the Getty Foundation (2021). Her publications on artists and movements of the postwar and contemporary period focus on artistic practice.
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