Femmy Otten ‘Rainbow Woman’ Books a movement or a gesture

a movement or a gesture

static objects are put back into motion and they are made to leave their recommended positions of meaning

But what her work expresses most strongly is her love of nature in all its facets

the drawings speak

Booklaunch at M HKA

Femmy Otten ‘Rainbow Woman’ Books a movement or a gestureIn her work, Dutch artist Femmy Otten (1981) explores a very hybrid world of inspiration, ranging from sculptures from Greek antiquity and Italian painters of the quattrocento to American outsider art and contemporary art. She brings all these influences together in a precise yet unfathomable iconography. The book Rainbow Woman shows mainly recent work, but also revisits a number of older works which Otten has regularly placed in a new context