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KATHARINA GOLDYN
Lives and works in Munchen, Germany
www.goldyn.de

In a society in which stereotypes, prejudices, consumerism and image of the Pope becomes the one of a female Pope, inspired
conformism dominate, the German artist Katharina Goldyn has by that legend - most likely originated in the orthodox antipapal
made her “New Man” the antidote to fight the reality of these days. world - according to which between 853 and 855 A.D. a woman
Comparing her artistic creation with an exLargely influenced by the named Giovanna led the Church of Rome.(...), Goldyn, with her
Surrealist and Dadaist poetics, she wants to demolish the current impact works, wants to convey a message, her dreams and her
values, habits and stereotypes in the hope of being part of a new desires: in the name of freedom, carefreeness and spontaneity,
world. Therefore, through her art, defined as “visionary” by the she wants to tell us observers to teleport into a different world, a
artist herself, the concept of «material culture of our times» is no parallel universe where women hold new roles, a reality far from
longer extistent. (...), In Goldyn’s utopia we also find ourselves in stereotyptes and preconceptions that allows us to escape from
a world where the Christian tradition is re-imagined, the idea of the problems and anxieties linked to all those clichés shaped by
the male apostle is replaced with “the female apostle” and the today’s society. (Art curator Chiara Valaguazza)

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