Self-taught artist Ovartaci made fantastical creations in a psychiatric hospital for over 50 years. Now they’ve found a home in the art world:
Self-Taught Artist Ovartaci Made Fantastical Creations in a Psychiatric Hospital for Over 50 Years. Now They’ve Found a Home in the Art WorldOvartaci, The old main building of the Hospital in Risskov. Courtesy of the Museum Ovartaci, Aarhus
Indeed, it was within those hospital confines that Ovartaci began their artistic journey in the 1930s and it was there it would end with the artist’s death at the age of 91. During the intervening decades, the Danish artist devoted themselves to creating a chimerical and wholly unique world, filled with women and animal figures, often melding species together into mythical and majestic creatures.
In an exhibition statement, curator Cecelia Alemani noted that “the mutant bodies convoked” by artists including Ovartaci “suggest new mergers of the organic and the artificial, whether as a means of self-reinvention or as a disquieting foretaste of an increasingly dehumanized future.” By the 1950s, Ovartaci began to identify and live as a woman and repeatedly entreated the hospital for gender reassignment surgery. In 1951, after the request was refused, the artist made their own crude attempt with carpenter’s tools, a harried act that needed medical treatment and sunk the artist into a depression.
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