Attributed to Maina - Miriam Munsky - Untitled - BMUT002

The works of Miriam Munsky, the artist to whom this graphic is attributed, are inspired by the desire to break the taboo surrounding the world of hospitals and lead the viewer into the forbidden dimension of operating rooms. For this reason, the most recurring subjects of her work are surgical operations, scenes of childbirth or abortion, and patients lying on beds and hooked up to machines. The result is a fascinating, at once disturbing and cathartic, realism that is irreverent and lucid to the point of being unbelievable.

The most captivating aspect of Miriam Munsky's work lies in the language the artist uses to depict her hospital scenes. Hers is a cold, objective realism that stops at nothing, treating the suffering of pain or the joy of birth with the same cold rationality. All this is translated, formally, into works where an obsessive attention to detail, both scientific and mechanical, marries a rigorous composition of clean lines and geometric solids. Thus, an atmosphere prevails, suspended between metaphysics and alienating reality, in which patients and medical equipment form a single entity.

The work has been attributed to Maina-Miriam Munsky, born in 1943, one of the most important German exponents of New Realism. Along with figures such as Peter Sorge, Klaus Vogelgesang, Wolfgang Petrick, and Ulrich Baehr, Maina-Miriam Munsky represented the artists of critical realism, which emerged as an artistic movement in West Berlin in the late 1960s. These artists demonstrated a desire to differentiate their approach from American photorealism and hyperrealism. Miriam Munsky creates her works by transferring photographed images onto the work with the aid of a slide projector. She is not a photorealist in the usual sense, but rather oriented toward the "new reality," applying a "verist" approach harking back to the 1920s. In her images, she rearranges the models and adapts the overall image by reducing it to the essentials and applying a rigidly structured composition.

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