Lascivious chairs that swing their legs to silent film music, swell to bursting and expel their insides. Couples that flow into each other, fight against each other, cut each other apart. A naked woman with mountainous breasts, thigh valleys and buttocks in a distorting mirror. Maria Lassnig leaves no doubt about what her short films are about. Body feelings, pain, anger, man-woman relationships, the forces of attraction and repulsion between the sexes were the life theme of the Austrian artist, who was born in Carinthia in 1919 as an illegitimate farmer's child and died in Vienna in 2014 as a celebrated painter. A year before her death, she received the Golden Lion for her life's work at the Venice Biennale. <\/p>\n\n\n\n