After a first approach with abstract expressionism Kiki Kogelnik he moved to New York in the early 60s and began to devote himself to paintings and installations with a pop aesthetic, inspired by recent advances in robotics and space travel. In the circle of Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, Kogelnik became famous for the Hangings series, in which he cut out the silhouettes of the body of friends from colored vinyl and hung them on hangers or rails. Anatomy, science, technology, feminism are the core of Kogelnik’s work: 20 years before Donna Haraway Kogelnik’s The Cyborg Manifesto (1985) dreams of a posthuman future in which identities and bodies are constantly deconstructed, distorted into a desire for emancipation, power and energy.
