Dana Widawski: Simply Decoration

​With delicate humor and incisive depth, the artist blurs the boundaries between art and craft in her assemblages and tile panels. At the very edge of the tipping point, she exposes both the kitsch of our contemporary world and the kitsch embedded within art itself—a precise interplay of twee aesthetic and unexpected, socio-critical wit.

This publication presents the works of Dana Widawski in large-format photographs. An essay by Esther Niebel and an interview with the artist by art historian Christian Lechelt contextualize the assemblages and tiled tableaux in terms of content and art history. A book that documents an enjoyable yet provocative balancing act that reveals the kitsch both in the present day and in art, surprisingly, playfully, and concisely.