The catalogue of Martha Jungwirth’s solo exhibition at Palazzo Cini – curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, director of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini’s Institute of Art History, and made possible with the support of the Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery – features new works by the Austrian artist. Over the course of her six-decade career, Jungwirth has forged a singular approach to abstraction that is rooted in the body and close observation of the world around her. The artist draws inspiration from ‘pretexts’ to create her vivid and expressive paintings. In the case of Herz der Finsternis, Jungwirth borrows the title of Joseph Conrad’s 1899 novella Heart of Darkness as the starting point for her recent body of work.