Exhibition
The exhibition took place from February 19 to May 16, 2010.
DONNA. Avanguardia Femminista negli anni '70
The VERBUND COLLECTION, Vienna, was hosted at the Galleria nazionale d’arte moderna in Rome from 19 February to 16 May 2010.
Two hundred works from the VERBUND COLLECTION, Vienna, were presented to the public for the first time under the title Feminist avant-garde of the 1970s. The term ‘feminist avant-garde’ is used here deliberately to underscore the historic pioneering role of feminist art of the 1970s. In fact, no other movement has had a comparably major impact on contemporary art production of the last four decades.
Curator:
Curated by Gabriele Schor, founding director of the VERBUND COLLECTION, Vienna
Team of the VERBUND COLLECTION, Vienna:
Ema Rajković, curatorial assistant
Barbara Wünsch, curatorial assistant
Artists
Avanguardia Femminista negli anni '70
Helena Almeida | Eleanor Antin | Renate Bertlmann | VALIE EXPORT | Birgit Jürgenssen | Suzy Lake | Ana Mendieta | Ketty La Rocca | Leslie Labowitz | Suzanne Lacy | Martha Rosler | Cindy Sherman | Annegret Soltau | Martha Wilson | Hannah Wilke | Francesca Woodman | Nil Yalter
Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
Viale delle Belle Arti 131, 00197 Rom
Insights into the exhibition Avanguardia Femminista in Roma
Publication:
DONNA. Avanguardia Femminista negli anni '70 dalla SAMMLUNG VERBUND di Vienna
published by Gabriele Schor
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Mondadori Electa
Auflage: Dezember2010
Sprache: Englisch, Italienisch
ISBN-10: 883707414X
ISBN-13: 978-883707414
The image of the woman created by women:
For the first time in art history
The “image of the woman” in fine art was for centuries created on the basis of male projections and fantasies. This traditional form of presentation was subjected to an initial thorough deconstruction by the ‘Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s’.
The female artists mostly use their own body, question outdated subject-object relationships and rebel against the diktat of beauty. They show the personal as something political, place self-representation and role-plays at the centre of their observations and examine the possibilities for the independence of female identities.
The female artists share the collective consciousness of a radial reappraisal, the rejection of the supremacy of painting and the turning towards completely new forms of expression in photography, performance, film and video. For the first time in art history, the image of the woman was created by women.
Photos: © Rupert Steiner
Interesting links
Press release exhibition Donna
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