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Women In Abstraction
Women in Abstraction. Another History of Abstraction in the 20th Century or ''Elles font l'abstraction. Une autre histoire de l'abstraction au XXe siècle'' was a major exhibition of 20th century abstract art created by women. It was curated by Christine Macel. The exhibition was first presented at the Centre Georges Pompidou from 19 May to 23 August 2021. It traveled to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao where was exhibited from 2 October 2021 to 27 February 2022. In 2022 the exhibition traveled to West Bund Museum in China. In May 2021 ''Symposium Women in Abstraction'' was held at the Centre Pompidou. Artists The following artists were included in the show: * Magdalena Abakanowicz * Berenice Abbott * Carla Accardi * Etel Adnan * Anni Albers * Laure Albin-Guillot * Gertrud Arndt * Ruth Asawa * Elena Asins * Vanessa Bell * Lynda Benglis * Martha Boto * Louise Bourgeois * Trisha Brown * Jagoda Buić * Mary Ellen Bute * Marcelle Cahn * Huguette Caland * Regina Cassolo * Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Macel
Christine Macel (born 1969) is a French curator. She was the director of the 2017 Venice Biennale while holding the position of chief curator at the Centre Pompidou from 2000–2022. In 2022 she is nominated Director of the Musée des arts décoratifs and Musée Nissim de Camondo. She is now a scientific and artistic advisor for the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. Early life Christine Macel was born in Paris in 1969. Career Macel is a contributor to several magazines such as ''Artforum, Flash Art, Art Press, Parkett'' and ''Cahiers du Musée national d'art moderne''. Macel was the chief curator at the Centre Pompidou from 2000–2022, where she started the museum's contemporary art department. She curated shows of Sophie Calle, Gabriel Orozco, Nan Goldin, Philippe Parreno and others. At the Venice Biennale, Macel curated the French pavilion in 2013 (Anri Sala), and the Belgian pavilion in 2007 (Éric Duyckaerts Éric Duyckaerts (4 February 1953 – 26 January 2019) w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jagoda Buić
Jagoda Buić (14 March 1930 – 17 October 2022) was a Croatian visual artist best known for her monumental fiber art installations and tapestries, which won her critical acclaim in the latter half of the 20th century. Early years Born in the coastal city of Split, Buić studied at the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts and Art History at the University of Zagreb before graduating in interior architecture and scenography, textiles and costume design at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 1953. After graduation she studied film set design at the Cinecittà studio in Rome and the history of costume design at the International Centre for Arts and Costume housed at Palazzo Grassi in Venice. Work Buić worked on more than 120 projects as a costume and stage designer in various opera, ballet, theatre and film productions at various theatres in Vienna, Zagreb, Osijek, Dubrovnik and Split. In 1965, at the Lausanne Biennial of Textile Art, Buić impressed contemporary art critics with h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dadamaino
Eduarda Emilia Maino (2 October 1930 – 13 April 2004), known as Dadamaino, was an Italian visual artist and painter. She was a member of the Milanese avant-garde of the 1960s. Biography Eduarda Emilia Maino, nicknamed "Dada" for Eduarda, was born in Milan, Italy. Dadamaino first completed a medical degree before taking up art at the end of the 1950s. She frequented a group of young artists who followed Lucio Fontana and the spatialism movement. Members of the group included: Piero Manzoni, Gianni Colombo, Enrico Castellani and Agostino Bonalumi. In 1958, Dadamaino produced a series of works called ''Volumi'', which were exhibited in her first solo show at the Galleria dei Bossi in Milan the same year. Shortly after, Dadamaino joined Azimuth, a group funded by Piero Manzoni, and the Germany-based Group Zero formed by Heinz Mack, Otto Piene and Günther Uecker. The following years brought important experiments, among them the occupation with color grading and int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlotta Corpron
Carlotta Corpron (December 9, 1901 – April 17, 1988) was an American photographer known for her abstract compositions featuring light and reflections, made mostly during the 1940s and 1950s. She is considered a pioneer of American abstract photography and a key figure in Bauhaus-influenced photography in Texas. Biography Corpron was born in Blue Earth, Minnesota. Her father, Alexander Corpron, was a doctor, and he moved the family to India, where he served as a medical missionary. She attended a "strict English boarding school" located in the Himalayan mountains. After spending most of her youth in India, she returned to the United States in 1920 to study art at Michigan State Normal College, where she earned a B.S. in art education in 1925. She went on to study fabric design and art education at Columbia University's Teachers College, gaining her master's degree the following year. Corpron supported herself as an art teacher, first at the Women's College of Alabama (1926–19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lygia Clark
Lygia Pimentel Lins (23 October 1920 – 25 April 1988), better known as Lygia Clark, was a Brazilian artist best known for her painting and Installation art, installation work. She was often associated with the Brazilian Constructivist movements of the mid-20th century and the Tropicalia movement. Along with Brazilian artists Amilcar de Castro, Franz Weissmann, Lygia Pape and poet Ferreira Gullar, Clark co-founded the Neo-Concrete Movement, Neo-Concrete movement. From 1960 on, Clark discovered ways for viewers (who would later be referred to as "participants") to interact with her art works. Clark's work dealt with the relationship between inside and outside, and, ultimately, between self and world. Life Clark was born in 1920 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. In 1938, she married Aluízio Clark Ribeiro, a civil engineer, and moved to Rio de Janeiro, where she gave birth to three children between 1941 and 1945.Cornelia Butler and Luis Pérez-Oramas, ''Lygia Clark: The Abandonment o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irene Chou
Irene Chou () (January 31, 1924 – July 1, 2011) was a Chinese artist, one of the most influential exponents of the New Ink Painting movement in Hong Kong. A leader in the New Ink Painting Movement, Chou was at the forefront of reinventing traditional ink paintings into a contemporary art form. Her contribution to ink paintings has made an impact both regionally and internationally, making way for modern ink paintings in the global art scene. Life and work Irene Chou was born in Shanghai, where she studied economics at St. John's University. Upon graduating in 1945, Chou worked as a journalist for Peace Daily Shanghai. Thereafter she left for Taipei in Taiwan and in 1949 for Hong Kong. Her mother, a professional calligrapher gave her the first leson. She began to learn painting formally in 1954 when she became a student of Zhao Shao'ang, a master of the traditional Lingnan school of painting. In her traditional landscape and bird-and-flower paintings Chou demonstrated a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wook-kyung Choi
Wook-kyung Choi (1940–1985) was a Korean Abstract Expressionist painter. She was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1940. Choi attended Seoul National University, and then immigrated to the United States in 1964 where she studied at the Cranbrook Academy of Art and the Brooklyn Museum Art School. She acted as a transmitter of Korean Informel Art to The United States, a form of painting characterized by non-geometrical abstraction. This artistic movement was interpreted by many as a rebellion against the Korean state-led National Art Exhibition System (gukjeon), which preferred Academic Realism as its method of expression. During her career, she also studied and exhibited influences from other Abstract Expressionist artists such as Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, and Mark Rothko. In 1979 Choi permanently returned to South Korea where she taught at Yeungnam University and Duksung Women's University. Choi died in 1985 at the age of 45 in Seoul. In 1987, the National Museum of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucinda Childs
Lucinda Childs (born June 26, 1940) is an American postmodern dancer and choreographer. Her compositions are known for their minimalistic movements yet complex transitions. Childs is most famous for being able to turn the slightest movements into intricate choreography. Through her use of patterns, repetition, dialect, and technology, she has created a unique style of choreography that embraces experimentation and transdisciplinarity. Personal life and early career Lucinda Childs was born in New York City. She began dancing at the age of six at the King-Coit School. At age eleven, Childs was introduced to Tanaquil LeClercq from the New York City Ballet. LeClercq had inspired Childs to pursue dance, but Childs found that she could not execute everything perfectly. When she met the actress Mildred Dunnock, her ambition shifted to becoming an actress. Continuing her dance training, she studied with Harriet Ann Gray and Helen Tamiris at the Perry-Mansfield of Theatre and Dance. Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago (born Judith Sylvia Cohen; July 20, 1939) is an American feminist artist, art educator, and writer known for her large collaborative art installation pieces about birth and creation images, which examine the role of women in history and culture. During the 1970s, Chicago founded the first feminist art program in the United States at California State University, Fresno (formerly Fresno State College), which acted as a catalyst for feminist art and art education during the 1970s. Her inclusion in hundreds of publications in various areas of the world showcases her influence in the worldwide art community. Many of her books have also been published in other countries, making her work more accessible to international readers. Chicago's work incorporates a variety of artistic skills, such as needlework, counterbalanced with skills such as welding and pyrotechnics. Her most well-known work is '' The Dinner Party'', which is permanently installed in the Elizabeth A. Sackler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giannina Censi
Giannina Censi (1913–1995) was an Italian dancer and choreographer. She is known for her contributions to ''Danza Futurista'' (Italian for Futurist dance). Censi was born on 25 January 1913 in Milan. She studied classical dance under Lyubov Yegorova, as well as Indian dance with Uday Shankar. Censi went on to study the works of Italian Futurist artist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. In 1931 the Galleria Pesaro de Milan presented her choreographed ''Aerodance'' (based on the concept of Aeropaintering). Censi died in Voghera on 5 May 1995. In 2021 her work was in the exhibition ''Women in Abstraction'' at the Centre Pompidou. In 2022 the 59th Venice Biennale included Censi's work in the ''Seduction of the Cyborg''. References External links EXTRAIT: Gianina Censi Futurist Ballet Further reading * Klock, A. (1999). Of Cyborg Technologies and Fascistized Mermaids: Giannina Censi's Aerodanze in 1930s Italy. Theatre Journal The ''Theatre Journal'' is a quarterly peer-reviewe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemarie Castoro
Rosemarie Castoro (born in Brooklyn, New York, United States; 1939 – 2015) was an American artist associated with the New York Minimalists. She worked in drawing, painting, sculpture, and other media. She was associated with Minimalism, Conceptual art, and concrete poetry. Castoro was a practitioner of monochrome painting and abstraction. Movement of the human body through physical space was a recurring theme in her work. A retrospective of her work is being shown at Mostyn gallery in Llandudno, UK until 24 February 2024. Life and work Castoro graduated from Pratt Art Institute in 1963. In the 1960s, she participated in several performances with Minimal Dance pioneer Yvonne Rainer and became involved with the study of choreography at the Pratt Institute. Castoro graduated from the Pratt Institute, cum laude, with a BFA in 1963. She was involved with the Art Workers Coalition which met in her studio at 151 Spring Street. In the 1970s, Castoro developed a strong focus on sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regina Cassolo Bracchi
Regina Cassolo Bracchi (1894–1974) was an Italian sculptor. She is known for her pioneering use of materials such as aluminum, wire, and tin. She was part of the Futurist movement as well as the and Spatialism. Life Bracchi ''née'' Cassolo was born in Mede on 21 May 1894. She studied at the Brera Academy in Milan and then at the studio of Giovanni Battista Alloati (1878 - 1964) in Turin, Italy. In 1934 she signed the ''Manifesto Tecnico dell'Aeroplastica Futurista'' (Technical Manifesto of Futurist Aeroplastics). In 1948 she joined the ''Movimento Arte Concreta''. Cassolo died in Milan on 14 September 1974. In 2021 the '' Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea'' (GAMeC, Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art) held a retrospective of her work. The same year her work was in the exhibition ''Women in Abstraction'' at the Centre Pompidou The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the (), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English and colloquially as Beaubourg, is a building comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |