et donc, patatras, LBV reproduit le communiqué du musée (en remarquant que c'est une artiste qui a fait la museographie de cette exposition).
AWKWARD OBJECTS
Alina Szapocznikow and Maria Bartuszova, Pauline Boty, Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, and Paulina Ołowska
May 14th – July 6th, 2009
curators: Joanna Mytkowska, Agata Jakubowska
collaboration: Marta Dziewańska, Maria Matuszkiewicz
exhibition design: Monika Sosnowska
Archives' design: Magdalena Frankowska and Artur Frankowski
The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw presents Awkward Objects: Alina Szapocznikow and Maria Bartuszova, Pauline Boty, Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, and Paulina Ołowska. The exhibition and the accompanying conference devoted to Szapocznikow and her work are a response to the clear change in the perception of this artist’s oeuvre, and to a general revision of the way the art of female artists of her generation is viewed. This presentation of juxtaposed pieces by Bourgeois, Hesse, Boty, and Bartuszova is an attempt to show how these female artist-pioneers, as they experimented with material, with its form and expression, often including pre-feminist motifs, sought recognition, often in vain, from the artistic mainstream of their time. They now have become a major focal point of interest for new art history.
The point of a simultaneous presentation of artists who are but accidentally connected to each other is to draw attention to the insufficiency they all felt in the existing artistic vocabulary, as well as to the shared feeling of a need to foresee new worlds, to propose and push for the new. By presenting work from the 1960s and early ’70s, we focus in particular on the turning point when canonical artistic vocabularies underwent revaluation. Apart from the novel formal concepts it brings forth, what is particularly significant in Szapocznikow’s work is her innovative take on the body and its representation, touching on traumatic memories of the Holocaust, illness, and the finitude and feeble nature of the body. At the same time her art is a manifestation of extraordinary affirmation and admiration of life and the untamed power of female expression.
The exhibition will be accompanied by Alina Szapocznikow: Works, Documents, Interpretations, an international conference to be held on May 15-16, 2009, which will welcome an array of world-renowned art historians, curators, critics, and collectors, who will seek to reflect on and animate new tendencies in research on Alina Szapocznikow’s art.
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