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Birgit J眉rgenssen: Io sono
Io sono is the first major retrospective that an Italian museum institution dedicates to Birgit J眉rgenssenn (Vienna, 1949鈥�2003), one of the most important and sophisticated interpreters of the international feminist avant-garde. The GAMeC pays homage to this extraordinary and as of yet still under-valorised artist, hosting an exhibition project, curated by Natascha Burger and Nicole Fritz, staged in close collaboration with the Estate Birgit J眉rgenssen, Kunsthalle Tu虉bingen (Germany) and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humleb忙k (Denmark).
A refined interpreter of the issues of her era, Birgit J眉rgenssen drew on the languages of surrealism in her approach to social conventions, sexuality, the canons of beauty and the relationships between the sexes with an ironic language and a subversive humour which often made use of the image of the artist herself. The body placed on show is never
displayed ostentatiously, but rather concealed and then revealed through the use of masks, inserts and natural materials, almost like a number of extensions, prostheses deployed to sound the psychological and emotional depths of the female sphere.
Split into six sections, Io sono. will provide a complete rundown of the Austrian artist鈥檚 production though the display of more than 150 works produced over her 40 years of research, from drawings to collages, sculptures, photographs, rayograms, gouaches and cyanotypes.
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Io sono is the first major retrospective that an Italian museum institution dedicates to Birgit J眉rgenssenn (Vienna, 1949鈥�2003), one of the most important and sophisticated interpreters of the international feminist avant-garde. The GAMeC pays homage to this extraordinary and as of yet still under-valorised artist, hosting an exhibition project, curated by Natascha Burger and Nicole Fritz, staged in close collaboration with the Estate Birgit J眉rgenssen, Kunsthalle Tu虉bingen (Germany) and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humleb忙k (Denmark).
A refined interpreter of the issues of her era, Birgit J眉rgenssen drew on the languages of surrealism in her approach to social conventions, sexuality, the canons of beauty and the relationships between the sexes with an ironic language and a subversive humour which often made use of the image of the artist herself. The body placed on show is never
displayed ostentatiously, but rather concealed and then revealed through the use of masks, inserts and natural materials, almost like a number of extensions, prostheses deployed to sound the psychological and emotional depths of the female sphere.
Split into six sections, Io sono. will provide a complete rundown of the Austrian artist鈥檚 production though the display of more than 150 works produced over her 40 years of research, from drawings to collages, sculptures, photographs, rayograms, gouaches and cyanotypes.
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