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Feministisk konst på Geffen Contemporary på MOCA i Los Angeles

March 2nd, 2007

Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, MOCA i folkmun , har en intressant konstutställning med namnet WACK, Art and the Feminist Revolution på Geffen Contemporary, en av MOCA:s tre gallerier i Los Angeles.

Folkstorm på MOCA

Utställningen täcker perioden från 1965 - 1980, alltså den moderna amerikanska feminismens glansperiod, men innehåller också verk från många andra länder.

The first comprehensive, historical exhibition to examine the international foundations and legacy of feminist art, WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution focuses on the crucial period 1965–80, during which the majority of feminist activism and artmaking occurred internationally.

The exhibition includes the work of 120 artists from the United States, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Comprising work in a broad range of media—including painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, and performance art—the exhibition is organized around themes based on media, geography, formal concerns, collective aesthetic, and political impulses.

Curated for The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, by Connie Butler, The Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA), the exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.

Utställningen har arrangerats av Connie Butler som intervjuas om utställningen i Frieze.com

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Steffie Nelson skriver, på tal om utställningen, om MOCAs extravaganta utställningschef Vanessa Gonzales i Los Angeles Times:
MOCA event planner is a real party girl. Vanessa Gonzalez, the museum’s events specialist, rocks ‘n’ rolls the details. And those outfits!

As MOCA’s development events manager, coordinating an average of 35 events a year, Gonzalez is more rock ‘n’ roll chick than art geek, with her platinum hair, platform shoes, high-gloss lips and vanity plates that say “GR*UPIE.”

Over the past five years, she’s produced events that have made MOCA one of the hottest social tickets in town, like this past fall’s “Skin + Bones” fete, which attracted such A-listers as Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore. With the growing L.A. art scene, the museum’s membership has also shot up, which, according to MOCA’s director, Jeremy Strick, can be linked in part to “the unique atmosphere Vanessa helps to create.”

Gonzalez’s debut was the 2002 Warhol retrospective, which she turned into a Factory-inspired happening. She brought in a group of DJs who spun underground 45s from the ’60s, which impressed the show’s curator, Ann Goldstein. “She was so amazed that they were spinning 45s,”

Gonzalez recalled over sushi at R23. “It was so authentic for her. I’ll never forget that. I think that really just put it all in perspective for me: You can have the event be an extension of the work and the exhibition.”

Jag vet inte om någon har studerat det stora inflytande som den amerikanska feminismen hade på den svenska feminismen just under perioden som täcks av den här utställningen. Om någon känner till något om det vore det intressant att höra.

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