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Women of art are not an abstraction

2021-05-29T16:48:31.997Z


CRITICAL - With 101 artists and 500 works, the Center Pompidou has succeeded in restoring flesh and genre to the history of modernism.


Tania Mouraud sets the tone.

His work

Plinthes

runs with its geometry of colors flush with the first picture rail of “They Do Abstraction”, the manifesto exhibition at the Center Pompidou which re-reads the history of female art.

Humor and plastic code are the weapons of this

Wall Paintings

artist

,

born in Paris in 1942.

“Tania Mouraud addresses the relationship of women to the issue of recognition, since the word“ plinth ”plays with the word“ complaint ”.

She uses the colors of the decorations that she considers attributed to men more often than to women.

She places her work at ground level and thus visually questions the hanging of the work at the so-called normal height.

It is this symbolism through an abstract work, a priori without political meaning, which opens the discourse on the invisibilization of women ”

, explains Christine Macel, conductor of this body of research on a cultural, social and institutional process. or ideological which left, de facto,

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Source: lefigaro

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