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Mary Beth Edelson Nobody Messes with Her Mary Beth Edelson Nobody Messes with Her 15 December 2018 to 10 March 2019 Mary Beth Edelson, Trickster Body (Woman Rising Series), 1973 Oil and collage on silver gelatin, 25,4 x 20,3 cm Courtesy of the artist and David Lewis, New York Mary Beth Edelson (born 1933 in East Chicago; lives in New York) is one of the most important representatives of feminist art of the 1970s. In the course of her career the American artist has conducted ongoing research on the female identity. In her paintings, collages and performances she subtly and provokingly—and not without a sense of humour and irony—deconstructs the traditional iconography of femininity, questions societal constructions of femininity and challenges hegemonic patriarchal values. In Edelson’s first solo exhibition in a German institution, the Kunsthalle Münster is showing works spanning almost five decades of the pioneering artist’s production. In addition to playing a considerable role in the history of the feminist art movement, her works remain highly topical even today. The comprehensive presentation offers the possibility of becoming acquainted with the oeuvre of an artist who, though as yet little known in Germany, should be named in the same breath as artists like Nancy Spero, Ana Mendieta, Miriam Schapiro and Carolee Schneemann. Particularly the featured scripts, letters and notes provide us with an insight into the feminist movement and creates an awareness for the cultural significance and diversity of feminist art. Before the backdrop of civil rights and women’s liberation movements of the late 1960s and the early 1970s, specific women’s issues were being publicly debated for the first time. Like many pioneers of the women’s movement, it was also Edelson’s commitment to the American civil rights movement that brought her to feminist art. A general critique of the establishment and its overcome values had made a whole generation feel that they would be able to change prevailing social standards. The second wave of feminism brought forth debates, theories and groups, who created an awareness for the treacherous trap of sexism, firmly rooted in everyday life. In no time, women had gained an audience in public, teamed up for joint actions, held demonstrations and organized exhibitions. With resolve and a newly gained self-confidence, female artists for the first time in history succeeded in collectively standing their ground in the world of visual art. As a member of influential organizations, such as the New York-based A.I.R. Gallery and the “Heresies” collective, and as the coordinator of the first “National Conference for Women in the Visual Arts” (Washington D.C., 1971), Edelson became a driving force of the feminist art movement. Over hundreds of years, the notion of femininity being a “deviation from the norm”, as Simone de Beauvoir had described in her book “The Second Sex” (1951), had become firmly established: “Thus humanity is male and man defines woman not in herself but as relative to him; she is not regarded as an autonomous being.” In this context, the female artists felt the need to break up existing structures and to create their own artist language that would, in turn, open up a new realm of thought. By featuring in her works an independent female subject that does not define itself via its relationship to men, she breaks with the prevalent reality. She no longer portrays the woman as the other, as the relative object, but instead creates images of a genuinely feminine representation and develops a unique feminist aesthetic. The exhibition at the Kunsthalle Münster features works from all phases of Edelson’s artistic creation, including her influential posters, collages, photos, drawings and chiffon installations. Aside from works that have never before been on display, her legendary poster “Some Living American Women Artists / Last Supper” (1972) will be presented. For the poster, which was to become one of the iconic images of the feminist art movement, the artist reconstructed Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” by replacing the depicted male protagonists with 69 female artists. This iconographic shift can be seen as an act of self-empowerment—a critical statement towards a religion that had suppressed women for centuries. Apart from this first appropriation of a traditional Christian-religious representation, the Kunsthalle Münster is showing a series of photographs of ritual performances created in the mid-1970s and tagged as “goddess art”. Here, Edelson responds to the stereotype representation of the passive female nude with a dynamic and vigorous activism, with emancipation and self-empowerment. Her mythic-natural approach is grounded on a performative re-enactment of ancient goddesses and cult figures. The series “Woman Rising” (1973–1977) shows the artist nude during different performances she held in nature. The photographs—subsequently painted over and collaged— share the topic of the rediscovery of female energy and the collective unconscious. Her series of “Cut Outs” (1973–2017), which bear different symbols from former civilizations and in Münster will extend over the walls of the entire exhibition space, conceptually and formally allude to a vertical ascent of the female subject. Recurring motifs of both work groups are the ancient figure of Baubo from the Greek mythology, who by exposing her vulva transforms grief into laughter, and Sheela na gigs, stone figures applied to Christian churches in Western Europe in the 11th and 12th century. Creating an imagery based on female genitals constituted the attempt to contribute to the expansion of consciousness and strengthening of women’s self-confidence and to thereby foster social change. In the context of the feminist movement, aside from dealing with women’s political, social and economic situations, the emphasis of femininity originates from the movement’s claim of focusing on a woman’s body and sexuality in order to gain a genuine female consciousness and to develop a self-awareness for a female identity. Employing one’s own body as a medium enables it to speak for itself and thus provides it with a form of subjectivity. This counteracts the women’s stereotype status in art history of being an object—considering that the female body thus far had been merely a matter of male-dominated art. In her works from the 1980s and 1990s, we no longer encounter her goddesses in the form of nature goddesses, but as film stars or pin-up girls. By combining traditional, spiritual nature goddesses with pop icons, Edelson points to the problematic separation between nature and culture—categories these groups would traditionally be classified in. Rather than occurring in the exhibition space, this encounter takes place in the works themselves: in a richness of shapes and forms, the most different characters are assembled here, to re-appear in ever-changing variations throughout the artist’s works. In this survey, Mary Beth Edelson’s works poignantly illustrate that under the overall term of feminism there exists a multitude of voices and choices; her oeuvre is exemplary for the concept of a feminism that is playful, witty and diverse. "Mary Beth Edelson: Nobody Messes with Her" is the inaugural exhibition of Merle Radtke, who took over the management of Kunsthalle Münster on July 1, 2018. The exhibition is sponsored by Kunststiftung NRW and Stadtwerke Münster. The program of the Kunsthalle is supported by Friends of the Kunsthalle Münster. The Kunsthalle Münster is an institution of Kunsthalle Münster Hafenweg 28 48155 Münster +49 (0) 251 492 4191 [email protected] http://www.kunsthalle.muenster.de Opening hours: Tue - Fri 2-7 pm · Sat/So 12-18 pm Press Contact: Verena Voigt PR | +49 (0) 163 191 16 69 | [email protected] Kunsthalle Münster kunsthallemuenster .
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