Bard College Alumni/ae Association Presents
Salzburg, Austria - Carolee Schneemann ’59 is in an exhibition titled: Kinetic Painting
Runs through Sunday, February 28, 2016
Salzburg, Austria
Around 350 works spanning six decades on 18,300 square feet of exhibition space spread across two floors: the highlight of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg’s exhibition programming this fall is a grand retrospective dedicated to the oeuvre of the influential artist, choreographer, performer, and writer Carolee Schneemann (b. Fox Chase, PA, 1939; lives and works in New Paltz, NY). The show illuminates a genealogy of new forms of art that emerge as painting set in motion and eventually evolves into expansive installations in multiple media.It opens with Schneemann’s early landscapes and portraits from the mid-1950s. The artist soon started setting her paintings in motion using simple mechanisms and integrating photographs and everyday objects into her pictures. The exhibition features numerous examples of this genre that have rarely or never been on public display. Aiming to take painting beyond the canvas and be “both image and image-maker,” she also employed media such as performance, photography and film.
Many of Schneemann’s works and texts focus on the female body in its social and historical contexts and explore eroticism and sexual pleasure from a female perspective. Key works in this connection include the film Fuses (1965), for which she manipulated the exposed film stock with paint, fire, acid and pasted footage together in a sort of collage, and the legendary performance Interior Scroll (1975). In a critical look back on the paintings of the abstract expressionists, she developed Up to and Including Her Limits (1973–1977), a performance installation that highlights the artist’s body as a medium of artistic mark-making. The exhibition will also feature recent works that demonstrate that Schneemann’s creative energy remains undiminished.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected],
or visit http://www.museumdermoderne.at/en/exhibitions/current/details/mdm/carolee-schneemann/.
Location: Salzburg, Austria