Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia opens Nancy Spero Exhibition |
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| Wednesday, 15 October 2008 23:24 |
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The recent violent events with which her country has become involved in recent years have had the effect of bringing her work to the fore once more, with important exhibitions in Europe and the United States, the latest at the Venice Biennial. Nancy Spero began painting on canvas in the manner of a traditional male painter, but soon realised that this was an eminently masculine medium, and as such marginalised her as an artist. From then on, she devoted all her efforts to creating a specifically feminine pictorial language to provide women with their own space in which to explore their capacity to communicate. This space, in which canvas is eschewed in favour of fragile paper, is organised around a lexicon of transhistorical and transcultural figures, real and mythological, which, reworked time and again, unmask stereotypes and revolutionise categories and hierarchies. In Spero's work, movement, rhythm and colour form a grammar that is applied directly onto the body of the woman who, strengthened and full of energy, "feminises" and conquers the masculine art space.  The retrospective exhibition focuses particularly on the artist's search to create her own language, featuring a highly significant selection from Spero's production. The intention is to range from Spero's earliest works on paper, dating to when she was still a student at the Art Institute of Chicago and had as yet shown none, to Maypole 2007, her latest presentation at the Venice Biennial. The aim behind this exhibition is to present the artist's work as a life project in which the individual pieces form a whole as if pages in a book. This corresponds to a statement by the artist in a recent interview that writing is a crucial part of her work and that, in fact, she herself can be read like a book. The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) is mainly dedicated to Spanish art. Highlights of the museum include excellent collections of Spain's two greatest 20th century masters, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí. Certainly the most famous masterpiece in the museum is Picasso's great painting Guernica. The Reina Sofía also has fine collections of the works of many other significant artists. Visit : www.museoreinasofia.es/ Click on logo below to add this article to your favorite Social Website ~ |
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