Gender and art

Annette Messager is a key figure on today’s international art scene, an artist whose oeuvre prepared the ground for contemporary French art. Nonetheless, her last solo show in a German museum took place almost 25 years ago. Now, this exhibition at the K21 provides art lovers with an opportunity to rediscover her. On view will be works dating from the late 1980s to the present. The series Les interdictions en 2014 was produced especially for the exhibition at the K21.

Annette Messager

27 September, 2014 – 22 March, 2015
K21 STÄNDEHAUS, Düsseldorf

Watch the video "The making of : Annette Messager"

Digital magazine #32

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Annette Messager is one of France’s most celebrated artists. With a career that spans four decades, her art is diverse, dramatic and has been shown the world over.  This year, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Australia plays host to motion / emotion, the first retrospective survey of Messager’s work in Australia – which is showing until 26 October.

Open Journal spoke with MCA curator Rachel Kent to gain a better understanding of the artist and an insight into the themes, stories and motivations behind some of the exhibition’s featured works.

http://www.mca.com.au/exhibition/annette-messager/

Annette Messager, Mes transports (Detail), 2012-2013.

DUSSELDORF.- Annette Messager is a key figure on today’s international art scene, an artist whose oeuvre prepared the ground for contemporary French art. Nonetheless, her last solo show in a German museum took place almost 25 years ago. Now, this exhibition at the K21 provides art lovers with an opportunity to rediscover her. On view are works dating from the late 1980s to the present. The series Les interdictions en 2014 was produced especially for the exhibition at the K21.

Annette Messager

27.09.2014 – 22.03.2015, K21 Ständehaus

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany

http://www.kunstsammlung.de/entdecken/ausstellungen/annette-messager.html

SYDNEY.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia presents Annette Messager’s first retrospective exhibition in Australia. This major presentation by the internationally renowned French artist features works from the early 1970s to the present, including her large kinetic installations with mechanical and inflatable elements.

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Exhibition highlights include the artist’s Chimères — Chimeras (1982-84) or human-animal hybrids combining painting and photography; her black and white photographic assemblages of body parts and limbs entitled Mes voeux — My vows (1989); and the installation Les Lignes de la main — Lines of the hand (1988) with its hand-written texts that flow from photographs of outstretched palms, downwards onto the gallery wall below. Recent works include her vast kinetic installation Sans légende — Untitled (2011-12), a darkened cityscape punctuated by small rotating lights and shadow projections of a walking man, dog, and clock face that keeps real time, as though warning us of imminent danger.

Annette Messager : Motion / Emotion

24 July-26 October 2014

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

http://www.mca.com.au/exhibition/annette-messager/