Friday 29 June 2018

Rosemarie Castoro, Wanda Czelkowska, Lydia Okumura - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London (until 11 August 2018)

Wanda Czelkowska, Self Portrait, early 1970s
Land of Lads, Land of Lashes: Rosemarie Castoro, Wanda Czelkowska, Lydia Okumura is at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac (Ely House, London) until 11 August 2018)
From Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac website:
Land of Lads, Land of Lashes presents, for the first time in the UK, seminal sculptures and paintings of three female artists of 1960s and 1970s Minimal and Post-Minimal art who broke the artistic boundaries of the period: Rosemarie Castoro introduced surreal and sexual connotations to the cool, mathematical rigour of Minimalism; Lydia Okumura expanded the tradition of the Brazilian geometric avant-garde with her multi-dimensional abstract environments; and Wanda Czelkowska challenged artistic traditions by fusing anthropomorphic sculpture with brutalist, industrial structures. All three artists created an avant-garde inside the avant-garde, transcending the idea of one style in favour of radical experimentation. Guest curated by Anke Kempkes, a leading expert in the field of female avant-garde art, this landmark London exhibition spanning Ropac's entire gallery marks a further turning point at which female artists pioneered new art movements and subverted the avant-garde language of the time.
(Read full text, here.)
(Read: Land of Lads: Celebrating the Female Avant-Garde, by Louise Benson in "Elephant"magazine)
Wanda Czelkowska next to her installation The Table, 4th Krakow Meeting, Exhibition Pavilion BWA, Krakow, 1971
Wanda Czelkowska, Head, 1968
Rosemarie Castoro working in her Soho Studio in 1967
Rosemarie Castoro, Land of Lashes, (archival photograph), 1976
Rosemarie Castoro, Land of Lads, (installation view), 1976

Rosemarie Castoro, Blue Red Gold Pink Green Yellow Y Bar, 1965
Rosemarie Castoro, Red Red Blue Green Ochre Black, 1975
Lydia Okumura in front of her sculpture Labyrinth, Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, 1984
Lydia Okumura, In Front of Light First, realized at the International Biennial of São Paulo, 1977
Lydia Okumura, Labyrinth (Variant II), concept first realized at the Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, 1984

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