MoMA PS1 presents the first comprehensive retrospective of Carolee Schneemann, spanning the artist’s prolific six-decade career. As one of the most influential artists of the second part of the 20th century, Schneemann’s pioneering investigations into subjectivity, the social construction of the female body, and the cultural biases of art history have had significant influence on subsequent generations of artists.
Carolee Schneemann. Portrait Partials. Courtesy the artist, P.P.O.W, and Galerie Lelong, New York. © 2017 Carolee Schneemann.
Carolee Schneemann: Kinetic Painting begins with rarely seen examples of the artist’s early paintings of the 1950s and their evolution into assemblages made in the 1960s, which integrated objects, mechanical elements, and modes of deconstruction.
Carolee Schneemann. Nude on Tracks. Courtesy the artist, P.P.O.W, and Galerie Lelong, New York. Photo: Charles Stein. © 2017 Carolee Schneemann.
In the late 1960s Schneemann began positioning her own body within her work, performing the roles of “both image and image-maker“. As a central protagonist of the New York downtown avant-garde community, she explored hybrid artistic forms culminating in experimental theater events.
Carolee Schneemann. Nude on Tracks. Courtesy the artist, P.P.O.W, and Galerie Lelong, New York. Photo: Charles Stein. © 2017 Carolee Schneemann.
The exhibition considers Schneemann’s oeuvre within the context of painting by tracing the developments that led to her groundbreaking innovations in performance, film, and installation in the 1970s, as well as her increasingly spatialized multimedia installations from the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s.
Carolee Schneemann. Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions for Camera. Courtesy the artist, P.P.O.W, and Galerie Lelong, New York. Photos: Erró 1963/2005. © 2017 Carolee Schneemann.
Image 01: Carolee Schneemann. Meat Joy. Courtesy the artist, P.P.O.W, and Galerie Lelong, New York. Photo: Al Giese. © 2017 Carolee Schneemann.
Carolee Schneemann: Kinetic Painting
October 22, 2017 – March 11, 2018
MoMA PS1, New York City, USA
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