The exhibition FLAESH at Galerie Rudolfinum (Prague) presents a selected body of works by five female artists: Marlene Dumas, Tracey Emin, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Kiki Smith and Louise Bourgeois.
It explores the human body’s function and role in contemporary art, questioning whether art is still a reflection of the body or, increasingly, a surface on which we project inner life.
It examines what contents and modern dogmas we communicate in the human form, whether this may be a proxy means of expressing hard-to-grasp mental tribulations and joys, and whether and how a figure can reflect heightened emotions emerging from unavoidable historical faults or personal tragedies.
Five separate presentations, five individual paths with different starting points that have followed disparate courses, routes and directions, yet each able to act and function as a key unlocking the interpretation of certain other works of the others that are exhibited in parallel.
The exhibition, ambiguously entitled “Flaesh”, has been prepared in close personal cooperation with the individual artists, their studios and galleries. A separate hall is devoted to the work of each of the artists, every one forming an exhibition in and of itself. This collection of more than sixty sculptures, drawings, watercolours, pieces of embroidery and installations delivers an overview of important chapters in the output of the selected artists.
Flaesh
01.10.2015 – 03.01.2016
Louise Bourgeois, Arched Figure, 1993. Courtesy of Hauser & Wirth
Berlinde De Bruyckere, Piëta, 2008. Courtesy of Hauser & Wirth
Kiki Smith, Garland, 2012. Courtesy of Kiki Smith, Pace Gallery
Marlene Dumas, Sailor‘s Dream, 1996. Courtesy of Collection M HKA, Collection Flemish Community
Tracey Emin, She Lay Down Deep Beneath The Sea, 2012. Courtesy of Tracey Emin, White Cube
Berlinde De Bruyckere, J.L., 2006. Courtesy of Berlinde De Bruyckere, Hauser & Wirth
Discover: www.galerierudolfinum.cz
