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<div>Agnès Thurnauer:<i> Portrait Grandeur Nature (Marcelle
Duchamp)</i>, 2009, epoxy resin and color, collection of Centre
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<div>The central line of the exhibited works is constituted by the
series of large objects/pictures<i> Portraits Grandeur Nature</i>
(2007-2009) which were also on display for viewers in Centre Pompidou
in Paris. The core of this series is the textual transformation of
male names - the key personalities of the 20th century art history -
into their female variations. “The buttons' - round suspended
objects create an allusion to traditional portraits, which in this
case rather substitute (than represent) fictitious female figures. In
the conceptual pictures we thus recognize the female artists Marcelle
Duchamp, Annie Warhol, Jacqueline Pollock as well as some others, who
are absent from the history.<br>
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<div>Through the feminized portraits of famous male artists Agnès
Thurnauer raises the question of importance of the gender aspect in
perceiving a painting or any art work in general. She highlights the
fatal inequality of the representation of women and men in the history
of visual arts, but rather than criticising the written history of art
she seeks to confuse its unambiguous gender - 'male reading'.<br>
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<div>More info: <a
href="http://bit.ly/AgnesThurnauerKHBeng"><u
>bit.ly/AgnesThurnauerKHBeng</u></a></div>
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<div>Kunsthalle Bratislava</div>
<div>www.kunsthallebratislava.sk/en</div>
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