From October 13 to November 10, the famous Maison Guerlain exhibits, in its famous Parisian address at 68 avenue des Champs Elysées, a selection of works by women artists highlighting women. Inaugurated just before the FIAC, the exhibition And God created the woman is delightful and also allows you to visit a mythical address.
On the four levels, from the restaurant to the first floor via the ground floor and for the first time in the institute, no less than fifteen artists are represented. Between photographs, sculptures, video, textiles, it is a wide range of international contemporary creation that is expressed. Strength, sentimentality and femininity are expressed through the works exhibited in the different spaces. Creations by Pilar AlbarracÍn, Jane Evelyn Atwood, Katharina Bosse, Louise Bourgeois, Marlène Dumas, Valie Export, Judy Fox, Shilpa Gupta, Yayoi Kusama, Philippe Mayaux, Shirin Neshat, Triny Prada, Niki de Saint Phalle, Chiharu Shiota, Luise Unger, Hu Yinping and Billie Zangewa
In a dream setting, between the iconic bottles, the question that arises is that of the feminine essence of creation. Indeed, why do we talk about women artists when we never talk about male artists ?Why give a genre to art? The exhibition opens with the quote from Aragon "Woman is the future of man". This subject is at the heart of the book Femmes artistes/Artistes femmes, Paris de 1880 à nos jours by Catherine Gonnard and Elisabeth Lebovici published ten years ago.
Already this year, the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris had devoted an exhibition Works of Ladies to this subject. A few weeks ago, the photography exhibition Women as seen by women: Revelation ended from June 23 to August 27, 2017 by Jean-Luc Monterosso, director of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie. Caroline Massensee, the curator of the exhibition And God Created Woman , takes up this subject with the complicity of prestigious galleries and art centers. The choice of these artists is not trivial, all of them have, in their own way, questioned stereotypes and societal clichés to find their place as artists in their own right.
An unmissable exhibition if you go through the Champs Elysées, and, as it is free, you will have no excuse. For more information on the exhibition And God Created Woman.
