Annette Messager exhibition.
Annette Messager (born in 1943, lives and works in Paris) is widely regarded as one of Europe’s most important contemporary artists. The retrospective presents an overview of the artist’s career and reveals her use of an astonishing and affecting repertoire of forms and materials, among them soft toys, stuffed animals, fabrics, wool, photographs and drawings.
This exhibition presents a panoramic survey from the intimate and conceptually driven pieces Messager made in the early 1970s to the very large sculptural installations of the past 15 years, in which movement plays an increasingly important role.
Messagers work often includes a large number of small close up pictures of parts of the body. They are made up of small snapshots of themes ‘messanger’ deals with issues of sexual and physical abuse fragmentation of the body, sin, obssesion and apperances, fairy tales and children.
The Boarders (details), 1971-1972
I think that this one was the most shocking piece for many people. Ksenia actually can’t even talk about it!) I was admired by every part of the exhibition, that all told me so much.
That pigeons are cute) I liked the pre-history for this piece. Annette told in the interview that one day she stepped on dead pigeon… This part became the main theme for my exhibition poster:
