Femme
dal 27/10/2003 al 8/11/2003
Segnalato da
27/10/2003
Femme
Gallery Neubacher, Toronto
The collaborative portrait project by Gerda Neubacher. Bringing a whole new approach to an old tradition, Neubacher's portraiture project Femme literally fixes a mic on the customarily silent muse. Over 30 of Canada's most intriguing and accomplished women spoke and Neubacher listened.
The collaborative portrait project by Gerda Neubacher
Toronto (15 October 2003) Â Gallery Neubacher announced today the opening of
an innovative new exhibition of paintings by internationally renowned artist
Gerda Neubacher. Bringing a whole new approach to an old tradition,
Neubacher's portraiture project FEMME literally fixes a mic on the
customarily silent muse. Over 30 of Canada's most intriguing and
accomplished women spoke and Neubacher listened. Sensing clandestine hopes
from bashful mumblings, the simple act of two women talking yields something
fresh and honest-the collaborative portrait.
Starting with a videotaped interview, the women become vocal participants in
what the artist sees, and directly influence this exploration into how women
see themselves. These extraordinary portraits capture, with brilliant color
and incisive line, the psyches of her sitters. Each woman has a unique
story sometimes contradictory to her social persona. Catherine Bratty and
Catherine Nugent; Chumcity's Mary Powers; The Blue Jays' Lisa Novak; and
former Sun Media executive Trudy Eagan are just five of the women captured
with wit and intense insight in Neubacher's powerful and personal show.
By capturing the unique perspectives of this highly successful group of
women, the Neubacher gives powerful insight into the ways women manage to
'make it' on their own terms. These ravishing portraits capture the
intelligence, high spirit, strong will, and intense personal motivation of
women who have defined victory for themselves.
Her portraits of women reveal aspects of women's lives and experiences
obscured in Western art history, which represents women primarily as saints,
Madonnas, and idealized nudes. Neubacher's images of women instead reveal
the often-invisible constellation of feelings and issues that have
historically preoccupied women's lives. She is creating the context for how
women become human in art.
>From boudoir to boardroom, the resulting images charm and provoke both
intimacy and revelation. Reinvigorating the practice of portraiture, as
well as challenging presumptions on the passive subject, Neubacher achieves
a rare, wondrous symbiosis between art and life, women and representation.
About Gerda Neubacher:
Gerda Neubacher's remarkable career has spanned over 30 years in Canada,
Europe and the United States. In addition to a multitude of commissions by
private and corporate clients and a busy exhibition schedule across Canada
and Europe, Gerda illustrated over ten children's books, two of which were
awarded the prestigious Golden Book Award.
As with FEMME, Gerda continues to explore a concept that has become the
foundation for her career: fascination with women and society's desire for
constant beauty. Not only is there a harmony to the female form that is
evident in the majority of her work, each piece challenges and re-invents
the common perception of the woman as self and the universal strength of the
gender.
RSVP Reception Media and VIP: 6 p.m Tuesday, October 28th, 2003. (please
rsvp by Saturday 26th).
Special quests: 7-10 p.m. Tuesday, October 28th, 2003
Show Dates: October 28 Â November 8, 2003
From boudoir to boardroom FEMME celebrates some of Toronto's most intriguing
and accomplished women.
About Gallery Neubacher:
Gallery Neubacher promises to introduce and contribute to the development of
emerging artists as well as showcase the talents of more established
contemporary artists working in all media. Gallery Neubacher is located
within a stone's throw of Toronto's celebrated Yorkville gallery district.
Gallery Neubacher
81 St. Nicolas Street
Toronto
416-963-5138