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07.06.―11.09.2016
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
Kaufmann Repetto
Milan, Italy





kaufmann repetto is pleased to announce Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, a group exhibition featuring works by Judith Bernstein, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Leidy Churchman, VALIE EXPORT, Guerrilla Girls, Ele D’Artagnan, Anthea Hamilton, Lena Henke, Sanya Kantarovsky, Lee Lozano, Margherita Manzelli, Carol Rama and Anicka Yi.

The exhibition is the second chapter of an ongoing series of exhibitions commenced in 2013 with the group show entitled Revolution from Within. This series intends to bring a deliberate attention to an inclusive approach to femininity and an awareness to gender related issues within the art world and beyond; topics that have been fundamental in the gallery’s navigation since its establishment in 2000.

In her last novel, The Blazing World, Siri Hustvedt recounts the vicissitudes of a female artist who creates a series of male artist alter-egos to demonstrate that “All intellectual and artistic endeavors, even jokes, ironies and parodies, fare better in the mind of the crowd when the crowd knows that somewhere behind the great work or the great spoof it can locate a cock and a pair of balls.” The exhibition extends a dialogue exploring womanhood and femininity within the art world, developing this investigation through an all-encompassing approach to the natural coalescing and cross over of what has been conventionally designated as “masculine” or “feminine” in artistic practice. How do we perceive the feminine context of art making through the prescribed mask of institutional misogyny? Who determines a hierarchy between “macho” and “feminine”? How do gender and femininity overlap and interact, and how does this relation shift our perception of an artwork? Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, titled after Gloria Steinem’s feminist classic, will transgress the inherent meshing of vulnerability and rebellion as simultaneous catalysts of revolution. It will explore the taboos – “kindness”, “ornamentalism”, “sensuality”, “voluptuousness”, ”disobedience” – the oppositions, the extremes, and the in-betweens of feminine identity.

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