ExhibitionAugust 11, 2023
Karen Lamassonne at the Museum of Modern Art of Medellín
On July 29th, the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín (MAMM) inaugurated "Karen Lamassonne. Ruido / Noise" curated by Emiliano Valdés and Ana Ruiz. This is the first international exhibition of the work of the Colombian-American artist Karen Lamassonne. This itinerant exhibition has already been presented at the Swiss Institute in New York and KW in Berlin, and its third and last stop is the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín. Karen "Lamassonne. Ruido / Noise" is the first show to bring together works by the artist from 1974 to the present, offering a retrospective and complete overview of Lamassonne's oeuvre. This exhibition is part of an effort by the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín to promote and visibilize at the international and national level the work of women artists who have been neglected in art history narratives.
The artistic production of Karen Lamassonne (New York, 1954) is marked by a quest to capture in various media —painting, drawing, collage, and video— intimate spaces, when this inner world is taken to the exhibition space her oeuvre acquires a political and contentious value. Caridad Botella, in an article published by ArtNexus in 2019, states that Lamassonne's work "gives us access to situations that would normally be of intimacy, of an intimacy in silence", one that is crossed by "themes that have to do with the body, (...) everyday life, patriarchy, love, and sexual relationships, the relationship with family life, or the total denial of it". In the 1980s, Karen Lamassone was part of the Grupo de Cali, a reference collective in Colombian experimental cinema, and was linked to the Frente Fotográfico, a women photographers collective.
The exhibition will be on view until October 1, 2023 at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín (MAMM), Cra. 44 #19a-100, El Poblado, Medellín, Colombia.
Link to Karen Lamassonne's article in ArtNexus No.113:
https://www.artnexus.com/en/magazines/article-magazine-artnexus/62547f1750d85fdb65d79a40/113/karen-lamassonne-and-liliana-velez
The artistic production of Karen Lamassonne (New York, 1954) is marked by a quest to capture in various media —painting, drawing, collage, and video— intimate spaces, when this inner world is taken to the exhibition space her oeuvre acquires a political and contentious value. Caridad Botella, in an article published by ArtNexus in 2019, states that Lamassonne's work "gives us access to situations that would normally be of intimacy, of an intimacy in silence", one that is crossed by "themes that have to do with the body, (...) everyday life, patriarchy, love, and sexual relationships, the relationship with family life, or the total denial of it". In the 1980s, Karen Lamassone was part of the Grupo de Cali, a reference collective in Colombian experimental cinema, and was linked to the Frente Fotográfico, a women photographers collective.
The exhibition will be on view until October 1, 2023 at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín (MAMM), Cra. 44 #19a-100, El Poblado, Medellín, Colombia.
Link to Karen Lamassonne's article in ArtNexus No.113:
https://www.artnexus.com/en/magazines/article-magazine-artnexus/62547f1750d85fdb65d79a40/113/karen-lamassonne-and-liliana-velez
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