ExhibitionOctober 15, 2023
Marisol: A Retrospective. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
"Marisol: A Retrospective" is a major touring exhibition and is the most comprehensive survey ever devoted to the groundbreaking artist Marisol (1930-2016). The Buffalo AKG Art Museum organized the exhibition with the support of a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation.
Marisol was born in Paris to Venezuelan parents and spent her youth between Caracas, New York, and Los Angeles. Marisol became famous for her edgy works but also for her place in New York's art scene. There, she met Andy Warhol, who would include her in several of his films. In 1968, she represented Venezuela at the Venice Biennale and was one of only four women among the 149 artists selected for that year's Documenta exhibition in Kassel, Germany. Marisol continued her sculpture practice while exploring other media, such as drawing, printmaking, and photography. She also designed sets and costumes for dance companies, and she would eventually create public monuments to historical figures worldwide.
In addition to Marisol's canonical works from the 1960s and 1970s and later projects, this retrospective exhibition includes examples of the artist's source materials, sketches, studies, and personal photographs to elucidate her working methods, life, and times further. Moreover, an extensive installation of the artist's figurative drawings from the 1970s points to the relationship between her sculptural self-portraits and these almost confessional works, suggesting new biographical and feminist approaches to Marisol's positioning and self-presentation.
The Buffalo AKG Art Museum, DelMonico Books, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (for the French version) published a catalog in English and French to accompany the exhibition. It brings together essays by Cathleen Chaffee, Anna Katherine Brodbeck, Estrellita Brodsky, Alex Da Corte, Jessica S. Hong, Delia Solomons, and Julia Vázquez, as well as an examination of the connections between Marisol's work and the field of dance written by Mary-Dailey Desmarais, Chief Curator of the MMFA.
Marisol was born in Paris to Venezuelan parents and spent her youth between Caracas, New York, and Los Angeles. Marisol became famous for her edgy works but also for her place in New York's art scene. There, she met Andy Warhol, who would include her in several of his films. In 1968, she represented Venezuela at the Venice Biennale and was one of only four women among the 149 artists selected for that year's Documenta exhibition in Kassel, Germany. Marisol continued her sculpture practice while exploring other media, such as drawing, printmaking, and photography. She also designed sets and costumes for dance companies, and she would eventually create public monuments to historical figures worldwide.
In addition to Marisol's canonical works from the 1960s and 1970s and later projects, this retrospective exhibition includes examples of the artist's source materials, sketches, studies, and personal photographs to elucidate her working methods, life, and times further. Moreover, an extensive installation of the artist's figurative drawings from the 1970s points to the relationship between her sculptural self-portraits and these almost confessional works, suggesting new biographical and feminist approaches to Marisol's positioning and self-presentation.
The Buffalo AKG Art Museum, DelMonico Books, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (for the French version) published a catalog in English and French to accompany the exhibition. It brings together essays by Cathleen Chaffee, Anna Katherine Brodbeck, Estrellita Brodsky, Alex Da Corte, Jessica S. Hong, Delia Solomons, and Julia Vázquez, as well as an examination of the connections between Marisol's work and the field of dance written by Mary-Dailey Desmarais, Chief Curator of the MMFA.
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