A WOMAN IS A WOMAN IS A WOMAN … A HISTORY OF THE FEMALE ARTISTS
27 AUGUST – 15 JANUARY 2023
AARGAUER KUNSTHAUS | AARAU, SWITZERLAND
Suzanne Baumann, Blaubart, 1991 Gouache auf Karton, 101 x 76.5 cm Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau / Schenkung Suzanne Baumann
Referring to the famous line "a rose is a rose is a rose" from Gertrude Stein's poem Sacred Emily, the exhibition delivers a hitherto rarely documented survey of the work of widely diverse female artists in Switzerland. It shows a cross-section of the themes and aesthetic forms that engaged the energies of these artists from the 1970s through to the 1990s. Aargauer Kunsthaus's collection forms the core of the exhibition which is supplemented with works on loan from private collectors and institutions.
In five thematically interlinked chapters guest curator Elisabeth Bronfen examines the relationship between visual art and sexual differences and draws into focus the specifically Swiss version of Postmodernism which speaks about and reflects upon a unique legacy of the modern and postwar eras.
