Carolee Schneemann | Action, Gesture, Performance: Women Artists and Global Abstraction | Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles

Hales is thrilled to announce the inclusion of Carolee Schneemann in Action, Gesture, Performance: Women Artists and Global Abstraction at the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, through 22 October 2023. 

 

Reaching beyond the predominantly white, male painters whose names are synonymous with the Abstract Expressionist movement, this exhibition celebrates the practices of the numerous international women artists working with gestural abstraction in the aftermath of the Second World War.

 

It is often said that the Abstract Expressionist movement began in the USA, but this exhibition's geographic breadth demonstrates that artists from all over the world were exploring similar themes of materiality, freedom of expression, perception and gesture, endowing gestural abstraction with their own specific cultural contexts - from the rise of fascism in parts of South America and East Asia to the influence of Communism in Eastern Europe and China.

 

 

Carolee Schneemann

Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles

35 Rue du Dr Fanton

13200 Arles

France

 

3 June - 22 October 2023