Les Garçonnes
Gauli Zitter•Nov 22, 2024 — Dec 21, 2024
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GRITLI FAULHABER presents a series of new works on canvas in this exhibition titled “Les Garçonnes”, a reference to the subculture of women in the “roaring twenties”. The 1920s flapper-like style of bobbed hair, knee-height skirts, and make up went along with female emancipation: women were suddenly and playfully adopting stereotypical male behaviors such as smoking, drinking, driving, and sexual promiscuity. There was an attempt to overturn socially forced codes on female gender roles: The romantic glamor of the period hid its darker premise.
The artist roughly divides these paintings into two groups (one is magenta-heavy, the other plays with yellow and blue), in which color takes center stage. The artist’s interest in historic painting and fashion snippets, such as the illustrations by Danish artist Gerda Wegener, features predominant color fields. Bodies of color are brought to life near human bodies, occasionally obscuring or concealing them, indicating the history of...More
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Les Garçonnes
Gauli Zitter•Nov 22, 2024 — Dec 21, 2024
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GRITLI FAULHABER presents a series of new works on canvas in this exhibition titled “Les Garçonnes”, a reference to the subculture of women in the “roaring twenties”. The 1920s flapper-like style of bobbed hair, knee-height skirts, and make up went along with female emancipation: women were suddenly and playfully adopting stereotypical male behaviors such as smoking, drinking, driving, and sexual promiscuity. There was an attempt to overturn socially forced codes on female gender roles: The romantic glamor of the period hid its darker premise.
The artist roughly divides these paintings into two groups (one is magenta-heavy, the other plays with yellow and blue), in which color takes center stage. The artist’s interest in historic painting and fashion snippets, such as the illustrations by Danish artist Gerda Wegener, features predominant color fields. Bodies of color are brought to life near human bodies, occasionally obscuring or concealing them, indicating the history of...More
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