Agnès Thurnauer
Vorlage:Europe-artist-stub Vorlage:Infobox artist Agnès Thurnauer (born 1962) is a French-Swiss contemporary artist.[1] Primarily a painter, she also works with a number of other media and techniques.[2]
Biography
Agnès Thurnauer was born in 1962, in Paris, France, where she continues to live and work.[3] She attended the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, where she studied video art.[4]
Notable works
In 2005, Thurnauer first exhibited her work Portraits grandeur nature, a series of oversized buttons displaying the names of well-known artists, mostly male, transformed into names evoking the opposite gender. For example, Marcel Duchamp is Marcelle Duchamp and Andy Warhol is Annie Warhol. An exception is the button reading Louis Bourgeois, a masculinized version of the name of the artist Louise Bourgeois.[5] This work, which questions both the literal and figurative representation of women in art, propelled her to previously unattained notoriety as an artist.[6]
References
- ↑ Agnès Thurnauer. In: Centre Pompidou. Abgerufen am 10. März 2015.
- ↑ Palais de Tokyo: Notre histoire : une scène artistique française émergente. Paris Musées, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-87900-950-2, S. 209.
- ↑ Clément Dirié, Elisabeth Lebovici, Daniel Sausset: Agnès Thurnauer. monografik éditions, Blou 2008, S. 162–185.
- ↑ Carole Boulbès: Portrait. Agnès Thurnauer. In: Critique d'art. 10. Februar 2012, abgerufen am 10. März 2015.
- ↑ Agnès Thurnauer, Portraits Grandeur Nature, 2007-2008. In: elles@centrepompidou. Centre Pompidou, 2007, abgerufen am 10. März 2015.
- ↑ La Collection : Agnès Thurnauer ou "le surgissement de l'être peinture". In: Arte. 16. August 2012, abgerufen am 10. März 2015.