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The exhibition is focused on the most important projects created by Maria Pinińska-Bereś, mainly originating in the '70s and '80s. These works explore various facets of female sexuality, what critics have called a precursor to Polish feminist art of the west. Soft, organic forms with erotic sounds and in candy pink colors emanating female corporeality and evoking the aura of the boudoir - the contractual place of pleasure and erotic kitsch produced by urban culture…
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Maria Pinińska-Bereś, "Deconstruction of a leaning tower I", 1994, photo: press release
The exhibition is focused on the most important projects created by Maria Pinińska-Bereś, mainly originating in the '70s and '80s. These works explore various facets of female sexuality, what critics have called a precursor to Polish feminist art of the west
Soft, organic forms with erotic sounds and in candy pink colors emanating female corporeality and evoking the aura of the boudoir - the contractual place of pleasure and erotic kitsch produced by urban culture. The soft structures, emanate with feminine carnality, encouraging with its form to touch, engaging several senses simultaneously. Already at the turn of the 60s and 70 Bereś undertook the topics related to the issue of traditional roles ascribed to women.
The exhibit spans such works as Pink Things" / "różowe obiekty, With a rose between my teeth" / "Z różą w zębach (1970), Erotic Sleeping Bag" / "Becik Erotyczny (1974), The great vaulting" / "Wielka woltyżerka (1987) and Princess Y" / "Księżniczka Y (1987). The exhibition also features her work from the 90s: Windows" / "Okna and Parytatura" / "Partytury.
Maria Pinińska-Bereś (1931-199) was born in 1931 in Poznań. She studied traditional sculpture in the studio of Xawery Dunikowski at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, she replaced her composition with light forms - fabric or sponge materials - tinted in a pink color. Her works are in major museum collections in Poland and abroad in the National Museums in Kraków, Wrocław, Poznań and Warsaw, the Centre of Polish Sculpture in the Museum in Bochum. Recently, the artist's achievements was recollected at the Zachęta Gallery exhibition entitled Three Women, which also featured Natalia LL and Ewa Partum.
The exhibition runs between May 20 - June 10, 2011.
Piekara's Gallery
ul. Piekary 5
Poznań
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