Richard Saltoun Gallery

Natalia MARKOWSKA uses her body and its processes in her work, which encompasses video, performance and installation. By incorporating sound, found objects and a variety of natural and hand-made materials, her practice interrogates the subjective experience of living in a gender-coded body. Discover her work by watching her video piece 'Breath' (2018) below.
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It's the last week to see Lili DUJOURIE: 'Ballade: Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality' — closing this Saturday 25 May 2019. — 'Primula Primrose' (Pictured here) From Latin feminine diminuitive of primus, “first” (prime). Used for laryngitis, bronchitis and gout.... More info on Dujourie here: https://bit.ly/2JDZQgb
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Rebecca HORN is a German artist known for her performances which involve prosthetic uniforms and sculptural installations. Often dealing with the body and physical sensations, her uniforms are outfitted with exaggerated extensions of the face, hands, and mouth as seen in her hallmark work ‘Einhorn (Unicorn)’ (pictured here). Emerging onto the art scene in the late 1960s, Horn was part of a generation of artists whose work challenged the institutions, forces and structures that governed not only the art world but society at large. In art, this meant a renewed critical focus on the human body, contesting the commodification of art objects by foregrounding the individual. #365daysofwomeninart #100percentwomen

Martha ROSLER is an artist working with video, photography, text, installation, and performance. Her work focuses on the public sphere, exploring issues from everyday life and the media to architecture and the built environment, especially as they affect women. Her work frequently compels the viewer to rethink the boundaries between the public and the private, the social and political. 'Photo Op', 2004 (pictured here) from the series, 'Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful',... is a critique of the war in Iraq and draws in an immediate comparison with the Vietnam war, which Roesler also has critiqued. Re-connecting the reality of a distant war with the living rooms of America, she underlines the relationship between the spoils of war and a consumerist society. Check more of Martha Rosler's work here: http://www.martharosler.net/index.html #365daysofwomeninart #100percentwomen
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Maria LASSNIG (1919–2014) was an Austrian painter known for her psychologically expressive self-portraits, often semi-abstract, exploring “body awareness” using distorted or exaggerated features to depict internal sensations and feelings. Her career spanned over 50 years but Lassnig only began to receive international attention when she was well into her 60s, garnering major exhibitions such as a retrospective in 2014 at MoMA P.S.1 museum Image: Maria Lassnig, 'What next', 2007 #365daysofwomeninart #Women #100percentwomen

Roni HORN is an American contemporary artist using drawing, photography, installation, sculpture and literature. Horn’s work consistently questions and generates uncertainty to thwart closure in her work, engaging with many different concerns and materials. Important across her oeuvre is her longstanding interest to the protean nature of identity, meaning, and perception, as well as the notion of doubling; issues which continue to propel Horn’s practice. Image: Roni Horn, 'Untitled ("Sometimes I think I resemble myself too much. I have always been someone else...")' 2010 #365daysofwomeninart #Womenartists #Femaleartist #Women #100percentwomen #RichardSaltounGallery

Kate COOPER is contemporary artist — working with video and photography. She explores the position of the female body in the history of digital image technology and the labour and politics inherent within commercial production. Cooper is interested in what new propositions of refusal, sabotage or autonomy this form of working might propose.
View Cooper's work, a new large-scale video installation composed of video works that focus on the vulnerability and instability of the... body, in her current solo exhibition at the Southbank Centre, HENI Project Space, Hayward Gallery 15 May —23 June 2019 More info: https://bit.ly/2VHyvAX — Image: Kate Cooper, 'Untitled (After Infection Drivers)', 2019 #365daysofwomeninart #100percentwomen
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A new exhibition with conceptual artist Li YUAN-CHIA (1929-1994) is opening this week at the LYC Museum & Art Gallery — Whitworth Fine Art
'Li Yuan-chia: Unique Photographs' will focus on YUAN-CHIA's photography — mostly set in the quiet of autumn and winter, these photographs convey a melancholy beauty from the last years of the artist’s life. Exhibition dates: 18 May — 15 December 2019 Image: Li Yuan-chia, 'Untitled', c1993 ... More info: https://bit.ly/2VY3kkh
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Claude CAHUN (1894 – 1954) was a Surrealist photographer whose work explored gender identity and the subconscious mind. Her work was both political and personal, and often undermining traditional concepts of static gender roles. In her autobiography, Disavowals, she explained, “Masculine? Feminine? It depends on the situation. Neuter is the only gender that always suits me.” Image: Claude CAHUN, 'Self Portrait', 1927 #365daysofwomeninart #100percentwomen

A new retrospective of American artist Lee KRASNER (1908 – 1984) is opening at the Barbican Centre 30 May 2019. The exhibition 'Lee Krasner: Living Colour' features nearly 100 works — many on show in the UK for the first time — from across her 50-year career, and tells the story of a formidable artist whose importance has often been eclipsed by her marriage to Jackson Pollock.

Congratulations to the Lithuanian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2019 — winning the Golden Lion for the biennale's best national pavilion! It is three women behind the chilling and engaging climate change project: theater director Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, playwright Vaiva Grainytė, and composer Lina Lapelytė. Together they have created a beach set pavilion, which presents a subtly unnerving performance about the laziness, that leads to the end of the world. Performers of all a...ges and sizes act out every day actions, laying on towels under beach umbrellas, scrolling through their iPhones and thumbing through magazines, everything happens to the soundtrack of seagulls and minor inconveniences and complaints. Image: 'Sun & Sea', Lithuania's contribution to the 2019 Venice Biennale. Photo: Neon Realism. #venicebiennale #Womenartists #Femaleartist #Women #365daysofwomeninart #100percentwomen #RichardSaltounGallery
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The exhibition 'Eleanor Antin: Time's Arrow' is now open at @lacma
In 1972, Antin challenged definitions of sculpture, self-portraiture, photographic documentation, and performance with the work 'CARVING: A Traditional Sculpture' — consisting of 148 black-and-white photographs, 'CARVING' shows the transformation of Antin’s body as she lost 10 pounds over 37 days.
In 2017, Antin restaged her landmark performance. In 'CARVING: 45 Years Later', the artist again documented hers...elf as she “carved” her body, producing 500 black-and-white photographs over the course of 100 days. 'Eleanor Antin: Time's Arrow' brings together both the 'CARVING' series, a new self-portrait, and a related serial work from the 1970s, provoking reflection on discipline, vulnerability, and the passage of time.
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This week we dedicate our #365daysofwomeninart to the women artists showing at the 58th International Art Exhibition — Venice Biennale 2019. Eva ROTHSCHILD is representing the Irish Pavilion with the installation 'The Shrinking Universe'. The installation continues her exploration of sculptural presence, and presents a physical environment which materially resonates with current political concerns and our ongoing sense of global uncertainty. Learn more about Rothschild in the Wallpaper* Magazine interview: https://bit.ly/2VW04po

This week we dedicate our #365daysofwomeninart to the women artists showing at the 58th International Art Exhibition — Venice Biennale 2019. Turner prize winner (2018) Charlotte PRODGER will be representing Scotland and show a new single-channel video called 'SaF05', (2019) (Pictured here). 'SaF05' is the last in a trilogy of videos that began with 'Stoneymollan Trail' (2015) and was followed by 'BRIDGIT' (2016). This autobiographical cycle traces the accumulation of affini...ties, desires and losses that form a self as it moves forward in time.
About the artist: Charlotte Prodger is a British artist working with moving image, printed image, sculpture and writing. Her work explores issues surrounding queer identity, landscape, language, technology and time. #CharlottePRODGER #venicebiennale #100percentwomen
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This week we dedicate our #365daysofwomeninart to the women artists showing at the 58th International Art Exhibition — Venice Biennale 2019. Artist Njideka AKUNYILI CROSBY will show her work as part of curator Ralph Rugolff's presentation 'May You Live in Interesting Time'. The title of the presentation stems from, 'a speech given in the late 1930s by the British MP Sir Austen Chamberlain, who invoked an ancient Chinese curse that he had learned of from a British diplomat w...ho had served in Asia, and which took the curious form of saying, 'May you live in interesting times.' – states Rugolff. More info: https://bit.ly/2V4e6AY
About the artist: Drawing on art historical, political and personal references, Njideka Akunyili Crosby creates densely layered figurative compositions that, precise in style, nonetheless conjure the complexity of contemporary experience. Akunyili Crosby was born in Nigeria, where she lived until the age of sixteen. In 1999 she moved to the United States, where she has remained since that time. Her cultural identity combines strong attachments to the country of her birth and to her adopted home, a hybrid identity that is reflected in her work.
Image: Njideka Akunyili Crosby, 'Mama, Mummy, and Mamma (Predecessors #2)', 2014 #NjidekaAkunyiliCrosby #venicebiennale #100percentwomen
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This week we dedicate our #365daysofwomeninart to the women artists showing at the 58th International Art Exhibition — Venice Biennale 2019. The imaginative and conceptual artist Laure PROUVOST is presenting the French Pavilion with her project “Deep See Blue Surrounding You”, a video and installation work in which “liquid modernity” is represented through the tentacular body of an octopus. Get to know Prouvost and her semifictional world in the interview on Financial Times...
About the artist: Language – in its broadest sense – permeates the video, sound, installation and performance work of French multi-media artist Laure Prouvost. Known for her immersive and mixed-media installations that combine film and installation in humorous and idiosyncratic ways, Prouvost’s work addresses miscommunication and things getting lost in translation. #LaureProuvost #venicebiennale#100percentwomen
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This week we dedicate our #365daysofwomeninart to the women artists showing at the 58th International Art Exhibition — Venice Biennale 2019. Artists Chiara FUMAI and Liliana MORO will represent the Italian pavilion together with artist Enrico DAVID. The pavilion will combine the three artists interest in the inextinguishable desire to explore territories where daily life, survival, tradition and narration have a strong presence. The theme of the pavilion's work is routed in ...the challenge to get to the Labyrinth.
About the artists:
Chiara Fumai’s, passed away prematurely in 2017, her practice was centered on performance and its tradition of female psychics, seeing the artist dealing with radical feminism, media culture, language and repression. Performance was always a starting point for Fumai, but it would frequently develop into installations, videos, collages and performative displays.
Liliana MORO's work is characterized by essentiality, through which objects, sounds, and performances portray a crude and poetic reality, which invites the viewer to go beyond what is visible.
Image: Video still of Chiara Fumai’s, 'Chiara Fumai Reads Valerie Solanas', 2013. #ChiaraFumai #LilianaMORO #venicebiennale #100percentwomen
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This week we dedicate our #365daysofwomeninart to the women artists showing at 58th International Art Exhibition —Venice Biennale 2019. First up is Cathy WILKES representing the British Pavilion. Wilkes’ exhibition for the Biennale Arte 2019 is bathed in natural Venetian daylight. The unadorned architecture of the British Pavilion provides the setting for an interconnected series of floor-bound sculptural installations, paintings and prints.
About the artist: Cathy WILKES i...s a contemporary artist, part of the generation of artists, who emerged in the mid-1990s. Wilkes is primarily known for her large-scale installations of seemingly disparate objects, many of which are distressed, damaged, altered or adapted. Her ensembles slowly evolve out of a working method that begins with the meticulous collection and selection of materials and ends with the measured task of arrangement, re-arrangement, making and re-making. #CathyWilkes #venicebiennale #100percentwomen
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