Women Artists visibility…
As an artist, I often explore both galleries and museums in my city. I try to do it as often as I can also when I travel. During my most recent trip to Venice, I was delighted to find the exhibition below.
The images below are from Museo Correr in Venice, a museum focused on the art and history of Venice, that was holding an exhibition in one of their rooms for Carla Accardi, “one of the most significant figures in 20th-century art. After World War II, she contributed to establishing non-figurative art in Italy by co-founding the Forma 1 abstract group in 1947 – the only woman in an entirely male cohort.”
I also stumbled upon a small exhibition by Fernanda Facciolli.
"Intensity"
In the wave of love
Works by Fernanda Facciolli inspired by love: maternal love, conjugal love and love in myth.
It always warms my heart when I get to see female artists in exhibits, both from the past and contemporary. For the most part I find it relatively easy to find female artists when I go around the city I call home, Oslo. Abroad, I have become accustomed to inquire as to how many women artists are held in permanent collections in museums, the numbers are discouraging for the most part. But I persist. I do believe that my questions will lead somewhere both in person and online.
It is also encouraging to see more books about women artists being included in the book shops in Oslo. Especially after I found so very many during my visits to London. It was disappointing back in January, but not unusual to be turned down from partnering with a local museum to hold a talk with Hettie Judah about her book How Not To Exclude Artist Mothers, and other parents; when I invited her to come and speak about the challenges Women Artists face as a result of a system that still puts the women at a disadvantage, and all the ways artists around the world are tackling these issues and creating opportunities and ways to work to resolve these issues.
The three titles in the video below are the books I look forward to read and which I found at Astrup Fearnley Museum Shop
My art journey is filled with moments of hope and determination, and probably with as many moments of challenges and discouragement. I am choosing to work past those challenges, and to do so by also bringing awareness to the disparity and obstacles women artists as myself continuously face.
