All About Eve - Ruth Marten
In the organizer's words:
The jazz era! Cinema! Sex! Josephine Baker! Surrealism!
Dangerous ideas! All this makes my heart leap when I
these prints, and I feel a tremendous kinship with these women.
tremendously related to these women. We are one body and one soul.
Ruth Marten, 2024
Ruth Marten, *1949, lives and works in New York City, NY/USA).
The exhibition shows her latest series All About Eve, which the American artist has been working on since 2022. The series reveals a complex structure that blurs between high and low art, transcends the boundaries of reality and genre, and is full of humor. Art historical references are mixed with her own pictorial inventions, which enter into a deep symbiosis with the original motif. One hundred years after the nude series of dancers from the Parisian variety theater Les Folies Bergère was created, Ruth Marten examines the dancers - captured by the British-Polish photographer Stanisław Julian Ignacy Ostroróg (1863-1929) - from today's perspective.
In 2003, Ruth Marten discovered her passion for working with old prints and photographs as the basis of her own artistic cosmos, which continues to this day. By reworking them in the form of drawings and collages, the artist creates a link between historical depictions and contemporary perspectives. Thematically, her works revolve around identity, nature and the animal world in relation to their human counterparts, fashion, dreams, sexuality and society's view of the role and appearance of women over the years. The allusion to the biblical Eve in All About Eve creates a link between the dancers depicted and archetypal notions of femininity.
of femininity. Ruth Marten removes "her" dancers from the male gaze and transfers each one into her own existence.
In addition to the works from the All About Eve series, the exhibition presents an overview of the artist's work to date with around 30 further works from 2008 to 2022.
The exhibition is curated by Dr. Ina Dinter.
A catalog will be published by Verlag Kettler, Dortmund.
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