"Corpo estraneo: fatti bella per la notte" by Greta Bisandola
This gorgeous and disconcerting drawing titled "Corpo estraneo: fatti bella per la notte" ["Foreign body: be pretty for the Night"} by Greta Bisandola will be part of an unusual group exhibition titled "Deposition: Drawn" with 20+ artists at North Park University opening on February 14, Valentine's Day 4:30 - 6:30 and run through March 9.
I find this drawing by Greta Bisandola to be strategically disturbing in it's juxtaposition of a young girl's head on a grown woman's (or, it seems to me, an Italian sculpture of a grown woman's) body. My "reading" of the piece is that it is a critique of how our culture relentlessly 1) expects young women to be "innocent" yet 2) persistently objectifies and forefronts idealized versions of the female body. For me the duality of Greta's drawing also speaks eloquently to who Temma is: an adult woman with the utterly innocent mind of a new born child.
This exhibition is an unusual mash-up of my work as curator (primarily as gallery director at NPU) and my work as an artist ( particularlly my work that is related to my most frequent subject, my daughter Temma). I sent each of the participating artists a unique prompt which was for me somehow related to Temma. The participating artists then made a drawing related to their prompt. They also developed an accompanying text / title for the drawing. And then they sent that text to me along with a high resolution scan of their drawing.
"Corpo estraneo: fatti bella per la notte" by Greta Bisandola
This gorgeous and disconcerting drawing titled "Corpo estraneo: fatti bella per la notte" ["Foreign body: be pretty for the Night"} by Greta Bisandola will be part of an unusual group exhibition titled "Deposition: Drawn" with 20+ artists at North Park University opening on February 14, Valentine's Day 4:30 - 6:30 and run through March 9.
I find this drawing by Greta Bisandola to be strategically disturbing in it's juxtaposition of a young girl's head on a grown woman's (or, it seems to me, an Italian sculpture of a grown woman's) body. My "reading" of the piece is that it is a critique of how our culture relentlessly 1) expects young women to be "innocent" yet 2) persistently objectifies and forefronts idealized versions of the female body. For me the duality of Greta's drawing also speaks eloquently to who Temma is: an adult woman with the utterly innocent mind of a new born child.
This exhibition is an unusual mash-up of my work as curator (primarily as gallery director at NPU) and my work as an artist ( particularlly my work that is related to my most frequent subject, my daughter Temma). I sent each of the participating artists a unique prompt which was for me somehow related to Temma. The participating artists then made a drawing related to their prompt. They also developed an accompanying text / title for the drawing. And then they sent that text to me along with a high resolution scan of their drawing.