The Amazons Are Back for a Summer of Pop Art in France
On the occasion of the Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain de Nice’s 30th anniversary, the She-Bam Pow Pop Wizz! The Amazons of Pop exhibition plunges back on a strong axis of Nice history: the face-off between France and the United States and movements of appropriation between New Realism and Pop.
Behind the French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle, the emblematic figure of the museum’s collection, a whole generation (European and North American) of amazons of art is being honored. This exhibition redraws for the first time in France, and in Europe, the history of a female generation who, between 1961 and 1973, contributed to the history of Pop Art.
This new historical and cultural perspective, echoing contemporary societal issues, confirms the museum’s mission of research and its contribution to an updated vision of the POP Art.
The exhibition has been extended until August 29, 2021, to allow the public to discover these flamboyant "Amazons" and the unique rereading of the Pop Art canon.
List of artists and amazons include: Évelyne AXELL, Brigitte BARDOT, Marion BARUCH, Pauline BOTY, Martine CANNEEL, Lourdes CASTRO, Judy CHICAGO, Sister CORITA Kent, France CRISTINI, Christa DICHGANS, Rosalyn DREXLER, Jane FONDA, Ruth FRANCKEN, Giosetta FIORONI, Ángela GARCÍA, Jann HAWORTH, Dorothy IANNONE, Jacqueline DE JONG, Kiki KOGELNIK, Kay KURT, Nicola L, Natalia LL, Ketty LA ROCCA, Milvia MAGLIONE, Marie MENKEN, Lucia MARCUCCI, Louise NEVELSON, Isabel OLIVER, Yoko ONO, Ulrike OTTINGER, Martha ROSLER, Niki de SAINT PHALLE, Carolee SCHNEEMANN, Marjorie STRIDER, STURTEVANT, Hannah WILKE, and May WILSON, among others.
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