Femmes chez les Nabis: De fil en aiguille
Charlotte Foucher Zarmanian
Musée de Pont-Aven & Éditions Faton, 2024
€29,00
In 1954, the art historian Agnès Humbert noted in her book Les Nabis et leur époque (1888-1900) that “there never was a Nabie”. Certainly, all the women who gravitated around Mogens Ballin, József Rippl-Rónaï, Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Maurice Denis, Georges Lacombe, Paul-Elie Ranson, Edouard Vuillard, Ker-Xavier Roussel, Aristide Maillol, Paul Sérusier, Georges Lacombe, are not strictly speaking “Nabies”.
They evolved within the group, not as artists in their own right, but as collaborators, assistants, moral, financial and emotional support. The role and action of women among the Nabis are presented as being closely correlated to those of men, adopting conventions and places that were traditionally assigned to women at the time. This entourage populated by wives, sisters, mothers, mothers-in-law and lovers is intended as an entry point to look closely at the conditions of production, the logic of influences and the creative processes at work among the Nabis.
In the extension of several recent works, the exhibition wishes to question the existing tensions between the work and the work, the aesthetic and the useful, art and craftsmanship, amateurism and professionalism, the artist and the model, the active and the passive, the visible and the invisible, to complicate a vision that has often been masculine, divided and not very mixed of the group. (IN FRANS)
ISBN: 9782878443677
