Annette Messager
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Annette Messager is a French
artist who was born in 1943. She is known mainly for her installation work which often incorporates photographs, prints and drawings, and various materials. Messager has exhibited and published her work extensively. She is the partner of artist Christian Boltanski
.
Messager attended the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, France but was eventually asked to leave because she spent her time at museums and movie theaters instead of going to school.
In 2005 her work was featured in the French Pavilion of the Venice Biennale
, where she won the Golden Lion for her Pinocchio-inspired installation that transformed the French pavilion into a casino. some of her most famous work is her exhibition the messengers(Mori art museum in Tokyo), which showcases a bunch of dead birds in sweaters which she knit herself, some of the birds heads were replaced by stuffed animal heads She had a solo exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou
in 2007.
Her work is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art
.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
artist who was born in 1943. She is known mainly for her installation work which often incorporates photographs, prints and drawings, and various materials. Messager has exhibited and published her work extensively. She is the partner of artist Christian Boltanski
Christian Boltanski
Christian Boltanski is French sculptor, photographer, painter and film maker.-Life and work:Having no formal art education, he began painting in 1958. Nevertheless, he first came to public attention in 1960 with few short films and publication of several notebooks...
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Messager attended the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, France but was eventually asked to leave because she spent her time at museums and movie theaters instead of going to school.
In 2005 her work was featured in the French Pavilion of the Venice Biennale
Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it. So too is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is held in even years...
, where she won the Golden Lion for her Pinocchio-inspired installation that transformed the French pavilion into a casino. some of her most famous work is her exhibition the messengers(Mori art museum in Tokyo), which showcases a bunch of dead birds in sweaters which she knit herself, some of the birds heads were replaced by stuffed animal heads She had a solo exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou
Centre Georges Pompidou
Centre Georges Pompidou is a complex in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil and the Marais...
in 2007.
Her work is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
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Solo exhibitions
- Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City 2011.
- Zachęta National Gallery, Warsaw 2010.
- Museo de Arte Contemporaneo (MARCO), Monterrey 2010.
- The Hayward Gallery, London 2009.
- Mori Art Museum, Tokyo 2008.
- Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2007.
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1995.
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1995.
- FRAC Picardie, 1993.
- Arnolfini, Bristol, 1992.
- Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 1992.
- Musee Departmentale, Chateau de Rochechouart, 1990.
- Musee de Grenoble, 1989.
- Gallerie d'Art contemporaine, Nice, 1986.
- Musee d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, 1984.
- Musee de Beaux-Arts, Calais, 1983.
- St. Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1981.
- St. Louis Art Museum, 1980.
- Galerie Gillespie-Laage, Paris, 1979, 1980.
- Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, 1977.
- Musee d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, 1974.
Selected Group Exhibitions
- elles@centrepompidou, The Pompidou Centre, 2010).
- New Works for a New Space. ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas, 1995.
- Arrested Childhood. Center of Contemporary Art, North Miami, 1994.
- A visage decouvert. Fondation cartier, Paris, 1992.
- Parallel Visions. Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, 1992.
- Images in Transition. National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. 1990.
- Today's Art and Erotism. Kunstverein, Bonn, 1982.
- Photography as Art. ICA, London, 1979.
- Couples. PS1, New York, 1978.
External links
- Interview with Annette Messager
- The Artists
- http://www.oneroom.org/sculptors/messager.html Source with some more references
- The Pompidou Centre (elles@centrepompidou, http://elles.centrepompidou.fr/blog/?p=953.
Biography
- Fabian Stech, J'ai parlé avec Lavier, Annette Messager, Sylvie Fleury, Hirschhorn, Pierre HuyghePierre HuyghePierre Huyghe is a French artist who works in a variety of media from film and video to public interventions. He won the Hugo Boss Prize from the Guggenheim Museum in 2002.-Biography:...
, Delvoye, D.F.G. Hou Hanru, Sophie CalleSophie CalleSophie Calle is a French writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Calle's work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the French literary movement of the 1960s known as Oulipo. Her work frequently depicts human vulnerability, and examines...
, Ming, Sans et Bourriaud. Presses du réel Dijon, 2007. - Sheryl Conkelton and Carol Eliel, Annette Messager. Los Angeles County Museum of Art & The Museum of Modern Art, New York.1995.