Bastienne Schmidt - Typology of Women
Ricco/Maresca
529 West 20th Street, 3rd Floor,
New York, New York 10011
(located in the 529 Arts Building, in between 10th and 11th ave)
Exhibition and book launch on the occasion of award-winning multi media artist and photographer Bastienne Schmidt’s latest publication “Typology of Women”.
The book comprises a series of hand-painted silhouette cutouts depicting female imagery across cultures and throughout history. Schmidt deliberately uses the term and concept of “typology”—the systematic classification of things according to shared characteristics—as a formal means to explore the symbolic and sociological dimensions of the “type,” thereby offering sharp insights into the complex processes by which female identity is constructed. Schmidt’s silhouettes (rendered in luminous orange as an ironic parallel to a reading of Simone de Beauvoir’s “The Second Sex” and Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own”) portray nuances while unfixing received ideas.
07/21/2016 – 08/19/2016
Ricco/Maresca
529 West 20th Street, 3rd Floor,
New York, New York 10011
(located in the 529 Arts Building, in between 10th and 11th ave)
Exhibition and book launch on the occasion of award-winning multi media artist and photographer Bastienne Schmidt’s latest publication “Typology of Women”.
The book comprises a series of hand-painted silhouette cutouts depicting female imagery across cultures and throughout history. Schmidt deliberately uses the term and concept of “typology”—the systematic classification of things according to shared characteristics—as a formal means to explore the symbolic and sociological dimensions of the “type,” thereby offering sharp insights into the complex processes by which female identity is constructed. Schmidt’s silhouettes (rendered in luminous orange as an ironic parallel to a reading of Simone de Beauvoir’s “The Second Sex” and Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own”) portray nuances while unfixing received ideas.
