Annette Messager
Rions Noir
Genebra, Quiquandquoi, 2003.
29 x 21 cm.
36 p.
ISBN: 2-940317-21-6
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Les Tortures Volontaires
Annette Messager
Les Tortures Volontaires / Voluntary Tortures
Textos de Annette Messager
Projeto gráfico Katja Jaeger
Hatje Cantz, 2013
Alemão, Inglês, Francês
92 p., 82 ills.
25,60 x 33,50 cm
ISBN 978-3-7757-3686-2
“A beleza não conhece nenhuma dor” é uma frase que, após um exame mais minucioso, é chocante e perturbadora. A artista francesa Annette Messager (nascida em 1943 em Berck) começou a perseguir essa ideia nos anos setenta, quando ela reuniu fotografias de revistas para sua inovadora série Les Tortures volontiers (Tortura voluntária).
Nas fotografias de Messager, que são tão alarmantes quanto absurdas, os seios são levantados por ventosas, coxas são massageadas com eletricidade, a esfoliação parece uma segunda camada de pele que foi removida. No entanto, o riso fica preso na garganta do espectador, porque mulheres em todo o mundo ainda se submetem a estes e outros procedimentos, a fim de se aproximar mais do padrão e parecer mais “bonitas.”
Messager recentemente redescobriu essas impressões em seu estúdio. Esta é a primeira vez que a série de oitenta e uma imagens foi publicada em sua totalidade e em seu tamanho original. No ensaio que acompanha o livro, a artista, cujo trabalho tem sido exibido várias vezes na Documenta, discute a gênese da série.
“Beauty knows no pain” is a phrase that, upon closer scrutiny, is shocking and disturbing. The French artist Annette Messager (*1943 in Berck) began pursuing this idea in the seventies when she assembled photographs from magazines for her groundbreaking series Les Tortures Volontiers (Voluntary Torture).
In Messager’s photographs, which are as alarming as they are absurd, breasts are lifted into suction cups, thighs are massaged with electricity, exfoliations look as if a second layer of skin is being peeled off. Yet the laughter sticks in the viewer’s throat, because women all around the world still actually submit themselves to these and other procedures in order to look more like the norm and more “beautiful.”
Messager recently rediscovered these prints in her studio. This is the first time the eighty-one-part series has been published in its entirety and in its original size. In the accompanying essay, the artist, whose work has been exhibited multiple times at the documenta, discusses the genesis of the series.
http://www.hatjecantz.de/annette-messager-5717-1.html
La femme et
Annette Messager
La femme et…
Paris, Dilecta, 2007
paperback, sewn
language : French
24 p.
20 x 15 cm
ISBN 978-2-916275-23-9
Playful and singular, Annette Messager’s work combines varied techniques (cutting, collage, painting, writing, embroidery) and reveals different facets of the artist: Annette Messager the collector, the cheater, the peddler, the practical woman…
In 1975, Annette Messager launched a cycle entitled “Annette Messager : the cheater” during which La Femme et… was published in Geneva by another artist, John Armleder. Mixing topics from body art to image editing, the book is composed of a series of photographs presenting the made-up female form – the female artist’s naked body – on which interior and exterior, drawing and photographs merge, accompanied by laconic captions. The cheater, notes Annette Messager, “is never idle and is never lacking material as she plays with herself and on herself.” The tone of the book is sometimes moving (“the woman and the operation”), frankly comical (“the woman and the bearded one”), or falsely tragic as in brief sketches (“the woman and death”, “the woman and fear”).
For this faithful republication, the 1975 book was reassembled with the help of the artist and a few images were added.
http://www.editions-dilecta.com/en/books/197-la-femme-et.html