Courtesy Dorothy Iannone, Peres Project and Air de Paris; Photo: Hans-Georg Gaul
Dorothy Iannone "Flora And Fauna", 1973, Color silkscreen on paper
Humlebæk: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Free Love and Sexuality by Dorothy Iannone
The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark, is dedicating an extensive exhibition to the US artist Dorothy Iannone. From 25 May to 11 September, it presents the artist's explicitly autobiographical and erotic paintings, which deal with themes such as freedom, free love and liberated sexuality.
May 23, 2022
For six decades, the US artist Dorothy Iannone (*1933) has developed and cultivated an epic and very personal visual language. Drawing on her own life and a wealth of historical references, she pays tribute in her works to free love, ecstasy and the lustful as well as spiritual encounter between lovers. The Danish Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk is dedicating an extensive exhibition to the artist from 25 May to 11 September. Freedom, free love, liberated sexuality and ecstatic union with the other are central themes in the show of works entitled Dorothy Iannone. The themes are based on Iannone's explicitly autobiographical and erotic images. They are often strongly reminiscent of graphic novels. Handwritten texts and images complement each other to tell a story, blunt and humorous, peppered with verbal and visual details. Since the 1960s, Iannone has thus developed a colourful, ornamental visual language that, in addition to paintings and drawings, also unfolds in books and video sculptures, among other things.
Courtesy the Artist, Air de Paris, Romainville and Peres Projects, Berlin; © Dorothy Iannone
Dorothy Iannone "Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire", 1966/67, Felt pen on paper mounted on wood, 36 x 21 x 1,2 cm ahlers collection
Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1933, Dorothy Iannone is a painter, graphic artist, object and video artist. Her personal experiences and love stories form an essential source material for her works. She combines these with a solid foundation of mythological and historical representations of relationships and gender, love, sex and ecstasy. In doing so, Iannone draws from a wide variety of sources: They range from antiquity and Icelandic sagas to Christianity, the Baroque and Indian tantra to world literature and film history.
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