22.11.2018 - 19.1.2019
special project / cooperation with Vienna Art Week
Opening: 22.11.2018, 7 pm
Pin Up Pop Up - Strike a Pose with Hotel Butterfly
jolly and queer show on the opening night
Florian Aschka / Larissa Kopp / Georg Klüver-Pfandtner, Patrick Baumüller, Ivica Capan, Vlasta Delimar, Sandro Dukic, Tomislav Gotovac, Barbara Hammer, Kiki Kogelnik, Katalin Ladik, Evelyn Loschy, Man Ray, Vlado Martek, Veronika Merklein, Giovanni Morbin, Lilo Nein, Sabine Ott, Pablo Picasso, Milija Pavicevic, Selma Selman, Viktors Svikis, Slaven Tolj, Marko Zink
Pinup style - sexy, fun, glamorous and always a little bit cheeky!
Pin me up - Turn me around
Pin me up - Turn me around, exhibition view, galerie michaela stock, 2018
Pin me up - Turn me around, exhibition view, galerie michaela stock, 2018
Pin me up - Turn me around, exhibition view, galerie michaela stock, 2018
Pin me up - Turn me around, exhibition view, galerie michaela stock, 2018
Pin me up - Turn me around, exhibition view, galerie michaela stock, 2018
Pin me up - Turn me around, exhibition view, galerie michaela stock, 2018
Pin me up - Turn me around, exhibition view, galerie michaela stock, 2018
Pin me up - Turn me around, exhibition view, galerie michaela stock, 2018
Pin me up - Turn me around, exhibition view, galerie michaela stock, 2018
Pin me up - Turn me around, exhibition view, galerie michaela stock, 2018
Pin me up - Turn me around, exhibition view, galerie michaela stock, 2018
Giovanni Morbin, Tra vesti mento, 1981, vintage black and white photo, 14,8 x 10,4 cm, photographer: Riccardo Curti
Katalin Ladik, Blackshave Poem, 1978 (Würzburg) performance, silver gelatin print 10 pcs, each 13 x 8,9 cm
Slaven Tolj, Branimir Marković Street Rijeka, 2013, photography, Brayta, 30 x 20 cm, edition: 3 + 2 AP
Pablo Picasso, Sans titre, 13 Mars 1971 II, Suite 156, 1971, original aquatint etching, 23 x 31 cm, edition : 19/20, stamp signature
Florian Aschka / Georg Klüver-Pfandtner / Larissa Kopp, Private Moments with Austria, 2018, 3-part series, photography, digital print, each 30 x 45 cm
Viktors Svikis, full frontal nudity, 2018, drawing, 24 x 17 cm
Viktors Svikis, full frontal nudity 2, 2018, drawing, 21,3 x 25,4 cm
Viktors Svikis, pin down, 2018, drawing, 25,5 x 25,5 cm
Man Ray, Frames from "Emak Bakia", 1926/1975, Gelatin silver print, 17, 4 x 15, 0 cm, Signature, Inscriptions: Signed and inscribed on print, verso
Milja Pavicevic, A-portret, 2005, photography, Lambda print mounted, 80 x 120 cm
Barbara Hammer, Raging Hormones, 1979, collage, 20,2 x 27,8 cm
Tomislav Gotovac, Tomislav Gotovac as Grace Jones, Egoeast Arts and Parts, Zagreb 1986, 50 x 75 cm, photo: Braco Vukelic Cobra
Vlasta Delimar, Fuck Me, 1981, collage (b/w photo, lace, tempera, metal cross, badge), 82 x 64 cm
Vlasta Delimar, Woman has disappeared, 2000, performance (with Milan Bozic), Galerija Gradska, Zagreb
Selma Selman, Balkan, 2016, photography, 50 x 34 cm, edition: 3 + AP
Ivica Capan, Polynesia, Blonde, 2010, collage, 20,6 x 13 cm
Ivica Capan, Blur, 2017, oil painting, 55 x 44 cm
Veronika Merklein, Life-Long Weight-Gaining, 2013, photography, object frame, 130 x 90 cm, photo: Robert Bodnar
Kiki Kogelnik, Sunkist from the series "Women", 1979, colour screen print on paper, 84,9 x 66,5 cm, signed, edition:198/200
Evelyn Loschy entkoppelung, 2012, performance video, stop-motion, 4:3, BW, loop, sound, 1:24 min, edition: 5+1 AP
Marko Zink, innerer Film - Tafel 1, 2018, photography printed on Acrylgas, 72 x 48cm, edition: unique + 2 AP
Patrick Baumüller, Hot legs in Rose-Blossom skirt, 2018, calendar, 30 x 30 cm, signed, edition: 19 + 2 AP
Patrick Baumüller, Hampelmus (Typus Cowgirl), 2008
Vlado Martek, untitled, 2014, collage on vintage poster, 34,5 x 95 cm
Sandro Dukic, White rectangle, 1990, collage painting on newspaper
Lilo Nein, Performancepartitur für eine Fotokamera, 2013, sung version singer: Lena Wicke-Aengenheyster, edition: 3
Sabine Ott, dancer, 2018, photography light box movable
Pin-Up art has a long and rich history and occupies a unique space in feminist history. A Pin-Up is a photo or a painted picture of a pretty young woman with a seductive smile in a sexy pose pinned to the wall. These women have been displayed as ideal feminine figures and sexualized objects of desire. Coquettishly and tightly dressed Pin-Ups navigate between scandal and sexual liberation, longing and sensuality, sharp-nipped at the border between eroticism and art, undoubtedly sexist, but never pornographic. But the "sexy Icons", like all commercial images of the female body, could be objectifying and limiting in that it pressured women to conform to a rigid standard of beauty.
The exhibition at Galerie Michaela Stock explores the ideal image of stereotypical men's dreams of an idealized female body, invented by men and then claimed by women in a new way of thinking.
Pin me up – turn me around deconstructs a sexualized burlesque image of a monster beauty. The exhibition encourages a move away from a one-dimensional view of sexuality encased in heterosexual norms, highlighting social, cultural and aesthetic positions. The exhibition is focused on the presentation of artworks from the realms of performance, painting, graphics, photography, collage, sound and video.
The invited artists from different age and cultural background appropriated familiar images of women and used the body as a powerful weapon against the social and political constructs of gender. For example the photo "Tomislav Gotovac as Grace Jones" documents his naked action 1986. The image was printed in the men's magazine Start. Gotovac was the only male centerfold in the whole history of that magazine.
Works from artists like Katalin Ladik, Barbara Hammer, Selma Selman or Evelyn Loschy can be approached by Georges Bataille's definition: according to him the origin of the erotic lies in the activity of hiding nudity. For example in the performance "Blackshave Poem" Katalin Ladik is shaving herself and simulating nudity in the spectacle of stripping. By substituting black garments for her naked body, she subverts the anticipated outcome and its attendant voyeurism.
Other Artists explore themes of perfection and their destruction and examine the illusion of perfection and it's desirability and regains control over the objectification of the body, taking it beyond erotic demonstration. Proudly, the body is presented in provocative as well as erotically tinged and trivial positions.
VIDEO / opening night / Pin Up Pop Up - Strike a Pose with Hotel Butterfly > here
ARTICLE on the exhibition Pin me up - Turn me around / Jutarnji list, 12.01.2019 > here
PRESS:
Press release: Pin me up - Turn me around
press image 3:
Vlado Martek, o.T., 1992, Collage, 105 x 35 cm, Courtesy: Vlado Martek/ Galerie Michaela Stock
press image 5:
Barbara Hammer, Raging Hormones, 1979, Collage, 20,2 x 27,8 cm, Courtesy: Barbara Hammer / Galerie Michaela Stock
press image 6:
Milja Pavicevic, A-portret, 2005, photography, Lambda print mounted, 80 x 120 cm