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Until 16th May 2010, the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna in Rome is hosting the exhibition Woman: Feminist Avant-garde in the ’70s by Sammlung Verbund in Vienna.

The exhibition in Rome is in collaboration with the Vienna Sammlung Verbund – one of the most important museum collections of contemporary art – and presents a selection of 200 works by 17 artists of seventies who had the courage to deal with issues considered taboo, the body, the female identity, the difference between man and woman, and to question their role through the research of new languages.
That of Rome may be considered a feminist art exhibition-tribute, which aims to draw attention to an issue and a decade still not sufficiently explored.

For the exhibition Woman: Feminist Avant-garde in the ’70s by the Vienna Sammlung Verbund was therefore chosen to present for the first time in Italy a significant selection of the many thematic and chronological works of the Vienna Sammlung Verbund, bringing together internationally renowned artists from Seventies to now: it ranges from early works by Cindy Sherman, made in 1975-76 and still little known, to works by Birgit Jürgenssen, Renate Bertlmann, Annegret Soltau and Nil Yalter, displaying for the first time in our country. The exhibition follows two strands of research: one focuses on the performative and avant-garde feminists, the other based on the study and deconstruction of space.

The exhibition on feminist avant-garde in Rome is an opportunity to explore a very interesting time in history, rich in cultural ferment but also disputes that characterized those years not only in art.

You can take the opportunity to spend a few days in Rome: book your room at the Hotel Caprice, in the city center and very near the site of the exhibition.

Photo by: violarenate