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The Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Sevilla is exhibiting a feminist art group show titled simply “We.”
In 1993, the former Museum of Contemporary Art of Sevilla-integrated today in the CAAC-wondered why there were no women artists in its collection, a question which had been posed some 20 years before by American feminist artists: Why do the country´s most prestigious museums have such a low proportion of women in their exhibition halls?
Since then, sufficient time has passed to see that these attitudes of public denunciation and have made a difference. Thanks to a thorough review of art history, radical cultural shifts, and scholarship by feminist researchers, the systematic exclusion female presence in the art world is slowly becoming a thing of the past.
This group show organized by the CAAC and curated by Maria Luisa Lopez and Juan Antonio Álvarez Reyes will remain open until September 26 and has two specific precedents. One, the exhibit 100% exposure is quite local and proposed as a way of responding to those criticisms from 1993.
The other precedent is an international exhibition is titled elles@centrepompidou recently at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, which exhibited work by some of the most important artists of contemporary art of the twentieth century XXI.
CAAC has put together a tour of the works of numerous local and international artists than now form a part of their collection. So names like Hannah Collins, Valie Export, Carmela García, Cristina Garcia Rodero, Victoria Gil, Nan Goldin, Cristina Iglesias, Carmen Laffón, Zoe Leonard, Ana Mendieta, Pepa Rubio, Carmen Sanz, Soledad Sevilla, Aleksandra Mir, Ruth Morán, Marta María Pérez, and Martha Rosler make for an interesting tour of art by women. Visitors to apartments in Seville can enjoy the tour.
