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Claude Cahun Retrospective. Jeu de Paume in Paris

Mónica Boixeda Only-Be, Parisian

The Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris is holding a retrospective of Claude Cahun until 25 September this year. The exhibition, curated by Juan Vicente Aliaga and Leperlier Francisco, is organized by the Jeu de Paume and co-produced with the Art Institute of Chicago and the Virreina Centre de la Imatge de Barcelona. The retrospective devoted to the writer, actress and Surrealist photographer seeks to rescue the iconoclastic nature of her work which is almost unknown. Thus, after 16 years absence from the exhibition halls of France, Cahun’s art returns to the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume to enable younger generations “to discover the work and challenges that this woman had to confront within the society of her time,” said Juan Vicente Aliaga. The exhibition shows 140 works and documents that have been provided by the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Institute of Modern Art Valeriano and the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, plus pieces from a few private collections that have never been exhibited. Lucy Renée Mathilde Schwob, Claude Cahun´s real name, was born in Nantes, France in 1894. Rebellious, anarchistic and revolutionary from a young age, she took the name of her uncle, Leon Cahun. She went on to break one of the taboos of early twentieth century conservative France by openly acknowledging her homosexuality. In 1920 she moved to Paris with her partner, Suzanne Malherbe (known by the pseudonym Marcel Moore), who shared her intellectual curiosity, and began writing for the Mercure de France. Literature, theatre and photography ran through his veins, and she was bursting with ideas for transforming society completely. In 1929 she published her... read more

Maja Bajevic in Madrid

Mónica Boixeda Madrilenian, Only-Be

The Crystal Palace of Madrid´s Retiro Park exposes until October 3rd the solo exhibition of the conceptual Bosnian artist Maja Bajevic. The installation titled continue was elaborated by the artist for the exhibition, and is the first time Bajevic exposes in Spain. At “Continue” Bajevic builds a scaffold, a lonely podium where there is no statue. On top of that structure there are five screens that continuously play a series of videos with a play called Wende, a German word that means “turn” and refers to events that occurred with the fall of the Berlin Wall, with the consequent fall of real socialism. In the video you see people walking, suddenly they stop and turn around. Along with this, machines that produce steam symbolize the era of the Industrial Revolution. During the night slogans are projected on moving steam visiting a century of political life and changes. Vocal solo songs are performed by professional singers and apprentices that can be heard from an installation by the artist. This conceptual work alludes to the fragmented memory of a tumultuous century, where two civil wars, revolutions and holocausts transformed the internal and external boundaries of humanity, creating dramatic twists and just as the name of the expo insinuates: it will Continue In her recurring themes, movement and change, marks her identity derived from personal experiences in the political conflict that led to war and ended former Yugoslavia. Born in Sarajevo, Bosnia in 1967 she saw the stability of her the world brake into pieces, although during the war in Yugoslavia, she lived in Paris. This reason leads Bajevic to transcribe in... read more