Dorothy Iannone

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Dorothy Iannone (* 1933 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American painter , graphic artist , object and video artist . Her main theme is sexual liberation with autobiographical references, which she implements with erotic subjects in sometimes colorful, psychedelic - ornamental "image-writing-sound objects", artist books and video installations .

Life

Dorothy Iannone studied American literature from 1953 to 1957 at Boston University , where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. In 1958 she studied English literature at Brandeis University in Waltham , Massachusetts. In the same year she married James Upham. The couple settled in New York .

In 1959 Iannone began to paint non-representational pictures, which were based on abstract expressionism , but soon turned to representational, erotic themes. During the 1960s she made numerous trips to Europe and Asia with James Upham. In 1961 she successfully sued the prohibition of Henry Miller's works indexed as pornography in the USA . From 1963 to 1967 she and her husband ran the Stryke Gallery in New York. In 1967 she went on a trip to Reykjavík with her husband and Emmett Williams . There she met Dieter Roth . The two began a love affair, as a result of which Dorothy Iannone separated from her husband. In the same year she published a book in which she listed all the men with whom she had shared a night. Together with Roth she joined the Fluxus movement around Robert Filliou , Daniel Spoerri and Emmett Williams, but later distanced herself from Fluxus in a work with the words "I am she who is not Fluxus". In the following years she lived with Roth alternately in Basel , Düsseldorf , London and Iceland . Roth became at times the "male muse " for Iannone, he in turn wrote numerous poems to his lover. At this time Iannone began to paint mythological-ornamental picture stories, the focus of which is her relationship with Roth. In addition, she dealt with the design of artist books. Her main topic will be sexual liberation with partly autobiographical references, but without submitting to feminist - emancipatory dogmas.

At an exhibition organized by Harald Szeemann in the Kunsthalle Bern in 1970, Iannone's works were hidden with adhesive tape because of the provocative portrayal of the genitals , whereupon Iannone and Roth canceled their participation. Iannone's wooden figures with the title People , which show sexual organs, were made in the mid-1960s and were prohibited from exhibiting in Germany and Switzerland until the 1990s. Iannone and Roth separated in 1974, but remained friends until Roth's death in 1998. Iannone moved to the south of France . From the mid-1970s she made video installations, such as I Was Thinking of You from 1975, a sarcophagus- like box with erotic scenes. In 1976 she received a DAAD scholarship for a one-year work stay in Berlin , where she moved permanently. From 1977 to 1979 she led several workshops at the Akademie der Künste . From 1986 she dealt with Tibetan Buddhism . In 1988 she received a grant from the Kunstfonds Bonn Foundation , and in 1994 a grant from the Berlin Senate . Up to the present day she has participated in numerous international exhibitions, for example she was invited to the Berlin Beauties Biennale in 2006 , the Whitney Biennale in New York and in 2007 as "Hidden Treasure" (artist who provided important impulses) to Art Cologne .

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 2014: Dorothy Iannone: Censorship And The Irrepressible Drive Toward Love And Divinity. Migros Museum for Contemporary Art , Zurich
  • 2014: Dorothy Iannone: This Sweetness Outside ot Time. Paintings, objects, books 1959–2014. Berlinische Galerie
  • 1997: Dorothy Iannone - Love is forever isn't it? NGBK , Berlin

Group exhibitions

Public collections

Denmark

Germany

France

Switzerland

literature

  • Björn Roth: Dieter and Dorothy. Their Correspondence in Words and Works 1967-1998 . bilgerverlag 2001, ISBN 3-908010-53-5 .
  • Dorothy Iannone, Lee Lozano , Sabine Folie, Hans-Jürgen Hafner, Gerald Matt (Eds.): Lee Lozano & Dorothy Iannone - Seek The Extremes! Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg, 2006, ISBN 3-938821-54-X .
  • Project group NGBK : Dorothy Iannone - Love is forever, Isn't it? , Exhibition catalog, Berlin 1997 ISBN 3-926796-48-0 .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dorothy Iannone: Getting to Know You. Galerie Steinek , Vienna, March 2008, archived from the original on November 22, 2008 ; Retrieved January 31, 2009 .
  2. ↑ a b c Dorothy Iannone. Frieze Magazine, 2008, archived from the original on February 22, 2009 ; accessed on January 31, 2009 .
  3. ^ Entry on Iannone, Dorothy at the DAAD's Berlin artist program.
  4. ^ Art Cologne 2007: Hidden Treasures - Artists who set the stage. Archived from the original on November 20, 2007 ; Retrieved January 31, 2009 .
  5. ↑ Dorothy Iannone. (PDF; 59 kB) Air de Paris, archived from the original on December 16, 2013 ; Retrieved January 31, 2009 .
  6. ^ Announcement on the exhibition , accessed on August 6, 2014
  7. ↑ BZ Culture Prize 2016
personal data
SURNAME Iannone, Dorothy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter, graphic artist, object and video artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts