Orlan
Orlan (born May 30, 1947 in Saint-Étienne as Mireille Suzanne Francette Porte ), original spelling ORLAN, is a French artist . She is an important representative of body art and performance art and the founder of so-called Carnal Art . She lives and works in Los Angeles, New York and Paris.
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Orlan has been using his own body as a material for artistic activity since 1978. Your face will be changed through plastic surgery or aesthetic surgery . Orlan is looking for role models from art history (Venus, Diana, Europe, Psyche, Mona Lisa ), famous female figures who are present in the collective image memory. She insists on the right to change one's own body, since technological changes in society provide opportunities to break through the standardized ideal of women (beautiful, young, slim) and to demand the right to shape one's own body according to one's own ideas. With the interpretation of meat as a material of art, she tries to stimulate a debate about these taboo topics.
In 1989 she painted a paraphrase of Gustave Courbet's picture L'origine du monde ( The Origin of the World ) and named it L'origine de la guerre ( The Origin of War ). The composition and perspective of the picture are exactly based on Courbet's, only it is not a female nude, but a male one, and the vulva facing the viewer has been replaced by a phallus. Among other things, the work was shown in an exhibition in Besançon to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War .
Quotes
- “Now I can see my own body open without suffering. I want to see myself in the depths of my bowels, a new mirror stage. "
- “I can see my lover's heart and his beautiful drawing has nothing to do with the symbolic fuss of ordinary drawing. - Chérie, I love your spleen, I love your liver, I adore your pancreas, and the line of your thigh bone excites me. "
Awards (selection)
- 2007 gold medal from the city of Saint-Étienne;
- 2006–2007 research fellowship at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles
- 2003 Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the French Ministry of Culture
- 1999 Arcimboldo Prize for Digital Photography, Paris; First Prize Griffelkunst-Vereinigung Hamburg ; First prize 'Moscow Festival of Photography'
- 1992 FIACRE scholarship for the Lallit Kala Académie , Madras, India
- 1989 FIACRE research grant in India
- 1984 Award for the exhibition "Grand Canal Video, étude documentaire" -n ° 2 "La lumière baignant les Anges baroques" -n ° 11 "Mise en scene pour un grand fiat" Locarno Festival , Switzerland
- 1967 Labor Grant First Prize, Saint-Étienne, France
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2018–2019 Feminist Avant-garde / Art of the 1970s SAMMLUNG VERBUND Collection, Vienna , The Brno House of Arts, Brno, Czech Republic.
- 2017–2018 Feminist avant-garde of the 1970s from the Verbund collection, Vienna . ZKM , Karlsruhe, DE.
- 2017 WOMAN. Feminist avant-garde of the 1970s from the Verbund collection , MUMOK , Vienna.
- 2015 Feminist avant-garde of the 1970s. Works from the Verbund collection, Vienna , Hamburger Kunsthalle .
References
literature
- CJ O'Bryan, Carnal Art: Orlan's Refacing. ISBN 0-8166-4323-7
- E. Hartney, Orlan: Carnal Art. ISBN 2-08-030431-3
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Orlan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Porte, Mireille Suzanne Francette (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 30, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Etienne |