"Look into my eyes" Andréhn-Schiptjenko at Mitterrand-Cramer, Geneva 17.03.11 - 06.05.11 Opening March 17th, 2011 (6-9 pm)
Annika von Hausswolff Martin Jacobson Brad Kahlhamer Marilyn Minter Julie Roberts Mika Rottenberg Xavier Veilhan Cajsa von Zeipel
Andréhn-Schiptjenko is pleased to announce "Look into my eyes", an exhibition the gallery has been invited to curate at Mitterrand + Cramer, Geneva. The exhibition is the first from a series of invitations made to prominent international galleries to curate a show with the artists they represent.
The idea of these invitations first came when, in 2006, Mitterrand+Cramer transformed their activity to focus on art advisory. Hosting various gallery choices and directions within the same exhibition space, collaborating openly with other galleries and sharing impressions on the works, offering a public glimpse of the choices Mitterrand+Cramer can operate for its clients, ...... all of these wishes co-exist through these invitations. The concept of the invitation as well as it's imposed title lead Andréhn-Schiptjenko to a specific selection of works and artists around the image of femininity as perceived through concepts such as a male gaze versus a female experience, how the two are informed by one another and, occassionally, how the tables are turned. The title Look into my eyes is as ambigous and impossible to pin down as the issue at hand – at once defiant and demanding, ordering or begging. While potentially both confrontational and romantic it commands a response of some sort. With this in mind a selection of artists and specific works have been made that in very diverse ways can be seen as interpreting the issue of women being – or not – nature to man’s culture.
