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| Square Memories, 1965 ink, glass, glass lens, wood, stones, paper collage, graphite, felt-tip pen, painted canvas and painted wood construction 18 5/8 x 18 5/8 x 6 1/2 inches / 47.3 x 47.3 x 16.5 cm |
Do try to catch "the first public exhibition of Bauermeister’s earliest mature body of work, a series of abstract, psychedelic pastels dating to the 1950s... ..Bauermeister’s limitless imagination ... would soon nurture the environment where the first Fluxus happenings took place between 1960 and 1961 in her Cologne studio. The avant-garde that gathered there included John Cage, Christo, Merce Cunningham, Nam June Paik, David Tudor, and others who would go on to form a vanguard scene of musicians, dancers, and performance artists who thrived in New York throughout the 1960s, a milieu now known as Neo-Dada" at Michael Rosenberg Gallery, 100 11th Ave at West 19th Street, til January 20th.
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| Fuck the System (Dürer Madonna), 1972 18 5/8 x 18 5/8 x 6 1/2 inches / 47.3 x 47.3 x 16.5 cm |
“I could never execute the Madonna picture if I titled it in German—the work is named Fuck the System—that
doesn’t work in German but in American English it’s more casual, and
the Madonna personifies ‘fuck the system.’ She is the first iconic,
revolutionary feminist whose immaculate conception we still celebrate
today; she is a glimpse into the future, she is a woman of the future…”
—Mary Bauermeister
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