SCOTINI, Marco; PERNA, Raffaela (eds.)
The Unexpected Subject. 1978 Art and Feminism in Italy
Built upon the female artists that were shown by Mirella Bentivoglio in 1978 at the exhibition Materializzazione del linguaggio, this catalogue re-reads artistic and feminist practices focusing mainly from Italy.
The book, accompanying the same-titled exhibition held at the FM Centre for Contemporary Art, Milan, from 4 April to 26 May 2019, includes works by Marina Abramović, Carla Accardi, Paola Agosti, Annalisa Alloatti, Mathelda Balatresi, Liliana Barchiesi, Mirella Bentivoglio, Valentina Berardinone, Cathy Berberian, Renate Bertlmann, Tomaso Binga, Irma Blank, Diane Bond, Alberti Bundi, Marcella Campagnano, Françoise Canal, Lisetta Carmi, Ela Caroli, Antonietta Casiello, Paula Claire, Mercedes Cuman, Dadamaino, Betty Danon, Hanne Darboven, Agnese De Donato, Agnes Denes, Chiara Diamantini, Neide Dias De Sá, Lia Drei, Anna Esposito, Amelia Etlinger, Maria Ferrero Gussago, Giosetta Fioroni, Simone Forti, Milli Gandini, Rimma Gerlovina, Natal'ja Sergeevna Gončarová, Nicole Gravier, Alberto Grifi, Pat Grimshaw, Bohumila Grögerová, Elisabetta Gut, Micheline Hachette, Ana Hatherly, Rebecca Horn, Sanja Iveković, Joan Jonas, Annalies Klophaus, Janina Kraupe, Ketty La Rocca, Katalin Ladik, Maria Lai, Liliana Landi, Sveva Lanza, Paola Levi Montalcini, Natalia Ll, Lucia Marcucci, Paola Mattioli, Libera Mazzoleni, Gisella Meo, Marisa Merz, Annabella Miscuglio, Verita Monselles, Adriana Monti, Aurelia Munõz, Giulia Niccolai, Anna Oberto, Stephanie Oursler, Anésia Pacheco E Chaves, Anna Paci, Rosa Panaro, Gina Pane, Clemen Parrocchetti, Jennifer Pike Cobbing, Marguerite Pinney, Bogdanka Poznanovic, Betty Radin, Carol Rama, Regina (CASSOLO Bracchi), Cloti Ricciardi, Giovanna Sandri, Suzanne Santoro, Mimma Sardella, Bruna Sarno, Mira Schendel, Carolee Schneemann, Greta Schödl, Eleanor Schott, Mariuccia Secol, Berty Skuber, Mary Ellen Solt, Wendy Stone, Chima Sunada, Salette Tavares, Biljana Tomić, Anna Trapani, Silvia Truppi, Valie Export, Patrizia Vicinelli, Jacqueline Vodoz, Gisela Von Frankenberg, Simona Weller, Francis Widmer, Francesca Woodman; and texts by Ilaria Bussoni, Barbara Casavecchia, Cristina Casero, Leslie Cozzi, Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Silvia Federici, Daniela Ferrari, Jacopo Galimberti, Laura Iamurri, Caterina Iaquinta, Christian Marazzi, Lea Melandri, Raffaella Perna, Marco Scotini, Carla Subrizi, Elvira Vannini, Giovanna Zapperi.
English and Italian texts.
Published by Flash Art, 2019
Exhibition Catalogues / Group Shows / Feminism
