FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: APRIL 6, 2010
Woman in the 21st Century: Margaret Fuller and the Sacred Marriage
The Pierre Menard Gallery
May 23rd –June 20th, 2010
Opening Reception: Sunday, May 23rd, 2010, 6:00pm
Pierre Menard Gallery is pleased to announce Woman in the 21st Century: Margaret Fuller and the Sacred Marriage, a groundbreaking multimedia group exhibition held in conjunction with the Margaret Fuller Bicentennial.
The exhibition runs from May 23rd – June 20th with a reception and celebration of Fuller’s 200th birthday on Sunday, May 23, at 6:00 pm, including a Mask Tale Performance by Suzanne Benton.
What does the female prototype of the 21st century look like? What are her characteristics? How will we recognize her presence in our lives?
Woman in the 21st Century: Margaret Fuller and the Sacred Marriage seeks to answer these questions as it explores the coding and iconography surrounding the re-emergence of the “sacred marriage” (hieros gamos) archetype foreseen by Margaret Fuller in Woman in the Nineteenth Century. “This exhibition is a culmination of a decade spent chronicling a new movement,” says curator Lisa Paul Streitfeld, a former newspaper critic. “I want to share with the public my surprise and delight of Margaret Fuller’s genius in placing the “sacred marriage” archetype into the American canon. She broke through the barriers of time in order to make an empowering mythology real for women.”
Fuller’s trademarked "Conversations" will be revived in the gallery as a method of chronicling the historicity and living presence of this 21st century icon:
June 05, 4pm; Kate Millett The Sacred Marriage in the American Canon
June 11, 7pm; Jessica Lipnack: The Sacred Marriage in the 1960s
June 12, 4pm; Elinor W. Gadon The Sacred Marriage in Antiquity
June 19, 4pm; Aldo Tambellini: The Sacred Marriage in the 21st Century
There will be a Collaborative Performance Painting at the closing reception on June 20, from 2 – 5 pm.
The exhibition will include 32 artists covering a full range of media: Carl Apfelschnitt, Josef Astor, Vincent Baldassano, Suzanne Benton, Dianne Bowen, Dove Bradshaw, Laurel Jay Carpenter, Walter M. Crump, Linda DiGusta, Rikki Ducornet, Harlan E. Gruber, Heide Hatry, Selma Karaca, Renee Kahn, Marni Kotak, Yuliya Lanina, Michael Manning, Kate Millett, Richard Move, Francine McGivern, Aaron Olshan, Tanya Ragir, Grace Roselli, Daniel Rothbart, Carolee Schneemann, Nancy Spero, Tatyana Stepanova, Aldo Tambellini, Marina Tsesarskaya, May Wilson, Martha Wilson and Mark Wiener.
Pierre Menard Gallery 10 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 617-868-2033 pierre@pierremenardgallery www.pierremenardgallery.com
Gallery Director: Andrea Kalinowski
