Veiled and Direct. Remarks About the Feminine Worlds of Maria Pinińska-Bereś and Ewa Partum Cover Image

Zawoalowana i bezpośrednia. Uwagi o feminoświatach Marii Pinińskiej-Bereś i Ewy Partum
Veiled and Direct. Remarks About the Feminine Worlds of Maria Pinińska-Bereś and Ewa Partum

Author(s): Andrzej Kostołowski
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Visual Arts
Published by: Akademia Sztuk Pięknych im. Eugeniusza Gepperta we Wrocławiu
Keywords: feminism; masculism; corporeality; pink;

Summary/Abstract: The proposals of art by the internationally known: Maria Pinińska-Bereś (1931–1999) and Ewa Partum (b. 1945) have been emerging since the 1960s and 1970s as the successive steps driving through the shell of masculine domination in art. Owing to the power and coherence of the liberation endeavors, both artists have worked out their own forms of creativity. Through the individuality of feminine approaches they manifested in their statements some sort of model message, and at the same time a uniqueness in the way of using artistic means of expression. For the sculptures and “performeress” Pinińska-Bereś entangled in the multi-level dualism of the patriarchal domination and neo-avant-guarde freedom, the method depended on showing psychoanalytically filtered depths through the veiled object allusions. For the relatively early emancipated and direct in her strong performances conceptual artist, Ewa Partum, the fusion of corporal presence with critical ideas was, and still is, important.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 1 (25)
  • Page Range: 108-135
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: Polish