“Women Artists they struggle to build themselves topics artistic act in front of you patriarchal art who looked after them objects artistic” advances University of Alicante professor Juan Antonio Roche and editor of the publication The making of the stolen subject. Art made by women in Alicante (1950-2020)offering a broad perspective on the transformation process, Women artists of the province in 70 years in search of her identity and space as a female subject.
Featured book This Monday at 20:00 At the UA Headquarters in Alicante on San Fernando street, UA Broadcasting Service in cooperation with Alfons El Magnanim Institution and the Valencian Community Museums Consortium. Theorizing the modernization of Alicante artists in another book since 1950, Roche’s publication analyzes the work and figure of a total of 288 pages. 24 artists from Alicante the common features of different generations or the issues they deal with in the construction of their worldview.
from established artists such as Polin Laporta, Juana Francés, María Chana, Carme Jorques, Elena Jiménez, Iluminada García-Torres and Ana Teresa Ortega women with an artistic career in this century Cristina de Middel, Olga Diego, Rosell Meseguer, Rosana Antolí, Susana Guerrero, Perceval Graells or Inma Femenía. Along with them also Isabel Rico, Mª Dolores Mulá, Luisa Pastor, Elena Aguilera, Mónica Jover, Dolores Balsalobre, Cristina Ferrández, Aurelia Masanet, Pilar Sala and Silvia Sempere Described by 24 other experts, 6 men, 18 womenand, according to Roche, his work is framed on one of four thematic axes: internalization, troubled man, nature, the threads and intrigues that build life and the world.
Roche, for example, in the introduction to the book ” aesthetic freedom and philosophical defines María Chana; freedom imagination Cristina de Middel; the expression free Isabel Rico; freedom of the subject in nature to Cristina Ferrández; freedom seams To Aurelia Masanet; freedom Flight Olga Diego in man; the liberating function that the creative process produces for Ana Teresa Ortega; and freedom in general, to Polín Laporta.”
The editor points out that these are “common themes in art made by women, adapting to what other women in the world are doing,” and points out that some of the main transformations that creators went through, which formed their roots. break with formalism established, modernization the inclusion of art in informalism, new materials and supportsconsideration of the joyful and suffering body, multiculturalism and globalization.
“Female artists, Deconstructing the dominant male gaze step by step in art and they are on the way to construct their own feminine themes. The dilemma today is seeing how they set up their businesses and how they represent women; as an artistic subject from her feminine gaze, as an object of representation away from the gaze given by men in art, fear and desiresays Roche, “women artists face not only a tremendous task to construct themselves as artists, but also be political, social or civic subjects something he saw as his “Herculean task”, helping to build a better society on equality with men”.