Cover Sara Jimenez, fevered tropics (11), 2020, paint and inkjet prints, 14.5 x12 inches (Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Manila)
Sara Jimenez, fevered tropics (11), 2020, paint and inkjet prints, 14.5 x12 inches (Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Manila)
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Abstractionism is more than just a few brushstrokes and colours. This month, the Metropolitan Museum of Manila explores it from the female lens
This March, The Metropolitan Museum of Manila presents Wild, an exhibition that showcases some of today’s most exciting women abstractionists whose works are inspired by nature. Curated by Kathy Huang, managing director of art advisory and special projects at Jeffrey Deitch, Wild questions the visual similarities and conceptual differences between artists whose practices span the East, West and the in-between. With the advent of social media and an increasingly globalised art world, abstract art is revitalised on a much larger scale—giving abstractionists a platform to tell their stories.
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Above Kathy Huang, curator of ‘Wild’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila (Photo: GOAT/Luca Venter for GREATEST 07)
Kathy Huang, curator of ‘Wild’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila (Photo: GOAT/Luca Venter for GREATEST 07)
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In the exhibition catalogue for Nature in Abstraction, on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1958, curator John I. H. Baur said “Nature is obviously the ultimate source of visual experience,” painting the idea that not all abstract art is purely about form or colour.
For decades, many have attempted to address gender inequality in the art world through women-focused exhibitions, gallerists, and more. This exhibition allows women abstract artists, often ignored in the male-dominated global art world, to be finally appreciated.
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Above Wild (Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Manila)
Wild (Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Manila)
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Participating artists include Sarah Awad, Christine Ay Tjoe, Andrea Marie Breiling, Cecily Brown, Katarina Caserman, Héloïse Chassepot, Nicole Coson, Corinne De San Jose, Wonhee “Whee” Delgado, Mandy El-Sayegh, Camilla Engström, Francesca Enriquez, Jadé Fadojutimi, Katharina Grosse, Jennifer Guidi, Han Bing, Angela Heisch, Donna Huanca, Jin Jeong, Sara Jimenez, Antonia Kuo, Jane Lee, Li Hei Di, Li Yanjun, Kylie Manning, Jo Messer, Elizabeth Neel, Dawn Ng, A’Driane Nieves, Mariana Oushiro, Lauren Quin, Pinaree Sanpitak, Mary Weatherford, Zhang Zipiao.
The exhibition opens on March 20.
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